T.J. Darc
@tjdarc.bsky.social
Doomed poet, nihilistic ponderer overshadowed by existential dread, scribe of little distractions and big confrontations. Writing, art, expression.
Blind fools of fate
enslaved by circumstance
Life is a fiddler
and we all must dance
#poem #poetry #micropoetry
enslaved by circumstance
Life is a fiddler
and we all must dance
#poem #poetry #micropoetry
August 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Blind fools of fate
enslaved by circumstance
Life is a fiddler
and we all must dance
#poem #poetry #micropoetry
enslaved by circumstance
Life is a fiddler
and we all must dance
#poem #poetry #micropoetry
In no sense #innocent
Pretenses are centered
Lies spent like dollars and cents—
Maintenance expenses.
Postulated propositions
Presented as imperatives
With a limitless impotus for violence
Incitement of riots incentivized
Repression the weapon of choice—
Can’t call it out without a voice.
#vss365
Pretenses are centered
Lies spent like dollars and cents—
Maintenance expenses.
Postulated propositions
Presented as imperatives
With a limitless impotus for violence
Incitement of riots incentivized
Repression the weapon of choice—
Can’t call it out without a voice.
#vss365
Good Morning/Good Day #vss365 Community:
Our July 16, 2025 #prompt word of the day is #innocence.
Innocence (noun): the state, quality or fact of being innocent of a crime or offense. Lack of guile or corruption; purity.
Have a great day & happy writing!
#vss365 #prompt #innocence
Our July 16, 2025 #prompt word of the day is #innocence.
Innocence (noun): the state, quality or fact of being innocent of a crime or offense. Lack of guile or corruption; purity.
Have a great day & happy writing!
#vss365 #prompt #innocence
July 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reposted by T.J. Darc
~Tomorrow~
Found in the thrift store
Comfortable like #vellichor
Well-worn phrase
Whispers #echolalia
Isn’t it #selcouth
How half-truths
Get recycled like #karma
Tomorrow—
Tomorrow, I’ll try harder.
This is an #elegy
For the me I’ll never be.
#vss365 May 2-6 #poem #poetry
Found in the thrift store
Comfortable like #vellichor
Well-worn phrase
Whispers #echolalia
Isn’t it #selcouth
How half-truths
Get recycled like #karma
Tomorrow—
Tomorrow, I’ll try harder.
This is an #elegy
For the me I’ll never be.
#vss365 May 2-6 #poem #poetry
May 6, 2025 at 10:46 AM
~Tomorrow~
Found in the thrift store
Comfortable like #vellichor
Well-worn phrase
Whispers #echolalia
Isn’t it #selcouth
How half-truths
Get recycled like #karma
Tomorrow—
Tomorrow, I’ll try harder.
This is an #elegy
For the me I’ll never be.
#vss365 May 2-6 #poem #poetry
Found in the thrift store
Comfortable like #vellichor
Well-worn phrase
Whispers #echolalia
Isn’t it #selcouth
How half-truths
Get recycled like #karma
Tomorrow—
Tomorrow, I’ll try harder.
This is an #elegy
For the me I’ll never be.
#vss365 May 2-6 #poem #poetry
#Free #newsletter preaches
The latest #promotion
#Return to our #website please
So we can put our #plan in motion
Smuggle in #additional fees
Before the cart #conversion
The price of #brand loyalty
You pay to prove your devotion
April 22-30 #vss365 #poetry #poem
Thanks for the words, Eileen!
The latest #promotion
#Return to our #website please
So we can put our #plan in motion
Smuggle in #additional fees
Before the cart #conversion
The price of #brand loyalty
You pay to prove your devotion
April 22-30 #vss365 #poetry #poem
Thanks for the words, Eileen!
#vss365 #prompt for April 30, 2025 #additional
Thank you for playing along on my half of the month of April. It’s been great to see all of interaction. The last word is additional. Because the best way to market your books is to write another one. So, get cracking.
Thank you for playing along on my half of the month of April. It’s been great to see all of interaction. The last word is additional. Because the best way to market your books is to write another one. So, get cracking.
