A Child’s Dream – #dark #poetry – #Senryu – #poetrychallenge

10 Wednesday Jul 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Colleen's Weekly Poetry Challenge, Poetry, Senryu

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This week’s words for Colleen’s fabulous poetry challenge are Pretty and Ugly. Remember, synonyms only!! Check out Colleen’s blog to find which forms of poetry are acceptable for this challenge. Have fun!

Written as a Senryu, my synonyms are Angelic and Hideous.

Hideous faces

In the darkness of the night

Taint angelic dreams

Colleen’s 2019 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 135: Pretty & Ugly

Through the Darkness ~ #freeverse #darkpoetry

12 Tuesday Mar 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in free verse, Poetry

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Night falls
I am weary
Heavy lids close
Still the light
Shimmers through
The darkness
Imaginary figures
Move, sway
Shadows weave
An endless tale
Within corners
Of the room
Sheets rustle
Lashes flutter
Semi-closed
A glimpse
Into the
Void
Dreams
Take over
Nightmares
Consume
Still the light
Shimmers through
The darkness

Shadows of the Night ~ #dark #poetry

26 Tuesday Feb 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in dark poetry, Poems, Poetry

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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

Raw ~ #Nonet #PoetryChallenge #darkpoetry

22 Tuesday Jan 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Colleen's Weekly Poetry Challenge, dark poetry, Nonet, Poems, Poetry

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Colleen’s challenge for us this week are the words Cold and Storm. Remember, you can only use synonyms to write your poetry!

Written as a Nonet, my synonyms are Raw and Disturbance.

Such disturbance, I have never felt
Penetrating, my inner thoughts
Festering, this wound, bleeding
Revealing, my self-doubt
Seizing, the moment
Until at last
Defeated
I am
Raw