18 Tuesday Dec 2018
Posted in FOWC with Fandango, Poetry
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#Fandango, #FOWC, baubles, Christmas, dorindaduclos.com, memory, Night Owl Poetry, ornaments, treasure, writing
Every bauble on the tree, holds a special memory
Each one we carefully hang, both round and square
It’s the wonder of the year, with loved ones ever near
All these Christmas treasures, we are sure to share
FOWC with Fandango – Treasure
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18 Tuesday Dec 2018
Posted in Colleen's Weekly Poetry Challenge, Poems, Poetry, Tanka
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#poetry, #tankatuesday, Colleen's Weekly Poetry Challenge, dorindaduclos.com, fly, Night Owl Poetry, poems, poetry challenge, Serenade, sing, soar, synonyms only, Tanka, writing
Colleen was kind enough to give us the words for this weeks challenge, even though she started her Yule break! Thank you, Colleen ❤ The words this week are Fly and Sing. Remember, you can only use synonyms to write your poetry!
Written as a Tanka, my synonyms are Soar and Serenade.
Gliding in the sky
A small bird does serenade
The tree it calls home
Soaring above the green leaves
Admiring from afar
Colleen’s Weekly Poetry Challenge
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18 Tuesday Dec 2018
Posted in December Writing, Poems, Poetry
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#DecemberWriting, #shortstory, blade, blood, dorindaduclos.com, knife, murder, Night Owl Poetry, perfect murder, writing, writing prompt
The night seemed colder, as the day grew older
Had he been planning his revenge all this time?
Feeling a bit unsteady, unsure if he was ready
Still, he knew he had planned the perfect crime
Over by the door, hearing footsteps on the floor
Finally, she came home, from her day at work
A long awaited moment, a kiss, was his bestowment
And that’s when everything went quite berserk
He never saw the blade, seems he had been played
She turned the tables, on his own deadly scheme
Beads of sweat, replaced by blood, he landed with a thud
As she walked away, she smiled, with an evil gleam
December Writing Prompt – Droplets of sweat fell to his lap as the blade glistened – Day 18/31
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17 Monday Dec 2018
Posted in Poetry, Ragtag Daily Prompt
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#poetry, #RagtagDailyPrompt, #RDP, bird, dorindaduclos.com, halcyon, kingfisher, nesting, Night Owl Poetry, poems, solstice, Winter, winter solstice, writing
She makes her nest upon the water
When winter solstice comes to call
Calms the ocean, silences the wind
Ever elusive, this halcyon, so small
She sleeps among the rippling waves
Then flies away, we know not when
And so we wait until the time is right
For this wondrous bird, to return again
Ragtag Daily Prompt – Halcyon
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17 Monday Dec 2018
Posted in My Thoughts
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#mythoughts, blogsm Reader, dorindaduclos.com, frustration, malfunction, Night Owl Poetry, WordPress, writing, Yahoo
Most of us do things from our phones these days. But what do you do when your phone won’t cooperate? Here’s my dilemma. I get a lot of emails from the bloggers I follow on WordPress. I have a Yahoo account they go to. At certain times during the day, every email that comes through doesn’t allow to like or comment on a blog post. It tells me I need to log in (which I am) and when I try again, it still won’t let me do anything. Is it Yahoo or WordPress causing this?
The posts I get at 2AM, which are all the digests, I have no trouble with, unless I try to open them at 10AM. Then, you guessed it. It says I’m not following the blogger and I need to log in.
Does anyone else have this trouble? I don’t always have time during the day to read blogs, so if I’m sitting in a doctor’s office, or worse yet, the inspection station line, I want to be able to do my blogging!! Now, you’re probably thinking, why doesn’t she just use the reader? Because not all of you show up in it!!! It’s terrible. Reminds of Facebook. You see the same 5 or 6 bloggers and the rest are lost in word land.
So…any ideas, tips, rescues, anything at all?? I’m really getting annoyed about this whole mess. I just want to be able to read everyone’s blogs!!
