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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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Candy Curtsies ~ #MayWriting #poetry

29 Tuesday May 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in May Writing, Poems, Poetry

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You could tell by the look on her face
It was something she’d never embrace

Mama promised, if she got it right
A sweet surprise, would be her delight

Dressed up, in white lace and pink flowers
She tried to do it, for hours and hours

Lying down in the grass, quite exhausted
This whole curtsy deal had her daunted

Angered, indeed, by her now dirty knees
She’d rather lie there, than forever be taunted

 

May Writing Prompt:  Candy curtsies – Day 29/31

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Hieroglyphics ~ #poetry #NaPoWriMo #AprilWriting

10 Tuesday Apr 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in #NaPoWriMo, April Writing, Poems, Poetry

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#AprilWriting, #NaPoWriMo, #poetry, #writingprompt, dorindaduclos.com, filament, frustration, imagination, light bulb, National Poetry Month, Night Owl Poetry, poems, thoughts


Can’t figure out how to read this
Perhaps it is hieroglyphics

A bunch of designs, fill the page
There’s nothing more specific

Should I sit here, on my behind
Wondering how the cavemen did it

Or make my way into the city
For the local museum’s exhibit?

Yes, I shall go down to the place
Where the writing’s on the wall

Stop, and ask the curator there
What it’s all about, this scrawl

But instead of helping me out
He shows me to a room, quite small

It’s where, he says, they secretly hide
The writer, named Nean Derthal

 

 

 

April Writing Prompt:  Hieroglyphic hineys – Day 10/30

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Filaments of Frustration ~ #NaPoWriMo #AprilWriting

08 Sunday Apr 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in #NaPoWriMo, April Writing, Poems, Poetry

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My brain, like a frustrated light bulb

Is a filament, constantly in need of a current

To make it spark imagination, I flip a switch

Let it glow for hours, until at last, it burns out

Try to tap it, hoping for the light to return

For the spark to, once again, kindle my thoughts

Regeneration, as the cycle begins again

 


 

 

April Writing Prompt:  Filaments of frustration – Day 8/30

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A Puzzling Feeling – #poetry #NovemberWriting

29 Wednesday Nov 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in November Writing, Poems, Poetry

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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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A Bit of an Update ~ The Days Ahead

05 Tuesday Sep 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in My Thoughts

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dorindaduclos.com, essential tremors, frustration, health, illness, Night Owl Poetry, patience, Sjogren's Syndrome, support, Transverse Myelitis, update

Good evening/morning, dear friends,

I’ll try not to ramble, but please forgive me if I do  🙂

Most of you who have been following my blog for some time know how upside down my life has been over the past year and a half.  My daughter had been in and out of the hospital for most of 2016 and a part of the beginning of 2017.  She suffers from Sjogren’s Syndrome, among other things, and she’s only 27.  It breaks my heart to see someone so young struggling to get through a day that others think nothing of.  For those of you who pray, please keep her in your thoughts.  Thank you.  🙂

As for me, well, that’s another can of worms.  I suffer from Transverse Myelitis and was recently diagnosed with “essential tremor“.  To say this freaked me out, is putting it mildly.  There is no cure.  They will get progressively worse.  So, if I miss commenting or liking your post, please don’t hold it against me.  My days are filled with trying to take care of everything else, including beginning to pack as we’ll need to sell our home.  There usually isn’t time to take care of me, but looks like I won’t have much choice.  It’s getting harder to type, so I will eventually need to switch to my Dragon software and go voice to type.  I’m so frustrated over all of it.

I love you all, and always appreciate your support, from the bottom of my heart.  I haven’t forgotten you.  Just be patient with me.  I’ll figure it all out.  I’m not a quitter by any means.  I only know how to fight for what I want and this is a battle I am sure to win!!

~ Dorinda

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