Writing

An unbearable lightness

By Denise Carruthers / 28th February, 2018

More than myth & fable even more than history We are an enduring light like clouds that hold the dark and return as rain From dust we rise from earth…

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only the body dies

By Denise Carruthers / 25th February, 2018

We are not dead Who live in love We’re the raise of dust The light dance dapples Dewdrops in the memory #photography bushboy photos

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Riddle riddle

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd February, 2018

What do you get If you cross the sky with a humming bird? A fly – ha ha What else? Unless you’re overcome by grass You goose! Image – Bushboy…

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Folded Feelings

By Denise Carruthers / 18th February, 2018

In an old drawer Not just any old But cupboard bare Wherein lies a skeleton Misplaced for love My folded feelings Further from the light The dust is ready Dead…

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Solitude

By Denise Carruthers / 18th February, 2018

It’s kookaburras meet cockatoos n screech n squawk n crackle loudly like mothers calling, children crying, roiling storms and wails of worry. The clamorous cacophony of endless noise .. leads…

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Who knows how she fell

By Denise Carruthers / 17th February, 2018

She didn’t want to find the known To follow in the way Footprints fade to one who flies Sands scattered by the coming tides Let steady fish find fact in…

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the last laugh

By Denise Carruthers / 16th February, 2018

Here lies a poet. Hooked up to various machines. Telling her heart in blips and pings. Giving wings to endless dreams. The last writes.

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Who am I to say?

By Denise Carruthers / 16th February, 2018

Asked for a short bio. Stopped & stumped (& short) Me, my life? Unmarried, childish, childless & boring Left on the shelf Plain blank pages But there’s my freedom Words…

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Skating on thin ice

By Denise Carruthers / 16th February, 2018

Black ice reflects her mood So close to cracking from his heat As warmth inside her roils She is cool to his clime A lofty mountain, an ecstasy At the…

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color runs

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

black,  red,  blue  of the lesser periwinkle; indigo to purple prison, lilac lavender and love caught running from the rainbow, in pummeled prints a violet pain.

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bloodnotes

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

Within we heard warbling A hedgerow of woodnotes Sounding the dirge In the way that death marches How breasts become red Spilled blood from the heart Still beats to the…

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Wishes

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

The other side of midnight Holds visible stars Half a world away And I am wishing That once upon My fallen dream A dark knight rises The knock upon the…

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We all fall down

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

As petals fall To bloody thorns, So paper life Unwritten, Crumpled. To be cast aside & burned. But beloved resurrection. Ink & ashes, Blooming words, Snow white from Cinderella. A…

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The sound of Beaches

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

Those hands on me, Leave me blue. Fingerprints of fear, To mark me as yours. Your private property. But I am not a beach. I’m the ocean’s roar. A bad-ass…

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Midnight muse

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

I’m maundering mud. Upon this commonplace. she happens. Not brown study muse. Awe of aboriginal. But Nubian ebony, Flows with whispers, Starry night. She’s beyond beautiful Arrested & bewitched, My…

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breaking cracks

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

He’s exciting to me. Holding me hard, intoxicating nearness; “I want to break you” he whispers and the thrill, part fear and exhilaration, sends me into paroxysms. Perspiration drips my…

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Amethyst beads

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

Misty clouds in amethyst Beads of moisture Droplets Sigh The rose has blue hints First blush reveals Her nakedness She’s simply sunlight

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King of Crows

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

The king of crows. Poe’s raven rambling. Night was as long as a darkened sky & birds flew east while south wind shouted; What cannot fly must return his feathers.…

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Riddle roll

By Denise Carruthers / 10th February, 2018

I am moving Ball on the ground I am bread But not sandwich Dice yet uncut Around and over I am on it

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Riddle Fairy

By Denise Carruthers / 10th February, 2018

What am I Fairy light and frolicsome I wish without my reason My play, pretend My wishes, wistful Some call me fancy That quaint in behavior (Answer – whimsy)

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