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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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Anniversary – #VJsWeeklyChallenge #Haibun #Cinquain

23 Tuesday Apr 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Writing Challenge

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#haibun, #poetry, Cinquain, dorindaduclos.com, encouragement, life, living, love, Night Owl Poetry, poems, two dads, VJs Writing Challenge, writing


An anniversary, another date on a calendar already filled with them. And still we celebrate, or mourn, or both at the same time, if that’s even possible.

The end of the year is a rocky one for our family. My husband’s birthday is November 4th. The same day his father passed away, at the age of 55. I try to do what I can to make the day happy for him, and at the same time, honor my father-in-law’s passing. He was very much a dad to me when my own father, aged 57, passed a mere five months after Neil and I married.

We spent a week with my dad in Florida, as part of our two week honeymoon, and for that I will be forever grateful. It’s like he knew he was leaving soon, and getting his house in order while I was there. He passed away on New Year’s Eve 1985, one day after we spoke and said we’d be calling to wish each other a great year ahead. I never had that chance. Instead, I was wakened by a phone call at 1AM telling me he was gone.

I suppose we all have memories of loved ones who have passed. Some may not impact us as much as others, while the really significant ones hit hard.

My father–in-law encouraged me to be a writer. He himself was a published author, a Faulkner Scholar and a Professor of English. I can only hope I am honoring his legacy and making him proud. My dad taught me how to live life. He had more friends than I can ever count, and everyone loved him. I hope I am, also, honoring his vision of living.

Two men

Whose time has passed

Leave behind two children

Encouragement to carry on

Honored

 

V.J.’s Weekly Challenge #45: Anniversary

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New Adventures ~ #poetry #FOWC

28 Friday Dec 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in FOWC with Fandango, Poetry

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#Fandango, #FOWC, adventure, dorindaduclos.com, life, light, living, new heights, New Year, Night Owl Poetry, writing


Let’s soar to great heights, start an adventure

This life is ours, one that no one can censure

The New Year’s ahead, new paths, new horizons

As the sun sets west, tis our light that’ll be rising

 

FOWC with Fandango – Adventure

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Life can be Easy ~ #poetry #FOWC

20 Thursday Dec 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in FOWC with Fandango, Poetry

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#Fandango, #FOWC, different, dorindaduclos.com, easy, hard, ice skating, life, living, Night Owl Poetry, playing, snow, snowman, writing, yard


Life could be as easy, as making a snowman in the yard

Or playing in the fallen snow, and skating on the pond

But somehow things are different, and life can be so hard

Just remember to keep living, in the now and far beyond

 

FOWC with Fandango – Easy

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#TBT ~ Questions – #poetry of #life

09 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry, Throw Back Thursday #TBT

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#poetry, #TBT, afraid, dorindaduclos.com, hate, heartache, human, life, living, love, Night Owl Poetry, poems, questions, Throwback Thursday, time, what, who, why


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

 

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Lost Among The Living

08 Saturday Feb 2014

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Death, My Thoughts, Poems, Poetry

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They walk among us
Shrouded figures in black hooded cloaks
With glistening eyes no one can see
A fierce determination no one can feel

Asking again,
“Is my journey not over
What keeps me here
Someone please answer”
But no one can hear
“God, can you help me
I can only feel fear”

Pleading one last time
Into darkening skies
They lower their heads
And silently cry…

Convicted and cursed
Now broken and ungiving
They are simply shadows
Forever lost among the living

 

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