Writing

Love letter to an object

By Denise Carruthers / 1st April, 2018

O, you my love Took my breath Couldn’t live a day without the ease you gave to me. Help beyond a counsel’s couch Even in my dreams or fears A…

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Octopus

By Denise Carruthers / 19th March, 2018

Octopuses,  octopi,  octopodes Hmm, no matter how you say it He’s the whip. the Top cat of eight tails Got all those suckers working for him No bargaining no hard…

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Let’s go dancing

By Denise Carruthers / 12th March, 2018

There he was, The dancer, Arthur rumba Stepping out to the song, you may have heard it Sumba chanted evening. He loved to dance from old to rap, cha cha…

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Jewels in the crown

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd March, 2018

They couldn’t burn a candle for a king Light a simple idea for a knight But sure as shit and shillings spent It’d be the copper that was bent Or…

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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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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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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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Color riddle

By Denise Carruthers / 10th February, 2018

Leaves and grass And shades of envy An island that is home to rain Mix me From the sun and sky A blanket for the earth I am bottled color…

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Riddle me

By Denise Carruthers / 5th February, 2018

Mother listen What fathom ye. T’is riddle or rhyme In this, a tale of mystery; Seventeen fingers. Fours hands high. A one armed man, Left hanging by the middle one.…

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Stop and Stair

By Denise Carruthers / 4th February, 2018

A phone rung on the staircase of the winter clime Snow answering the question insurmountable till death Whether I’m wrong Wither I go Footsteps Right beside me Heaven harps Or…

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No head for business

By Denise Carruthers / 28th January, 2018

once upon a time, in the not so long ago there was a headless boy He tried so hard to get ahead he rang the boss who said, “Come in…

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Mouth

By Denise Carruthers / 16th January, 2018

Take Gossip Rumor Wickedness Mix malicious Shut mouth Zip it ?

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WhisperingNeds Toads work it

By Denise Carruthers / 15th January, 2018

Cane toads abound in australia rib-bit rib-bit come to work it but they don’t do their job, eradicating beetles Brought to work they’re busy, but not as your’d expect they’re…

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By Denise Carruthers / 7th October, 2017

My bedroom door You see it closed For reason Both private and personal Its a door you do not open Any signs of disturbance Are pure co-incidence Of no concern…

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metaphor maiden

By Denise Carruthers / 9th August, 2017

A maiden of metaphors Stirred oil into troubled waters As easy come & go The sea of plenty Turned worms to Pea soup has-beens

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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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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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french manicure

By Denise Carruthers / 8th June, 2017

The ladies danced in the folly of Bergerac Beneath a lunatic moon Gamboled before nightmares Fair fillies of Folies Bergère

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