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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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Night Owl Poetry – Dorinda Duclos

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On the Crown Of Thorns – #poetry #NaPoWriMo #Easter2022

17 Sunday Apr 2022

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Room for One – #NaPoWriMo – #AprilWriting – #poetry – #Shadorma

25 Thursday Apr 2019

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Tiny bird

Nestles in snuggly

Perches high

On prickles

Weaving room enough for one

Contented alone

 

April Writing Prompts – Purposeful pinches – Day 25/30

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Barbed Brickles ~ #poetry #AugustWriting

09 Thursday Aug 2018

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Barbed and brittle, branches reach

Clawing their way, from the ground

Forgotten, against a wall of stone

No flowers will bloom, no life around

He left them to die, for no reason at all

The only feeling for him, now, is scorn

This human one, who cares not for them

For him, they have blossomed in thorns

 

August Writing Prompt – barbed brickles – Day 9/31

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Desperate Obligations – #shortstory #FebruaryWriting

13 Tuesday Feb 2018

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It was the same routine every year. The hopelessness she felt always reared its ugly head the day before everyone was supposed to find their soulmate. She hated Valentine’s Day, though she wasn’t always this way. She remembered a time when red roses were her very favorite. Now, she preferred the thorns over the soft velvety petals. He had ruined it for her, made her feel less than perfect, and given her background, it was so easy to do, then vanished from her life, without a trace, just like all the others. That’s when she decided men weren’t worth the trouble.

Until that one day, when Mr. Perfect showed up at the office, with a big smile, chatting away with the receptionist. He caught her staring, smiled, causing her to blush and sit down in her chair. It felt like so long since she had a reaction like that, she didn’t know what to do. Looking up, he was standing there, still grinning. She licked her lips, then caught herself and cleared her throat. He was a smooth talker and eventually talked her into meeting for dinner on Wednesday night, both seemingly forgetting what day it was.

When the red roses arrived at her desk on Valentine’s Day, she purposely pricked her finger, watching the blood ooze. She licked the red liquid, savoring the flavor. Reading the card, she smiled. He would never know what he was in for. After all, red, was her favorite color.

 

 

February Writing Prompt: Desperate Obligations – Day 13/28

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Thistles and Thorns ~ #poetry #DecemberWriting

02 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in December Writing, Poems, Poetry

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On the sweetest of flowers

Lies the cruelest device

The stem of a rose

Has a thorn not so nice

But that’s nothing compared

To the plant of the thistle

One touch of a spike

Makes your skin start to bristle

Beware of their beauty

Exotic and raw

When you least expect it

It’s your blood that they draw

 

Writing Prompt – Thistles and Thorns – Day 2/31

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