Writing

The loneliest whale

By Denise Carruthers / 30th April, 2018

30 #NaPoWriMo 52 on a sea of sound waves High & apart A mourn for love To ride the seas To be my one & only I’m calling since the…

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Then there was light

By Denise Carruthers / 29th April, 2018

29 #NaPoWriMo Sin of serpent’s spit & spent Fermented apple came insider her Ensuing laugh that fractured night Broken waters take her breath Then, a light burble Compensation for the…

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postcard sentiment

By Denise Carruthers / 28th April, 2018

28 #NaProWriMo Pity the picture in his mind A hastily written postcard Scant sentiment that leaves him wondering If all love comes slippery Scrawls and scribbles for his heart Does…

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that’s a turn up for the books

By Denise Carruthers / 27th April, 2018

27 #NaPoWriMo The nine of swords say fears & nightmares crossed with the nine of cups and I’ve paid my dues But I won’t turn up anymore Let me be…

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NonSense

By Denise Carruthers / 26th April, 2018

26 #NaPoWriMo NonSense Somebody or nobody everywhere & nowhere only memory to guide this darkness He Noticed sound or rather lack of it In silence was an echo Seeing blackness…

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Labels disable

By Denise Carruthers / 25th April, 2018

25 #NaPoWriMo You want put a label on me Awhile wearing tickets To ride like everyone Hot blows your wind and foul When you hide your flaws By making them…

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Come to me

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

Blow,  blow ye soft winds of time. Take me,  but gentle now,  along the lane; A tender tread,  to touch my memory Bring me the past wrapped in you. A…

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Eulogy

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

24 #NaPoWriMo As grief clutches my heart Clouds fill the sky I wonder for life beyond Without the one who shines I reach for love, for anything something to make…

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Twisted Time

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

The beginning of the past A child’s vision hangs The youth fashioning the knot That young adult refines Repeatedly over and again Became twisted became regret But as time teaches…

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Fickle

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

fate’s hand her fingers tangling my line unkind of her to play with me to keep me dangling taunting me with dreams then snatching them without a chance and why…

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I heard you the first time

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd April, 2018

23 #NaPoWriMo Revving engines Sky plane soar Horns object to chicken play Blinds twitch n silent sight Balls thud, Thud, thud Range o bells Ding, dong door Cacophony of senses…

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The Impossible

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd April, 2018

22 #NaPoWriMo #haiku It’s impossible The sun can’t rise in the west We be drinking moonshine

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Narcissus Dreaming

By Denise Carruthers / 21st April, 2018

21 #naPoWriMo At wit’s end Deep falls desperate Over the edge To the well of Narcissus She sees a flower Its face like her own Yet ripples form wrinkles &…

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The rebel

By Denise Carruthers / 20th April, 2018

20 #NaPoWriMo Who stands firm Makes cracks Because they think Who knows sheep By their interior By the lull rendered dumb Can’t beat the bejesus The bleat of bullies Not…

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The journey

By Denise Carruthers / 19th April, 2018

19 #NaPoWriMo Thru an arch of twining roses To a place Stone gargoyles guard The path oft trod Lulls my senses Till darkness shapes & forms a stranger Calls the…

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The comparison

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2018

!8 #NaPoWriMo My heart bloomed in spring Yesterday when we were green I hid myself behind my skirts As the sun made a halo of my hair Ye shook my…

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A memory of love

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2018

17 #NaPoWriMo Uncle George & Auntie Elsie Love at first sight A daughter, secondary love But eyes only for each other Seemed like forever One day, Doc The dreaded cancer…

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Twin Depressions

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2018

17 #NaPoWriMo The Great Depression Newly married Grandparents rented out rooms Tenant wife miscarried. Perfect yet dead Blue twins spent overnight in the bath. At dawn they were packed into…

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The secret of words

By Denise Carruthers / 16th April, 2018

16 #NapoWriMo I like to play with words To find the secret of their meaning Like the surprises in homonyms and I really smile at the double entendre I like…

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When naughty is nice

By Denise Carruthers / 16th April, 2018

!5 #NaPoWriMo One day Gorgie Porgie decided to kiss the girls and make them love him and when the boys came out to play, they had to play football instead.

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