May 1, 2025 at 7:16 AM
#Free #newsletter preaches
The latest #promotion
#Return to our #website please
So we can put our #plan in motion
Smuggle in #additional fees
Before the cart #conversion
The price of #brand loyalty
You pay to prove your devotion
April 22-30 #vss365 #poetry #poem
Thanks for the words, Eileen!
The latest #promotion
#Return to our #website please
So we can put our #plan in motion
Smuggle in #additional fees
Before the cart #conversion
The price of #brand loyalty
You pay to prove your devotion
April 22-30 #vss365 #poetry #poem
Thanks for the words, Eileen!
There’s a #place in me
I sometimes go
A quiet corner
To punch the walls
To break the windows
To rake my fingernails
Across the floorboards
And pull out my hair
And spit
And cry
And scream into the void
And feel
Everything
Until I feel nothing at all
There’s a place in me
I sometimes go
#vss365
I sometimes go
A quiet corner
To punch the walls
To break the windows
To rake my fingernails
Across the floorboards
And pull out my hair
And spit
And cry
And scream into the void
And feel
Everything
Until I feel nothing at all
There’s a place in me
I sometimes go
#vss365
April 22, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Saving lives commodified;
Produced at two dollars a vial
Marked up to 350—
Survival is a luxury.
Suffering the prime condition,
The exploitation of millions
Conducive to a healthy economy;
That’s the #cost of oligarchy.
#vss365 #poem #poetry #SocialJustice #SocialCommentary
Produced at two dollars a vial
Marked up to 350—
Survival is a luxury.
Suffering the prime condition,
The exploitation of millions
Conducive to a healthy economy;
That’s the #cost of oligarchy.
#vss365 #poem #poetry #SocialJustice #SocialCommentary
April 21, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Saving lives commodified;
Produced at two dollars a vial
Marked up to 350—
Survival is a luxury.
Suffering the prime condition,
The exploitation of millions
Conducive to a healthy economy;
That’s the #cost of oligarchy.
#vss365 #poem #poetry #SocialJustice #SocialCommentary
Produced at two dollars a vial
Marked up to 350—
Survival is a luxury.
Suffering the prime condition,
The exploitation of millions
Conducive to a healthy economy;
That’s the #cost of oligarchy.
#vss365 #poem #poetry #SocialJustice #SocialCommentary
The #product is profit
Due process is compromised
Comprised of priced promises
Proprietary punishments concocted
To prosecute the persecuted;
Prized workhorses on company time
The Confederacy is well and alive
Complicit in the prison-industrial complex
Exchanging lives for nickels and dimes.
#vss365
Due process is compromised
Comprised of priced promises
Proprietary punishments concocted
To prosecute the persecuted;
Prized workhorses on company time
The Confederacy is well and alive
Complicit in the prison-industrial complex
Exchanging lives for nickels and dimes.
#vss365
April 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A Poem about Oranges
Rind and pith
Peel away
Exposing supple
Citrus flesh
Fingers find
The fruit’s furrow
Membranes melt
Sublime #segmentation
Nectar drips
From lip to chin
Tangy tart
Delicious delight
#vss365 #poem #poetry
Rind and pith
Peel away
Exposing supple
Citrus flesh
Fingers find
The fruit’s furrow
Membranes melt
Sublime #segmentation
Nectar drips
From lip to chin
Tangy tart
Delicious delight
#vss365 #poem #poetry
April 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
A Poem about Oranges
Rind and pith
Peel away
Exposing supple
Citrus flesh
Fingers find
The fruit’s furrow
Membranes melt
Sublime #segmentation
Nectar drips
From lip to chin
Tangy tart
Delicious delight
#vss365 #poem #poetry
Rind and pith
Peel away
Exposing supple
Citrus flesh
Fingers find
The fruit’s furrow
Membranes melt
Sublime #segmentation
Nectar drips
From lip to chin
Tangy tart
Delicious delight
#vss365 #poem #poetry
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy devised a social media platform that harvests people's personal data, sells it to data brokers, who license it out to #marketing companies, so that Revlon can push ads to insecure teenage girls on Instagram.
