Writing

one take recipe

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd April, 2018

#napowrimo One swallow doesn’t make a meal One taste, a recipe’s mistake But one idea & the wake of genius

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The Three wishes

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd April, 2018

#napowrimo 1. I grow up I’m a be a princess Jay & me & always I wish but first I gotta run 2. Little sister’s Sigh! Maybe we’re orphans I…

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An eerie mourning

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Dark a.m. My ears are shells & the fridge sounds Far off, a sea Waves to the unsure of my mind The emptiness of nothing My island dreams tumbling home…

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Spell for f for fear

By Denise Carruthers / 1st April, 2018

A fear Spell 1 storm without 1 dark within A faint smell of the sea 2 eyes aglow 1 muffled quiet A creak of doors Make a hollow in the…

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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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Brew

By Denise Carruthers / 9th March, 2018

How do you take your poetry With milk & sugar or poured straight black Do you dunk your words Drizzle ink upon your pages Taste the swill before the swallow…

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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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Jewels in the crown

By Denise Carruthers / 3rd March, 2018

They couldn’t burn a candle for a king Light a simple idea for a knight But sure as shit and shillings spent It’d be the copper that was bent Or…

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fucking flies

By Denise Carruthers / 1st March, 2018

between my sighs an empty nest and all the fragility that fledglings felt falling down on my soft self

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warm places

By Denise Carruthers / 1st March, 2018

No time for tears quarter of a moon or fifteen past the morrow that sorrow hangs its weary head upon the many & the warm places pillows friendly shoulders promise…

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only the body dies

By Denise Carruthers / 25th February, 2018

We are not dead Who live in love We’re the raise of dust The light dance dapples Dewdrops in the memory #photography bushboy photos

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Who am I to say?

By Denise Carruthers / 16th February, 2018

Asked for a short bio. Stopped & stumped (& short) Me, my life? Unmarried, childish, childless & boring Left on the shelf Plain blank pages But there’s my freedom Words…

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color runs

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

black,  red,  blue  of the lesser periwinkle; indigo to purple prison, lilac lavender and love caught running from the rainbow, in pummeled prints a violet pain.

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We all fall down

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

As petals fall To bloody thorns, So paper life Unwritten, Crumpled. To be cast aside & burned. But beloved resurrection. Ink & ashes, Blooming words, Snow white from Cinderella. A…

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The sound of Beaches

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

Those hands on me, Leave me blue. Fingerprints of fear, To mark me as yours. Your private property. But I am not a beach. I’m the ocean’s roar. A bad-ass…

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King of Crows

By Denise Carruthers / 15th February, 2018

The king of crows. Poe’s raven rambling. Night was as long as a darkened sky & birds flew east while south wind shouted; What cannot fly must return his feathers.…

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Riddle roll

By Denise Carruthers / 10th February, 2018

I am moving Ball on the ground I am bread But not sandwich Dice yet uncut Around and over I am on it

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Riddle Fairy

By Denise Carruthers / 10th February, 2018

What am I Fairy light and frolicsome I wish without my reason My play, pretend My wishes, wistful Some call me fancy That quaint in behavior (Answer – whimsy)

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Riddle me

By Denise Carruthers / 5th February, 2018

Mother listen What fathom ye. T’is riddle or rhyme In this, a tale of mystery; Seventeen fingers. Fours hands high. A one armed man, Left hanging by the middle one.…

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Call me in the mourning

By Denise Carruthers / 4th February, 2018

In the stillness, Hushed & numb. Shock turns Her face away. But memory knocks, Not to be ignored. Tsunami warns. Floods her mind. There is horror At the hour when,…

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