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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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Satanic Mother – #dark #poetry

08 Friday Oct 2021

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Halloween, Poetry

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Fire burns
Without a flame
A face within it
Has no name

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The Forest Kept Falling – #poetry #destruction

18 Wednesday Aug 2021

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poetry

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#poetry, California, destruction, dorindaduclos.com, evil, fire, flames, forest, Night Owl Poetry, poems, United States, writing

All was still, there was no breeze
Perhaps the storm had vanished
No rustling sound, heard from the trees
Be gone, they said, you’re banished

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The Blame – #poetry of an #owl

07 Saturday Nov 2020

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poetry

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#poetry, careless, danger, dorindaduclos.com, fire, forest, forest fire, human, man, nature, Night Owl Poetry, owl, poems, writing


The night falls
More quickly these days
In silence,
Draped in a choking haze

Outside, an owl
Screeches my name,
What is he saying?
What does he claim?

That I took the stars
And blackened the sky,
Says the moon doesn’t shine
And he wants to know why

Hear his cry,
Ear splitting, so unnerved
Surely this raptor
Is somewhat perturbed

Still I cannot see,
What he sees, in the dark
An ebony field,
Laid barren and stark

From the one thing
That has forsaken his land
The strike of a match,
By a human hand

He has lost his home,
His place to hide
His family, no longer
By his side

Taken down in a hail
Of smoke and flame
The owl, he weeps,
And I am to blame…

 

Author’s Note: Seven new large fires were reported 11/5/2020, three in Idaho, two in Kansas, and one each in Minnesota and Montana. Nationally, 36 large fires have burned 2.8 million acres. (source: National Interagency Fire Center).  Before you flick that lit cigarette, or leave a campfire unattended and burning, think about how many lives you could be destroying, both wild and human.

©2020 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Image by Jean van der Meulen from Pixabay
Image by Ylvers from Pixabay
Combined by me

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A Fire in the Sky – #poetry

04 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poetry

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#poetry, devil, dorindaduclos.com, fire, humanity, night, Night Owl Poetry, Phoenix, poems, sky, writing


There’s a fire in the sky,
A blaze in the night;
The phoenix has risen,
A harrowing sight.

Out of the ashes,
She burns like a flame;
Dare not touch her,
You’ll not be the same.

Anger has plagued her,
She’s out on a tear;
No mercy does she hold,
You better beware.

She’ll scald like acid,
Her touch is sure death;
Like a funeral pyre,
She’ll steal your last breath.

Coveting daylight,
She blocks out the sun
Engulfing, surrounding
There’s nowhere to run.

As she savages the land,
With a spark she does maim
Sad to say, we have only
Us humans to blame….

 

**Authors Note:  The incredible picture above was taken by my friend Sharon.  This was the sky, down the shore in NJ, last night.  Can you see the face in the fiery clouds? I chose to believe it was a phoenix, although I must admit it looks more devilish…

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Photo by ©Sharon Woodruff All Rights Reserved. Used with Permission.

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On Australia’s Fires – #haiku #poetry challenge

16 Thursday Jan 2020

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Haiku, Poetry, Ronovan writes

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#poetry, #RonovanWrites, Australia, bush fires, dorindaduclos.com, fire, haiku, nature, Night Owl Poetry, smoulder, subdued, wildlife, word prompt


Fire does smoulder

While life battles against it

Til it is subdued

 

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #288 Smoulder & Subdued

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