Writing

Do you do drugs like drugs do you

By Denise Carruthers / 10th March, 2019

Painting highs as cowslips low yellow meadows, buttercups & wattles waltz by lil posy primroses. But poppy wants her opium Mary Jane her green Salvador does dilly dali painting plants…

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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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By Denise Carruthers / 17th November, 2018

Trees beg to be heard. Where time lines and ring barks. The old dog and bone.

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Pirate Pete

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

Pete the pirate, a master of fails. Once, he dressed up in top hat & tails, said he’s off with his shank to drill a hole in the plank But…

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Shadow limerick

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

There once was a deep little shadow without any body to follow He got in a muddle Fell in a puddle & now he’s a little bit shallow

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psalm love

By Denise Carruthers / 20th July, 2018

Wrap her prayers A magic ribbon to tie the light A Möbius amoeba in the sea of dementia Knot not knotted an unraveling thread Which she held in her palm…

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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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Thank you

By Denise Carruthers / 17th June, 2018

It happened that I found a friend,  when a friend was exactly what I needed. This is dedicated to him; Found me a shelter a standing rock & he’s the…

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I am a riddle

By Denise Carruthers / 11th May, 2018

I am the jangled nerves of waiting. A dispassionate white room cold. I am an ever present fear and a much dreaded departure. The loudest wailing prayers and sobs, a…

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writing woes

By Denise Carruthers / 9th May, 2018

I’m walking down that road, the rocky one, sure that I will fall and afraid that I was never on the road at all. But merely, a bystander a refugee…

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Labels disable

By Denise Carruthers / 25th April, 2018

25 #NaPoWriMo You want put a label on me Awhile wearing tickets To ride like everyone Hot blows your wind and foul When you hide your flaws By making them…

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Fickle

By Denise Carruthers / 24th April, 2018

fate’s hand her fingers tangling my line unkind of her to play with me to keep me dangling taunting me with dreams then snatching them without a chance and why…

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I heard you the first time

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd April, 2018

23 #NaPoWriMo Revving engines Sky plane soar Horns object to chicken play Blinds twitch n silent sight Balls thud, Thud, thud Range o bells Ding, dong door Cacophony of senses…

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The rebel

By Denise Carruthers / 20th April, 2018

20 #NaPoWriMo Who stands firm Makes cracks Because they think Who knows sheep By their interior By the lull rendered dumb Can’t beat the bejesus The bleat of bullies Not…

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Just saying…

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2018

13 #NapPoWriMo “How many times have I told you?” How oft the ears don’t listen The teller curses When the rain falls light From a burning sky Hundreds and thousands…

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“the homeless haibun”

By Denise Carruthers / 13th April, 2018

12 #NapoWriMo “haibun” A paper man crumples Cold eyes skirt & seek the sky. Deaf to his hunger thinking only that it’s Thursday, or maybe Friday, must have a barbecue.…

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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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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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