Writing

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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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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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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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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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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Secret Haiku

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Secret confession Pigeons coming home to roost Doves fly to freedom

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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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