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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

Category Archives: November Writing

No Spirit of Comfort – #poetry #NovemberWriting

30 Thursday Nov 2017

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She comes calling in the middle of night

A ghostly figure, the witch of the light

She appears in the state room, there, alone

All that is heard is the sound of her moan

She’s no spirit of comfort, oh no, not she

Only there for herself, a lost memory

Long forgotten, the time passes by

Still she remains, though no one knows why

Perhaps she is looking for one who is true

Perhaps she is looking, for someone like you

Beware if you see her, run if you can

She’s sure to grab you, or any old man

Hear the sound of her broom, swept on the floor?

Now is the time, to run for the door

Haunting the home, she kept long ago

All she has left, is her eerie shadow

One that will hide, in bedknobs, with delight

Patiently waiting, to whet her appetite

 

Writing Prompt – Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Day 30/30

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A Puzzling Feeling – #poetry #NovemberWriting

29 Wednesday Nov 2017

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#NovemberWriting, #poetry, #writingprompt, blue skies, boredom, dorindaduclos.com, earth, frustration, life, Night Owl Poetry, outdoors, poems, puzzles, writing


I can’t seem to finish this puzzle
The blue of the sky has me bored
I guess I give up too quickly
Cause back in the box, it gets stored

There must be a way to get through this
Wait! Some of the pieces don’t fit?
How could I totally screw this up?
Blue is blue, isn’t it?

I sigh in frustration, or boredom
Not quite sure what it is that I feel
I need a new hobby to entertain me
Something with color, that’s real

Leaving my ennui behind me
I journey out to the place I adore
Forgetting about silly old puzzles
When my Earth gives me so much more

 

Writing Prompt – The Art of Boredom – Day 29/30

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Ceiling Wax – #poetry #NovemberWriting

28 Tuesday Nov 2017

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Why on earth would I wax the ceiling?
Is the paint up there so badly peeling?

I look up, and to my own eyes
It’s only then do I realize

Ragged pieces, hang and flutter
The cobwebs hide the messy clutter

What shall I do, I can’t stand by
Oh, why must ceilings be so high?

Perhaps, I could try, sealing wax
That’s one sure way to hide the cracks

So, when people look up, all they’ll see
Are the pieces now stuck, to the ceiling and me

 

Writing Prompt – Ceiling Wax – Day 28/30

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Never Ending Sweetness – #poetry #NovemberWriting

27 Monday Nov 2017

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How sad, the pile of sugar cane
That fell like drops of heavy rain
Blocks of white, what a sight!
Here we go again!

It happens every time, I fear
They never make it to my cup
I open up the sugar bowl
Miss, then have to tidy up

I keep an endless supply
I really don’t know why
I’m diabetic, but quite ascetic
Of this, I can’t deny

I hope one day, dear Stevia
You’ll come in my favorite shape
But until then, I surrender to
The sugar cube, my great escape

 

Writing Prompt – Neverending sugar cubes – Day 27/30

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Fractured Figures – #poetry #NovemberWriting

26 Sunday Nov 2017

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It is that time in life

When we are no longer agile

We bend, merely to break

That time, when we fight, only

To fall apart, back into the earth

Splintered pieces of who we were

Fractured figures, once grand in stature

Lying silently, among the moss and dirt

 

Writing Prompt – Fractured Figures – Day 26/30

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