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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

~ "The silence of the night awakens my soul"

Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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Bleeding Thoughts – #dark #poetry – #NaPoWriMo – #AprilWriting

06 Tuesday Apr 2021

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in #NaPoWriMo, April Writing, dark poetry, Poetry

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Darkened room, no light to spare
She likes to sit alone and stare
Across the way, without a care

Her thoughts, indeed, do wander

No curtains hang on window panes
So many broken, let in the rain
And wash her reality down the drain

Reminiscing, moments squandered

Her hands, unsteady, though try she might
With cursed pens, no ink, spill white
As words, reflected, become quite trite

Why paper bleeds, she dare not ponder

Bending down to grasp the red
She finds her mind, uneasily shred
Is she now one, among the dead?

A thought, of which she grows fonder

 

April Writing Prompts – Cursed pens and bleeding paper

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Finders Keepers – #dark #poetry – #AugustWriting

05 Monday Aug 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in August Writing, dark poetry, Poetry

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Cluttered, empty spaces, found, but left unkempt

Emotion thrown, strewn about, in moral contempt

Answers, unquestioned, doubt exuded, within

Why on Earth am I? And where shall I begin?

To put the broken pieces, puzzled, back together

No help, those, who only dwell in fairest weather

White clouds follow, over me, pours down the rain

Why is it, no matter what, praise becomes disdain?

Received, but never sent, animosity finds its space

However small, to penetrate, a sacred inner place

To smash the dreams, so broken, and overrun

Now I see where I am. And why I have begun.

 

August Writing Prompts – Finders keepers

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No End in Sight – #dark #poetry

27 Saturday Jul 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in dark poetry, Poetry

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#poetry, dark, depression, dorindaduclos.com, lost, Night Owl Poetry, poems, sadness, writing


I know not where it is, I should turn

As thoughts inside, begin to churn

An acid, meant to truly burn

A helpless moment, of which I yearn

*

To cast away, the thoughtless words

From a hateful voice, it’s so absurd

To know that I’m not really heard

My patience, buried, now interred

*

Into hopelessness, I need to fight

To end this horrid, dreadful plight

That I endure, both day and night

For where there seems, no end in sight

 

 

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By the Lake – #dark #poetry #Shadorma

17 Wednesday Apr 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in dark poetry, Poetry

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Visitor

She waits by the lake

He returns

Unaware

She returns, into the depths

Dragging him along

 

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Shadows of the Night ~ #dark #poetry

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in dark poetry, Poems, Poetry

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#darkpoetry, #poetry, depression, dorindaduclos.com, dreams, laughter, mockery, Night Owl Poetry, poems, shadows, visions, writing


I see you every evening, when I close the light

Darkness in my doorway, lurking in the night

What is it you’ve come for, what is it you need?

You don’t answer, but my sleep, you do impede

I try to close my eyes a bit, yet, I can still see

Your shadow lurking in the night, making fun of me

But I can’t hear your laughter, I can’t hear your voice

I try to block you out of my mind, as if I have a choice

You can leave now, go on, and just let me go to sleep

So I can dream of shadows…

…that around my bedroom, creep

 

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