Writing

B Spot

By Denise Carruthers / 18th March, 2019

??????   He who craves honey. From best tasting flowers. Must find the bee spot.

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Scent

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd February, 2019

After awhile she sorted the clothing. That’s where she found him, as if he’d waited there, to be unpacked His last possessions, an old worn singlet once close to his…

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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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Recipe for sex

By Denise Carruthers / 6th May, 2018

Recipe for sex yes yes yes beaten pounded keep it in the kitchen unbound apron strings make it on the table take it up a notch whip appeal stirring slowly…

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Then there was light

By Denise Carruthers / 29th April, 2018

29 #NaPoWriMo Sin of serpent’s spit & spent Fermented apple came insider her Ensuing laugh that fractured night Broken waters take her breath Then, a light burble Compensation for the…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Loves In

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd February, 2018

What is sin Fingers to lips The kiss of death Delivered sweet Breath of angels Wind soft Whispers Temptation tells Tannin taste Its touch of tongues That lash & linger…

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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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Visceral – spoken word

By Denise Carruthers / 11th December, 2017

Of things we are are made – of blood and bone of the tendrils of nerves, a motor within us all it’s revs and runs an engine, but with involuntary…

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estuary – spoken word

By Denise Carruthers / 15th October, 2017

He is an ocean’s estuary She’s fresh, A running river -meeting the brine To froth and folly In that furling gladness She is me and like a pearl His world…

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By Denise Carruthers / 7th October, 2017

My bedroom door You see it closed For reason Both private and personal Its a door you do not open Any signs of disturbance Are pure co-incidence Of no concern…

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tame a wicked night spell

By Denise Carruthers / 20th September, 2017

Dark glamour A dose to spell a wicked night 3 oz allure 1 feather of surrender Two tender loins Simmer to steaming Serve hot

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