15 Friday Apr 2022
Posted in #NaPoWriMo, Poetry
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Can barely keep my eyes open
But sleep won’t come tonight
No matter how I try, no luck
I can’t shut out the light
18 Saturday May 2019
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#poetry, caffeine, coffee, dorindaduclos.com, dreams, insomnia, inspirations, Night Owl Poetry, poems, sleep, tired, wide awake
I really should be fast asleep
It’s funny, I’m not tired
The night has taken over me
The light of day, expired
There’s a spider crawling up my wall
He doesn’t notice me at all
Perhaps he’s uninspired
By the fact that I’m not tired
My brain is running on caffeine
It really should be in a dream
Is that truly what I desire?
Cause I’m really not that tired
I close my eyes and try to rest
Still, visions dance before me
Why do I even bother?
Now where’s that cup of coffee?
Sweet liquid gold is most required
Oh, did I mention I’m not tired?
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02 Tuesday Apr 2019
Posted in #NaPoWriMo, free verse, Poetry
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#NaPoWriMo, #poetry, April 2019, dorindaduclos.com, Exhausted, insomnia, National Poetry Month, Night Owl Poetry, poems, wide awake, writing
It’s one AM and I should be sleeping
But of course, dear Auntie Insomnia
Has come to visit, and this time, stays
Far too long as far as I’m concerned
She needs to find a place of her own
One that isn’t in near proximity of me
I can feel my eyelids getting heavy
And the physical being of my body
Collapses, but the mind, oh that mind
Refuses to obey a command for rest
Melatonin escapes through pores
Oozing and weeping, until it is free
And I am left wide awake, exhausted
Hours tick by, the click of the clock
Hanging on my office wall, annoys
A reminder it doesn’t sleep either
Rather, it rallies me to do something
Maybe I’ll play a computer game
Yes, of course, more stimulation
In an overstimulated brain, smart
Real smart solution to this problem
I have long awaited the sandman
But even he has moved onto simple
Tasks he need not hover over
Ones who know the secret, kept
Like good little minions, far away
From the likes of me, the other one
Who simply cannot figure out why
She remains wide awake, exhausted…
©2019 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Photo via Pixabay CC0
10 Monday Sep 2018
Posted in free verse, Poetry
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#darkpoetry, #freeverse, #poetry, dark, darkness, desire, dorindaduclos.com, dreams, insomnia, life, night, Night Owl Poetry, night terrors, nightmare, poems, sleepless, writing
Sleep escapes me
Dare I close my eyes?
Only to fade into the darkness, that
Suffocates my soul, terrorizes my mind
Thrashes against my being, until I
No longer fight it, but welcome it
Draw it further into my heart, let it
Rip me apart, tear at me, and I
Locked in a cocoon of sweat, succumb
To the sweetness that is the night
The passion and desire of the dark
Knowing, eventually, I will awaken…
I will, won’t I?
©2018 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
Photo via Pixabay CC0
28 Thursday Jun 2018
Posted in Poems, Poetry, Throw Back Thursday #TBT
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#poetry, #TBT, dorindaduclos.com, Inquietude, insomnia, moonless, night, Night Owl, Night Owl Poetry, owl, poems, sleep, starlight, Throwback Thursday
It’s 3AM and I’m still awake
I walk to the window and pull back the drape
And stare at a moonless starlit sky
And wonder aloud, why is it I
Cannot find the sleep I so desperately crave
These thoughts overtake me, to a point where I cave
And slink back to my desk like a cat on the prowl
After all, it is why I am called the Night Owl
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