30 Friday Apr 2021
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Can you believe it’s the last day of #NaPoWriMo?? National Poetry Month doesn’t last long enough! Thanks for visiting and reading my poem-a-day. It feels really good to be writing again. ❤
How can tomorrow
Already be May?
I’ve not left this branch
Not even to play
Surely, time
Has escaped me
I guess I’ll just stay
29 Thursday Apr 2021
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Lights that shine
In the night
Illuminate
To his delight
28 Wednesday Apr 2021
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Shout out to Annette Rochelle Aben for planting the seed. Here is the sequel to An Old Bridge.
Darkness now surrounds you
You can feel your body falling
There’s nothing to hang on to
Arms and legs, about, are sprawling
Your eyes cannot adjust, no light
You’re blinded, tumbling fast
Praying this is just a dream
And you’ll wake up, at last
You yell for help, hoping
Someone can hear your call
But all you hear are echoes
Of your voice, against the wall
It seems your fear was justified
Never should have taken the leap
The weight of all your troubles
Sent you to your eternal sleep
For when you fall into the abyss
You’ll, forever, slumber deep…
©2021 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by Peter H from Pixabay
27 Tuesday Apr 2021
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A ramshackle old bridge
Stands here, in disrepair
Do you dare to cross it?
Will you make it over there?
To the other side
That you can barely see
Into the forest clearing, where
Sunbeams kiss the trees
To your soul it’s calling
Do you take the first step?
Fear builds deep inside you
Trepidation intercepts
You move in closer, slowly
Then back away, afraid to cross
Pick up a nearby stone
Into the river, you do toss
But no sound comes from it
Just a thud, onto dry land
Tis then you suddenly realize
You’ve had the upper hand
Stepping upon the boards, you sigh
“How could I be frightened of THIS?”
Then one breaks beneath you
And you fall… into the abyss…
©2021 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
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26 Monday Apr 2021
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Tossed about
By the curse of the sea
The crew, in peril,
Could not break free.
The demons held tight,
Never letting go
Poor little ship,
Thrown about, to and fro.
Damaging waves
Thrashed about the bow
Men, hanging on,
But they didn’t know how
To stop the water
From coming aboard
Surely, someone
Had caused this discord
No time to wonder
No time to blame
The rocks, getting closer
Held each of their names
One by one,
They disappeared
Voices, now silenced
It’s what they had feared
They never did find
This vessel, lost at sea
Surely, evil prevailed
Twas the Devil’s apogee
©2021 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
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