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Born To Nag – A Duodora 

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Born To Nag

The endless drone
Of someone who can nag
And nag again more
What pleasure I ask
Is in it for you
Watching me squirm from your verbal attack
Imprisoning me without a leeway

The endless drone
Of incessant k’vetch
I begin to dream
Of another life
Absent from your whine
Where I no longer hear what I’ve done wrong
Because you have been spirited away


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Lisa is hosting D'Verse Poets tonight and has prompted us with some Halloween fun.
We are to write a poem, using the Duodora form if we wish, about a human
attribute that is particularly irritating to you.  I particularly cannot bear
nagging in any form.  I liked the idea of writing a Duodora (my first).
The Duodora is:
a quatorzain made up of 2 septets.
syllabic,  4/6/5/5/5/10/10 syllables per line.
rhymed Axxxxxb Axxxxxb L1 is repeated as a refrain that begins
the 2nd stanza. x is unrhymed.

Image by prettysleepy1 from Pixabay

  41 comments for “Born To Nag – A Duodora ”

  1. Tracy Cregg
    October 29, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    Great poem! I like the second half especially. Nice work! 👏

    • Christine Bolton
      October 29, 2021 at 11:14 pm

      Thanks Tracy ☺️💕

      • Tracy Cregg
        October 30, 2021 at 11:43 am

        You’re very welcome!

  2. Dora
    October 29, 2021 at 1:31 pm

    Christine,
    You hit this one out of the park, making the form adapt to your tone! The “incessant k’vetch” – who hasn’t known it? And wanted to make the “drone” disappear.
    pax,
    dora

    • Christine Bolton
      October 29, 2021 at 7:27 pm

      Oh my gosh Dora , yes! It’s as bad as nagging 🤣

  3. lillian
    October 28, 2021 at 3:33 pm

    Good use of the form…..and I’m smiling as sometimes witches are called nags, hags, drones.
    Oh I do hate a whiner….

    • Christine Bolton
      October 28, 2021 at 8:54 pm

      thanks so much! Yes Lillian, whiner, nagger, complainer. They can drain the energy from you 😦

  4. Grace
    October 28, 2021 at 12:35 pm

    Good work on the form. The endless drone will drive me nuts too.

    • Christine Bolton
      October 28, 2021 at 8:55 pm

      Thanks Grace. Show me one person that enjoys being nagged. They don’t exist!

  5. Sean Mathews
    October 28, 2021 at 1:51 am

    the nag is spite the nag is right in my plight i take flight. great duodora i felt the nastiness

    • Christine Bolton
      October 28, 2021 at 8:53 am

      Thank you Sean. Yes! A person who nags, whines, complains can just drain the energy from you. 😕

  6. Beverly Crawford
    October 27, 2021 at 5:59 pm

    Begone, endless drone. Pack you backsack of nags and take it elsewhere!

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:38 pm

      LOL Bev! I should have included those lines in the poem 🤣

  7. sanaarizvi
    October 27, 2021 at 4:01 pm

    A fabulous Duodora, Christine! I too despise those who nag. 💝💝

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:42 pm

      Yes, so draining Sanaa 😕

  8. paeansunplugged
    October 27, 2021 at 2:14 pm

    This is good, Christine! Nagging can be so infuriating.

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:44 pm

      Thanks Punam. I really hate it 😕

  9. Helen Dehner
    October 27, 2021 at 11:06 am

    Cheers to your Duodora ~~~ it is great! The art is too.

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 2:24 pm

      Thanks Helen ☺️💕

  10. Ingrid
    October 27, 2021 at 8:12 am

    Nagging is a bit like gossip: it achieves nothing and wounds all involved. A form of attempted manipulation or controlling behaviour. Well said, Christine!

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:14 am

      Thank you Ingrid. I’m too old to be nagged 🤣 LOL

      • Ingrid
        October 27, 2021 at 8:16 am

        I think I was guilty of doing the nagging in the past, but things go easier when you stop trying to control others and work on yourself!

  11. rob kistner
    October 27, 2021 at 5:34 am

    You are preaching to the choir Christine. I have little patience for nagging.

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:16 am

      Indeed Ron! Who needs it? Just let people be I say 🤣

  12. Carol anne
    October 27, 2021 at 5:00 am

    awesome poem christine! Well done <3

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:17 am

      Thanks CA ☺️💕

  13. Sadje
    October 26, 2021 at 11:21 pm

    It’s very irritating when someone nags constantly

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 12:08 am

      Indeed! 😳 thanks Sadje ☺️💕

      • Sadje
        October 27, 2021 at 1:39 am

        You’re welcome

  14. calmkate
    October 26, 2021 at 11:14 pm

    You aced the form Christine, I’d have to run away from such verbal abuse! Good luck with it 🙂

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 12:07 am

      Lol! Thanks Kate 🤣

      • calmkate
        October 27, 2021 at 1:06 am

        your most welcome Christine, good to connect again!

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 8:18 am

      Yes Kate. Hope you’re well. I’m usually at D’Verse every week. See you there! ☺️💕

      • calmkate
        October 27, 2021 at 4:56 pm

        yes thanks, and you?

      • Christine Bolton
        October 27, 2021 at 8:39 pm

        Yes Kate all is well at my end. Thank you 💕💕☺️

  15. msjadeli
    October 26, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    Christine, I like the image you chose to go with your duodora. I can see why someone who is being nagged would let their mind wander on to more pleasant things. Like eating delicious candy corn 🙂

    • Christine Bolton
      October 26, 2021 at 10:59 pm

      Lol! I think there might even be death by nagging 🤣

      • msjadeli
        October 27, 2021 at 12:35 pm

        LOL

  16. rothpoetry
    October 26, 2021 at 10:15 pm

    A great poem Christine. Nagging is so irritating. You have shared it well!

    • Christine Bolton
      October 27, 2021 at 12:09 am

      It was a fun prompt from Lisa for sure! Thanks Dwight ☺️

      • rothpoetry
        October 27, 2021 at 9:31 am

        Yes it was!

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