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

Published by Christine Bolton

I have been writing poetry since I was a child and it has helped in the good times and bad times. I am always looking within to find the answers to life's problems and to write thought-provoking poetry and prose. Thanks for checking it out. Christine

41 thoughts on “Born To Nag – A Duodora ”

  2. 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 🙂

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

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

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      1. 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!

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

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

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  15. 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

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