Writing

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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Petals and Pearls

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd June, 2018

How far we’ve come from trees to caves we grunted along till some bugger’s tongue turned sounds into words and then to the way that we say them, For instance,…

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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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The lottery

By Denise Carruthers / 10th May, 2018

I’m walking the road – And a hint of something halted me, a step away from a great uncovered hole….then, whoosh green whirling smoke, six foot of ebony draped in…

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Black Cat

By Denise Carruthers / 4th May, 2018

#UnspokenFears Mad indeed would I be to expect belief and yet you see me here before you bound by such insanity. Pussy lives below but cries at the door. To…

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The secret of words

By Denise Carruthers / 16th April, 2018

16 #NapoWriMo I like to play with words To find the secret of their meaning Like the surprises in homonyms and I really smile at the double entendre I like…

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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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Multitask

By Denise Carruthers / 8th April, 2018

once upon a time there was a lonely octopus, with nothing to do and no one to do it with. Wanting a friend, needing a hand – but they were rare, …

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A Half-light hemisphere

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

Her earthly life, A half light, the hemisphere between yesterday and heaven. She’s living,  but only in her dreams to slumbering & so to heal. This readying of her soul.…

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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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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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Let’s go dancing

By Denise Carruthers / 12th March, 2018

There he was, The dancer, Arthur rumba Stepping out to the song, you may have heard it Sumba chanted evening. He loved to dance from old to rap, cha cha…

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Losing It

By Denise Carruthers / 4th March, 2018

Don’t expect a drum roll warning From mirth & madness that ferments in the mind A sudden snap …and a mental bone is broken A kind of derangement, a doolally…

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An unbearable lightness

By Denise Carruthers / 28th February, 2018

More than myth & fable even more than history We are an enduring light like clouds that hold the dark and return as rain From dust we rise from earth…

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Solitude

By Denise Carruthers / 18th February, 2018

It’s kookaburras meet cockatoos n screech n squawk n crackle loudly like mothers calling, children crying, roiling storms and wails of worry. The clamorous cacophony of endless noise .. leads…

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A different drift.

By Denise Carruthers / 6th February, 2018

What’s the difference!  carnivore, vegetarian  even vegans still must eat  needing jaws to chew & chatter Your veiled visage hides what I would see  and so, my wilderness imagines  running…

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No head for business

By Denise Carruthers / 28th January, 2018

once upon a time, in the not so long ago there was a headless boy He tried so hard to get ahead he rang the boss who said, “Come in…

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The strike of a match

By Denise Carruthers / 20th January, 2018

Where are you. my love I’m forever wondering Think of you and time takes me into the furthering of doubt That taunts my mind the trauma of possibilities of whatever…

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WhisperingNeds Toads work it

By Denise Carruthers / 15th January, 2018

Cane toads abound in australia rib-bit rib-bit come to work it but they don’t do their job, eradicating beetles Brought to work they’re busy, but not as your’d expect they’re…

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Unfolding conundrum – spoken word

By Denise Carruthers / 11th January, 2018

You want to hear a tale, to fear and to be scared to feel the shivers up and down your spine but with a twist A shroud of mystery Want…

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