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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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Misgivings ~ #poetry

18 Thursday May 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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Life seems quite empty now
The pages glued together
Unable to turn to chapter two
I’m lost in the land of never

Not like Peter, no, not he
This place was something more
A hollowed piece of a broken heart
Swept away, like the ocean shore

You took the shattered parts
And flung them to the side
Tossed away my feelings
Cared nothing for my pride

I tried so hard to forget you
No matter how deep the pain
Finding myself beside the window
I cry alone, again, with the rain

Your flowers, laid so carefully
On the rocks so far below
Your way of saying goodbye to me
Funny, I was the last to know

I’ve lost the will to carry on
But they say, I must go on living
And finally come to grips, the facts
This simply was my misgiving

 

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People Watching ~ #poetry of #life

16 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry

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#freeverse, #poetry, coffee shop, din, dorindaduclos.com, electronics, hours, Night Owl Poetry, people, poems, Unaware, watching, writing

I sit, watching, as they go about their day

Never looking up to see the world, nose glued

To whatever electronic device they happen to have

A woman trips, but picks up her pace,

Even more hurried, two others sit, chatting,

Seemingly unaware they are not alone

The din of an otherwise empty coffee shop

Is music to my thoughts, and as the hours pass,

I realize, I am just like them

 

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The Love We Make ~ #RomanticTuesday #poetry of #love

16 Tuesday May 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in Poems, Poetry, Romantic Tuesday

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I want to watch the moonlight

Fall gently across your face

I want to feel your gentle touch

As your fingers softly trace

These feelings that surround me

The warmth, I feel inside

The joyfulness, around me

Where safely, I abide

Wrapped within your arms

From night until we wake

Sated forever, and always

With the love our body’s make

 

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Slay the Dragon ~ #poetry of #faith & #courage

15 Monday May 2017

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#poetry, belief, closet skeletons, courage, demons, dorindaduclos.com, dragons, faith, Night Owl Poetry, poems, Slay the Dragon, writing

Authors Note:  We all have those demons hidden away.  This poem reflects the triumph over the evil.  Words in boldface, at the end of the poem, are the partial lyrics to the song “Slay the Dragon”, written by my dear friend, John Kooch.  Used with Permission.

Darkness hides in closets, deep

Awakens, when you’re fast asleep

Lurking in the corners, where

It roams about without a care

Closing in, around your bed

This demon lies, inside your head

Don’t let him get the best of you

Fight! With everything that’s true

“In the dark, behind closet doors
I’ve got mine, I know you have yours….
Slay the dragon, all the courageous are blessed
Slay the dragon, until there are no dragons left”

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Five Friends ~ #shortstory

15 Monday May 2017

Posted by Dorinda Duclos in creative writing, short story

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disappearance, dorindaduclos.com, friends, girls, lunch break, Night Owl Poetry, pizza, short story, teenagers, writing


They walked in together, five friends, joking about, most likely on a lunch break. Their destination, a pizza place, next to the coffee shop I had plopped myself in. I watched as they playfully pushed, randomly threw punches at each other’s faces, the typical teenage thing. Or was it? Five friends went in. Only four came out.

Based on an actual event….

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