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#TBT ~ Imagination – #poetry

16 Thursday Feb 2017

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A light down a darkened path
beckons me to follow
As I approach
it flickers
making me stop, wait

Again it calls
I continue forward
not knowing what lies beyond
the blackness that settles around me

A light so bright, yet not
I cannot see past it
My eyes play tricks
seeing only what my mind allows
Fantasy settles in

It lures me
and I walk, following
unaware that I am pursuing
My darkest dreams
my biggest fears

I turn around, afraid
and find nothing
but the darkness in which I began
Yet sounds and shadows engulf me
in a sensory overload

And I freeze, unable to comprehend
all that is there
and not
Only to realize my existence
in my own imagination

 

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

Afraid to Fly ~ #poetry of #life

16 Thursday Feb 2017

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Alone and lost amid verdant ground,

High upon the wood, I’m found, looking

For ones who look like me, the ones

Who form my family, for without them,

I’d just gaze about, wondering

What my life’s about, afraid to climb

To soaring heights, afraid that maybe

I just might, fail to spread my wings and fly,

Fail to find the reason why, I was left here,

By myself, a lonely bird, upon a shelf

 

Poem & Photo ©Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved

Emerging – #poetry of #seasons

13 Monday Feb 2017

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I was freezing

Covered in icy tears,

Droplets, clung to

My cheeks, held on

For dear life, the heart

Of my body, chilled

To the marrow, breathless, idled

My arms, cold against the air

Yet, the winter warmed, as

Spring, emerging, awakens me,

Until, once again, I’m alive

 

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#TBT ~ Questions – #poetry of #life

09 Thursday Feb 2017

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I do not understand
Why time passes by
Yet stands still

Why a moment can be fleeting
Yet we are caught in it

Why we hate to love
Yet love to hate

Is it that we are
Afraid of feeling the heartache
Of time gone by
But unafraid of causing the heartbreak
Without a moment’s loss

Afraid of defining our own worth
Within ourselves
But unafraid to define others inadequacies
As they stand before us

How can you say you are living a life
For the moments, the time
The love and the hate
The heartache and the heartbreak
Yet claim to have no life worth living
I do not understand

 

©2014 Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
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Solemn Hope ~ #poetry of #faith

30 Monday Jan 2017

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I am no sleeping beauty

My finger I will not prick

I’m looking for the light of God

To forget this darkness, thick

But the thorns do not allow me

To find that peaceful place

So I wander through the night

To find His sacred grace

Where I can lay my head, to rest

No spindles, to make me bleed

Just close my eyes, in solemn hope

And let my dreams concede

 

 

©Dorinda Duclos All Rights Reserved
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