Writing

Dark knight

By Denise Carruthers / 9th March, 2019

Let the dark speak its comfort in the arms of the night. Gallant whispers lay the cape covering my fright. Be the hush of quiet Genteel be the hands that…

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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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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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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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Love you to bits

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd May, 2018

The spaces between us No walls without flaws Only adore

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Melancholy nights

By Denise Carruthers / 14th May, 2018

Please, don’t let it be an eerie place. Let bluebells ring unto the night Close the snows of winter past Perhaps, the silver moon will beam across the lake to…

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postcard sentiment

By Denise Carruthers / 28th April, 2018

28 #NaProWriMo Pity the picture in his mind A hastily written postcard Scant sentiment that leaves him wondering If all love comes slippery Scrawls and scribbles for his heart Does…

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Come to me

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

Blow,  blow ye soft winds of time. Take me,  but gentle now,  along the lane; A tender tread,  to touch my memory Bring me the past wrapped in you. A…

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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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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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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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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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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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Waiting Dreams

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd February, 2018

She wears her wake As if it’s mourning Deep stars Make midnight of her eyes Moonbeams answer In the shadows of life Her dreams, wait

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HOT

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd February, 2018

Heat flickered Fired flares Heartbeat fast Feelings flower Fuel the bloom Of morning dew Make love Ride in sunsets Photo by Bushboy photos via https://bushboy.blog/

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Stalk

By Denise Carruthers / 30th January, 2018

There they were, your words mesmerizing magical Drawing me into your world. I wait breath held; to see what next. So like a flower you, with writes like blossoms that…

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