Writing

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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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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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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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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Scent of Joy

By Denise Carruthers / 6th April, 2018

A scent of joy The sweet aroma Of coming 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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My only Love

By Denise Carruthers / 27th March, 2018

The only man I ever loved He lit my heart and set me waiting I waited till the sun was lower than my dreams Until I felt the charred remains…

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Wisp

By Denise Carruthers / 12th March, 2018

I am the seed the winds forgot Alone, my dandelion dreams With no breath to wish upon Nor breeze to carry me to him Only thoughts of love to fuel…

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my poetic love

By Denise Carruthers / 9th March, 2018

He’s part man part poetry & leaves on mottled wings Made him a need of flying That he must be free to go To come to her as midnight dreams…

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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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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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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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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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Love spells recipe

By Denise Carruthers / 8th February, 2018

How to make love From the darkness Take time Add a sprinkling of dreams Into the mix from the way we fall The daze A rise of mornings To sweetness…

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Side effects of love

By Denise Carruthers / 4th February, 2018

Yet it be barren Grief forms grit Desert sands drifting Thru the winds of time That wither The wonderful Side effect of love That life goes on

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Shadows of love

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd February, 2018

You are more than mere rags tossed by the wind You are held fast & beloved links in a memory You are footprints felt in the heart soft like down…

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What is wrong with sex

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd February, 2018

Do it right left satisfied in so many ways Do it long the lasting kind that lingers bringing thought to deed tongue to lips to taste the memory Do it…

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