Writing

sing me my child

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2019

I will sing my child a song of flowers. I will weave her a lei to wear in dreams. I will lay her down in a garden bed. open her…

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who’s hungry

By Denise Carruthers / 24th May, 2018

Spider fascinate the fly. Lionchu fish. I don’t know 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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rainbow lorikeet

By Denise Carruthers / 6th November, 2017

Little ones gather round. Warm yourselves by my light Hear a tale told to me, in bits n pieces over time by the Dreamkin memory One day the princess moon…

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eek

By Denise Carruthers / 5th June, 2017

Up the spout the spider-lings Tickling, trickling thru the water Breaching breaths Reaching screams Furry fear forever after

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kittens

By Denise Carruthers / 5th June, 2017

Skittish is a kitten playing Scrawling lines upon the walls Fast and hesitant for fear Of being caught at being naughty

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boys will be

By Denise Carruthers / 4th June, 2017

Heracles put that down Atlas stop fooling round No one will ever believe How bad you boys behave Whole world on my shoulders

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why

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd May, 2017

Gazelles do grass, We graze on gravel; Graffiti writers in the sky. Clouds gather, cumulus Curious, asking why

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fairy

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd May, 2017

fae folk, tiny in the garden faint sounds of tinkling toil soft fan, the whisper of little wings slight footprints in the soil

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sky blue

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd April, 2017

because it was blue clouds gathered but sky still cried hearing the moon laughing in the milky way saying cheese to the cow

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