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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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The Lost Feathers ~ #poetry

25 Sunday Jun 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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Imagine the stories, these feathers must hold
Now wasted, laying here, on the ground
I wonder exactly, who lost these grand pieces
I find myself looking around

The ones in the trees, singing merrily
Can’t be them, not one is perturbed
So who does this plumage belong to?
This quandary, it has me disturbed

Then suddenly, I see him there
His blue outshines the rest
A jay, among the other birds
Feathers missing from his breast

Still he struts with the best of them
Unaware he’s missing his tufts
He flies away, back to his home
With himself, he is quite chuffed

If you look on the left of the bird (your right in the pic), you can see where he lost the feathers, after a scuffle with another jay.

 

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As Night Falls ~ #TheDailyPost #illusion

24 Saturday Jun 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry, The Daily Post

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dorindaduclos.com, haunting, illusion, night, Night Owl Poetry, poems, secrets, shadows, The Daily Post, word prompt, writing

It approaches
Lingering shadows
Filling the blackness
Haunting illusions
Filling empty spaces
Surrounding the innermost
Profound secrets
Hiding in the night

 

The Daily Post – Illusion

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Helping ~ #DailyHaikuChallenge #poetry

24 Saturday Jun 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Haiku, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Challenge

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#DailyHaikuChallenge, #Haiku365, #poetry, animals, baby, boss, dorindaduclos.com, elephants, haiku, helping others, kindness, life, mama, Night Owl Poetry, poems, poetry challenge, writing


When life has you stuck

Give it a nice, gentle push

Show it who is boss

 

Daily Haiku Challenge ~ Day 235/365

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The Mirror Reflects ~ #poetry

24 Saturday Jun 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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#poetry, despair, dorindaduclos.com, life, mirror, Night Owl Poetry, poems, reflections, sin, writing


Locked inside this pane of glass

The world is just outside my grasp

No one seems to see me here

I’m lost forever, this I fear

Stuck inside, this isolation

There is no hope, for my salvation

For those that I have sinned against

This is how I’m recompensed

Kept hidden, though I know not where

The mirror reflects, my own despair

 

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The Same ~ A Fable

23 Friday Jun 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Fiction

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branches, dorindaduclos.com, fable, family, Fiction, lesson, moon, moral, Night Owl Poetry, trees, writing

Author’s note:  I blame the lack of sleep for this unusual piece, now added to my collection of fiction.  Thank you for suffering along with me and my odd sense of writing  😉


“You’re embarrassing me”

“Me? Have you taken a good look at yourself?”

“Whatever do you mean?”

“Really, must you two always bicker about the same thing?”

“Well, she looks awful!”

“I do not, you do”

And as the father treed sighed, listening to the two women trees bicker over whose hair looked better, the moon quietly watched. He had heard it all before. Though he knew the barren branches of the trees would never be tamed, he continued to shine on them, a light to illuminate their differences, a glow to show them they were, indeed, the same.  Beautiful.

 

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