Writing

Spring

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd March, 2019

Today I am all tree, the withering leaf, the letting go. My breath is a swallow My reach, the sky & yesterday rooted in history. Wherever love scents my branches,…

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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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Be not too hard…

By Denise Carruthers / 24th January, 2019

Softly impressionable, pliable. Willing to please, my love is like a bough. A willow’s whim bending only so far. Touch me as I bloom with your tenderness. My heart belongs…

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Lavender

By Denise Carruthers / 24th January, 2019

Find me love where the boysenberry plays & girls with posies of purple iris. Look below the Jacaranda flowers. There I’ll be Waiting for some lavender for feeling blossoms. &…

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Timeworn

By Denise Carruthers / 17th December, 2018

We’re timeworn weary~ Dog tired from making litter~ Trees bark paper tears.

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Ballet.

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd June, 2018

The ink fills her reeds. Dangles deep in her dark pasta. Her bellyful and aching from La Bayadère. No more Minkus, She craves the sweet straws, the strings of Schubert.…

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Love flowers

By Denise Carruthers / 20th June, 2018

~I have been waiting~ ~My garden planted with dreams~ ~But Impatiens blooms~   ? American Meadows

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Self contained

By Denise Carruthers / 20th June, 2018

It’s a blue bottle baby & a piece of the sea. It’s the sting in the tail one never forgets. Washed up abandon, at its lowest ebb. Sorrow preserved long…

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Nefelibata

By Denise Carruthers / 9th June, 2018

Let me tell you the tale of Nefelibata How long ago she was still & bound to earth Her roots ground and thoughts in marsh grasses Her shadows long as…

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THE SONG

By Denise Carruthers / 4th June, 2018

and then she sang, a pale watery sound to be sure but the mountain heard & echoed it along the valley. The wind picked her song for the stones in…

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Island

By Denise Carruthers / 31st May, 2018

Fey feelings, tendrils of memory, twitches in time. An island risen from the ocean. Wherefore no life, no mountain & no tree. They summoned her & in the echoes of…

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The falcon’s pause

By Denise Carruthers / 29th May, 2018

The falcon’s pause Like the breath of a feather Swallows in the spring

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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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The loneliest whale

By Denise Carruthers / 30th April, 2018

30 #NaPoWriMo 52 on a sea of sound waves High & apart A mourn for love To ride the seas To be my one & only I’m calling since the…

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Twisted Time

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

The beginning of the past A child’s vision hangs The youth fashioning the knot That young adult refines Repeatedly over and again Became twisted became regret But as time teaches…

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The Impossible

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd April, 2018

22 #NaPoWriMo #haiku It’s impossible The sun can’t rise in the west We be drinking moonshine

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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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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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Pretty faces

By Denise Carruthers / 9th March, 2018

Bedazzled by the sunlit awe The flowery fragrance Of primrose and promises Bent from the sway Nodding heads forget me not What lurks in the garden Beneath the show Danger…

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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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