The Silence is Deafening – #poetry of the #lost

30 Thursday Jan 2020

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“You okay?” He asks,
“Swell”, my reply,
While wistfully staring,
And wondering why

He’d bother to ask,
Does he really care?
Or is it just habit,
Because I am there.

Time spent together,
In silence, creeps by.
No matter how much,
I just no longer try

To engage conversation,
From one, far away,
Who turns off the chatter,
Doesn’t hear what I say.

Perhaps it is me,
Who doesn’t quite hear
The words, left unsaid,
Though, the meaning is clear

So I bury myself,
In a place, tucked away
Where the silence is deafening,
But the Lord hears me pray.

Into the Abyss – #haibun – #senryu – #poetry challenge

10 Friday Jan 2020

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Colleen's Weekly Poetry Challenge, Poetry

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Colleen’s poetry challenge for this week is Poet’s Choice. I chose to write a Haibun/Senryu.

Through the darkness of morning, a shrill sound breaks the silence. I am startled, groggy, finally realizing it’s the telephone ringing. I answer to hear apologies for waking me, as she rambles on about another place. She doesn’t care for where she is. She only knows she has to move.

I cannot go through this again. The last time nearly buried me. Still, I feel myself sinking further down, into that abyss, with no hope of seeing the light again.

Self-preservation
My anomaly exposed
Battles for the win

Colleen’s 2020 Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 159, #Poet’sChoice

I’ve Aged – #poetry

25 Wednesday Sep 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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#poetry, courage, dorindaduclos.com, dreams, fight, illness, mental health, Night Owl Poetry, poems, writing

Lines, once hidden,
Have grown bolder now;
No way to hide them,
Can’t disavow.

Months of worry,
This illness claimed;
To live with this,
A horrid change.

Takes courage to fight,
The strange, unknown;
A weakness,
I must not condone.

Make time to rebuild,
No reason to preclude;
Dreams, tucked away,
Need be, pursued.

Not sure where I’ll land,
Nor at what stage;
But this much I know,
I have surely aged.

Finders Keepers – #dark #poetry – #AugustWriting

05 Monday Aug 2019

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in August Writing, dark poetry, Poetry

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#AugustWriting, #darkpoetry, #poetry, blame, dorindaduclos.com, doubts, mental health, Night Owl Poetry, nightmare, nightmares, poems, searching, writing, writing prompt

Cluttered, empty spaces, found, but left unkempt

Emotion thrown, strewn about, in moral contempt

Answers, unquestioned, doubt exuded, within

Why on Earth am I? And where shall I begin?

To put the broken pieces, puzzled, back together

No help, those, who only dwell in fairest weather

White clouds follow, over me, pours down the rain

Why is it, no matter what, praise becomes disdain?

Received, but never sent, animosity finds its space

However small, to penetrate, a sacred inner place

To smash the dreams, so broken, and overrun

Now I see where I am. And why I have begun.

August Writing Prompts – Finders keepers

That Empty Space ~ #poetry #dark

02 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in dark poetry, Poems, Poetry

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#darkpoetry, #poetry, alcohol, dorindaduclos.com, drugs, forgotten heros, homeless, life, mental health, Night Owl Poetry, poems, PTSD, veterans, War, writing

Life offers no comfort, to the ones who came back lost

Those whose minds, were taken, but really, at what cost

Trying to find the place, where last they knew their names

In a country that misunderstands, and never takes the blame

Locked inside, their restless souls, unable to assimilate

Homeless, lying in the street, oblivious to their fate

The drug of choice, so many, as they try to ease the pain

I pray to God, that someday, they’ll come back home, again

Smiling, gladly welcomed, by those they left behind

No longer in that empty space, that lingers, in their mind

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The Silence is Deafening – #poetry of the #lost

Into the Abyss – #haibun – #senryu – #poetry challenge

I’ve Aged – #poetry

Finders Keepers – #dark #poetry – #AugustWriting

That Empty Space ~ #poetry #dark

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