#vss365
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy devised a social media platform that harvests people's personal data, sells it to data brokers, who license it out to #marketing companies, so that Revlon can push ads to insecure teenage girls on Instagram.
#vss365
April 17, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This little piggy went to market,
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy devised a social media platform that harvests people's personal data, sells it to data brokers, who license it out to #marketing companies, so that Revlon can push ads to insecure teenage girls on Instagram.
#vss365
This little piggy stayed home,
This little piggy devised a social media platform that harvests people's personal data, sells it to data brokers, who license it out to #marketing companies, so that Revlon can push ads to insecure teenage girls on Instagram.
#vss365
iPad baby sitting
In the middle
Of the walkway flicking
His thumb across the screen
Not caring whose way he’s in
Strangers passing by
No acknowledgment
Or correction from parents
Makes me wonder why
I should love the world I’m living in
When everyone is so indifferent
#poetry #poem #writing
In the middle
Of the walkway flicking
His thumb across the screen
Not caring whose way he’s in
Strangers passing by
No acknowledgment
Or correction from parents
Makes me wonder why
I should love the world I’m living in
When everyone is so indifferent
#poetry #poem #writing
April 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
It’s all #pressure
until the #thread snaps,
pack your #life #time
full of #joy and #grief,
like #luggage
for a long #distance trip.
It’ll be left in the #end
at the terminal of #death,
like a #dream forgotten
in the #noise of waking,
as you #bounce
to a new #beginning.
#vss365 April 1-15 #poetry
until the #thread snaps,
pack your #life #time
full of #joy and #grief,
like #luggage
for a long #distance trip.
It’ll be left in the #end
at the terminal of #death,
like a #dream forgotten
in the #noise of waking,
as you #bounce
to a new #beginning.
#vss365 April 1-15 #poetry
April 15, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thalassophobia
How long I’ve labored against the ebbing tide,
Believing myself to be a creature of the land.
#micropoetry #poetry #2lines
How long I’ve labored against the ebbing tide,
Believing myself to be a creature of the land.
#micropoetry #poetry #2lines
February 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Thalassophobia
How long I’ve labored against the ebbing tide,
Believing myself to be a creature of the land.
#micropoetry #poetry #2lines
How long I’ve labored against the ebbing tide,
Believing myself to be a creature of the land.
#micropoetry #poetry #2lines
At the #nexus between thought and reality
The pen becomes the #thoroughfare
The flight of fancy precipitates the #cyclone
#vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #3lines
The pen becomes the #thoroughfare
The flight of fancy precipitates the #cyclone
#vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #3lines
February 8, 2025 at 12:11 AM
At the #nexus between thought and reality
The pen becomes the #thoroughfare
The flight of fancy precipitates the #cyclone
#vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #3lines
The pen becomes the #thoroughfare
The flight of fancy precipitates the #cyclone
#vss365 #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #3lines
Even trees revere the seasons--
The well-heeled deny the rising seas,
Unheeding the weeping mother,
For another dollar well invested;
Our most important decisions
Hinge on the whims of little men
In tall positions.
The well-heeled deny the rising seas,
Unheeding the weeping mother,
For another dollar well invested;
Our most important decisions
Hinge on the whims of little men
In tall positions.
February 7, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Even trees revere the seasons--
The well-heeled deny the rising seas,
Unheeding the weeping mother,
For another dollar well invested;
Our most important decisions
Hinge on the whims of little men
In tall positions.
The well-heeled deny the rising seas,
Unheeding the weeping mother,
For another dollar well invested;
Our most important decisions
Hinge on the whims of little men
In tall positions.
Born In Captivity
The price of life #rockets
Bosses brag about
All-time-high profits
While handing out peanuts
We’re well-trained elephants
Oblivious to the weight of us
Strength in numbers diminished
by individualistic thinking;
'Til the wilderness that made us
is less than an inkling.
#vss365
The price of life #rockets
Bosses brag about
All-time-high profits
While handing out peanuts
We’re well-trained elephants
Oblivious to the weight of us
Strength in numbers diminished
by individualistic thinking;
'Til the wilderness that made us
is less than an inkling.
#vss365
February 2, 2025 at 7:02 AM