28 Saturday Mar 2020
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#poetry, dorindaduclos.com, earth, haiku, nature, Night Owl Poetry, sheep, sorrow, teardrops, tears, writing
We are merely sheep
Languishing in the teardrops
Of a weeping Earth
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16 Monday Dec 2019
Posted in Poetry
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#poetry, abuse, domestic violence, dorindaduclos.com, hell, life, Night Owl Poetry, pain, poems, tears, writing
She cries the tears
Of a thousand years
Unbeknownst,
To those around her.
Held in her heart,
Yet so far apart
Only anguish and sorrow
Surround her.
She can still feel the pain,
And then once again
It disappears,
As if it never happened.
But it returns soon enough,
And though she is tough,
Her heart remains
Broken and blackened.
Afraid of the day,
He comes back her way
She hides,
Where no one can find her.
Deep inside her own shell,
She’s living in hell,
And he’ll not be afraid
To remind her.
For once, they had loved,
Til he pushed and he shoved,
She could no longer
Keep it secluded.
The scars she now bore,
Her own personal war,
A soul stripped of life
And denuded.
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12 Tuesday Nov 2019
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#freeverse, #poetry, #poetrycommunity, despair, dorindaduclos.com, Night Owl Poetry, poems, sorrow, tears, writing
Tears flow like water
Pouring over rapids
Rough and raging
Briefly slowing until
They hit the rocks again
Determined to wear down
All that lies beneath
Like a cascading waterfall
Tumbling down into despair
They disappear….
Merely a drop
In the sea of sorrow
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11 Tuesday Jun 2019
Posted in Etheree, June Writing, Poetry
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#JuneWriting, #poetry, child abuse, Children, dorindaduclos.com, Etheree, fear, help, Night Owl Poetry, poems, tears, writing, writing prompt
Cry
Sweet child
Let them see
Innocent eyes
Not understanding
Let tears flow freely down
I will shelter you from harm
And never let you fall from grace
For their light is much too dark to shine
But, your light shines much too brightly to dim
Author’s Note: Nearly 700,000 children are abused in the U.S annually. An estimated 683,000 children (unique incidents) were victims of abuse and neglect in 2015, the most recent year for which there is national data. About four out of five abusers are the victims’ parents. A parent of the child victim was the perpetrator in 78.1% of substantiated cases of child maltreatment. (Info via National Children’s Alliance). If you know of a child who is being abused, please…say something. Calls can be anonymous!
June Writing Prompt – And to the eyes of an innocent there was nothing odd about him/her – Day 11/30
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23 Saturday Feb 2019
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#poetry, angels, broken hearted, comfort, dorindaduclos.com, haiku, Night Owl Poetry, poems, tears, writing
Ethereal tears
Weep softly for the broken
Comfort saddened hearts
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