Writing

Rowboat dreams

By Denise Carruthers / 15th April, 2018

14 #NaPoWriMo The Rowboat A brain in dreams Life passengers Taken for a ride  Personalities change seats But who controls the oars Much argument Manipulation Some irresponsible Wild want waterfalls…

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Once upon a time

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2018

once upon a time a blossoming girl fell to sleep and in the wake of a woman an old lady dreams of a journey, her childhood forgotten, a faded song…

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Just saying…

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2018

13 #NapPoWriMo “How many times have I told you?” How oft the ears don’t listen The teller curses When the rain falls light From a burning sky Hundreds and thousands…

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“the homeless haibun”

By Denise Carruthers / 13th April, 2018

12 #NapoWriMo “haibun” A paper man crumples Cold eyes skirt & seek the sky. Deaf to his hunger thinking only that it’s Thursday, or maybe Friday, must have a barbecue.…

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Who doctors the future

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2018

11 #NapPoWriMo Who doctors the future Some seek purpose Others make their own But for all we take We leave Footprints Selfie signatures Etching a tale Of whom & whose…

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All the little things

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2018

10 #NaPoWriMo It’s raining inside her head thoughts trickling beneath the shower underneath a stormy sky drowning by precipitation suddenly she starts to cry the milk has spilled begun to…

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a little voice told me…

By Denise Carruthers / 10th April, 2018

9 #NaPoWriMo “Hello” he said, “We live inside your head, from another dimension, caught in the tendrils of your brain. If you would please sneeze; it’d give us wings, you’d…

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Love Spell

By Denise Carruthers / 8th April, 2018

8 #NaPoWriMo  Candle fire Paper burn Lover named Etched in ashes Mind wipe w/ soot Cast runes Chant the spell: “Ye old lovelorn Lufu  Returneth me thy charms Upon thy…

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Multitask

By Denise Carruthers / 8th April, 2018

once upon a time there was a lonely octopus, with nothing to do and no one to do it with. Wanting a friend, needing a hand – but they were rare, …

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Don’t list me

By Denise Carruthers / 7th April, 2018

7 #NaPoWriMo No tag tied to my name The plans of mice n men Just get up and do Let the analysts earn their pay Some other when, far away…

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Line breaks

By Denise Carruthers / 6th April, 2018

6 #NaPoWriMo Daily decision Poetic pause Impact thinking Line break dancing Doing the limbo When & where Draw the line Longer or shorter Breaths held In the spaces in between…

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Scent of Joy

By Denise Carruthers / 6th April, 2018

A scent of joy The sweet aroma Of coming home

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shoes for concrete nouns

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

#NaPoWRiMo Inkwell deep Fuel for wanderers of the mind Pit-stop not full stop Pause for a penman Quills quiver in expectation Diphthongs dither about nouns Adjectives try for subjective Scribes want…

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A Half-light hemisphere

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

Her earthly life, A half light, the hemisphere between yesterday and heaven. She’s living,  but only in her dreams to slumbering & so to heal. This readying of her soul.…

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Band Names

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

#NapoWriMo Band Names Electric Elastic Fiddle Folk The Triple Trumpets Drumstick-n-stone Dungareedoh Synthetic Slithers Belt up Dunkin Disco Voila

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one take recipe

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd April, 2018

#napowrimo One swallow doesn’t make a meal One taste, a recipe’s mistake But one idea & the wake of genius

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The Three wishes

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd April, 2018

#napowrimo 1. I grow up I’m a be a princess Jay & me & always I wish but first I gotta run 2. Little sister’s Sigh! Maybe we’re orphans I…

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An eerie mourning

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Dark a.m. My ears are shells & the fridge sounds Far off, a sea Waves to the unsure of my mind The emptiness of nothing My island dreams tumbling home…

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Hands of love

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Kiss me But let your lips linger Below, above, wherever wings Life takes Yet stay by me Let our heartbeat time & rhythm We are the instruments of us Make…

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Secret of the Easter Bunny

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

I’ll tell you a secret There’s about as much chance Of an egg or Easter bunny As money, growing on trees Find my own rarebit Cooked my own way Melting…

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