Writing

lacuna

By Denise Carruthers / 29th July, 2017

Deep into depression a lacuna. Like a footprint in my heart. Reminder of past feeling the steep of my mind Sometimes that ghost won’t stay buried and echos in bones…

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I love you.

By Denise Carruthers / 28th July, 2017

How do i know it’s love Because of the moments when even the sound of silence carries your name No bird trills as sweet no opera charms as the lilt…

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Jackpot Jan

By Denise Carruthers / 27th July, 2017

Jackpot Jan, the glamour gal with diamonds in her eyes. Spoon feeds water to the blinkered horse ere takes him for a ride.

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a sheen of lovers

By Denise Carruthers / 25th July, 2017

They came as light, Lovers, Neath the sheen & shimmer They were writhing movements With sound and rhythm Making music within

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chains

By Denise Carruthers / 25th July, 2017

How we kept it together Our links not chains Just a tether of tenderness and understanding

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trouble

By Denise Carruthers / 25th July, 2017

Trouble stirs the pot That worry stews in

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scrolls of the dead

By Denise Carruthers / 25th July, 2017

My words Not always tragic They live a little first Then they die The quick & dead Glossed over doom Discarded & forgotten

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the first hello

By Denise Carruthers / 25th July, 2017

The precious first That one hello Felled my heart Touched my soul Now the fruit of memory Bittersweet

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the end

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2017

I only hear one word sounds like goodbye The reverb in my mind as an echo All that I need to make it final is for you to leave But,…

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god knows

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

We don habits Wearing everyday Like it will always be Draped softness of belief Supported staunch in faith But there are many gods

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start and end

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

I say that love begins in the corner of a smile A smile as a promise of happiness It is the eyes that show sadness in a blink of goodbye

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tones of my heart

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

Thrums so soft My hollow sounds Gentle tones & mellow movement Plays a melody of maundering The melisma to my heart

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like love

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

T’ was there Paused my heart A mental connection Feeling of truthiness Déjà-vu & very like a love That once upon a time I knew

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By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

That old chestnut Nightmare Chomping at the bit To escape into dreams It behooves her to try The bolt with the canter

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afar

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

There was a man from afar Who kept his life in a jar But it got infected When fun was ejected And spent itself over the bar

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Love spell

By Denise Carruthers / 16th July, 2017

touch of sugar hint of spice 1 middle of the moment in a dash of midnight stars tiny hint of sunshine a corner of a smile LOVE

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A spell for increased machismo

By Denise Carruthers / 15th July, 2017

4 parts mojo I peacock’s tail sex appeal some honey & a bee shake a feather move your ass don’t strain

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happy spell

By Denise Carruthers / 14th July, 2017

find all kindness fill it up with fervor mix a splash of sunshine stir in the soul and smile

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highward

By Denise Carruthers / 14th July, 2017

little cardboard squares of heavenly blue mind flies skyward seek n see stars in the day sun in the night powder puffs of clouds

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darling dresses

By Denise Carruthers / 14th July, 2017

Wear this coat of my caress Dressed up in dearest wishes Graceful garb for gentleman Adorn yourself Darling Draped in adoration

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