{"id":67,"date":"2025-01-20T18:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T18:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cldolloff.com\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2026-02-23T18:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:00:52","slug":"samples","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cldolloff.com\/?page_id=67","title":{"rendered":"Samples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve been writing one new poem a day for all of 2025. Here are some samples of my original writing – Check out my socials for more!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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10\/24<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When pushin’
Comes to shovin’
It’s time to
Wake the coven
The witches
Are still burning
But refuse
To let that
Stop them<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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10\/28<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not that I didn’t want
To find myself
I promise you
I have been looking
But I fear the discovery
At the end of this maze
Like a sharp prick of truth
In an ocean of haze

Finally, I see
The answer was obvious
And full of sorrow
Where I’ve been hiding
From me all this time:
The clandestine land of
Tomorrow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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11\/27<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Took a pill for
Future happy
Doesn’t help with
Present sad
Took one
Yesterday as well
Didn’t stop me
Feeling bad
Pill is not a contract –
Just a wish in capsule form
A wish to insulate me –
World is cold
But I stay warm
I wish each day
For future happy
And sometimes
It works
Then other days
I hate these little
Orange bottle jerks
I do know this:
The present sad
Will pass as surely
As the bird will benefit
From the choice
To rise early
But I fear a simple truth
I’ve chosen not to see:
That the pill
Can only do so much
And the future happy
Has to come
From me<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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