Writing

A Right Breeze

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

When the wind finds the windows are closed It bangs & whines,  it batters & blows It whips such a breeze  makes papa’s nuts freeze It squeezes the sneezes right…

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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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plank

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd July, 2018

There once was a man from Australia Embarrassed by his genitalia As he’d never scored and holes need be bored He broke up a ship’s plank & nailed her.

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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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Healing Spell

By Denise Carruthers / 20th July, 2018

Hidden underneath her wound, a scroll… “to whom wytch finds my wryte t’is shend ye be not hark my wyrds this spell thou sayeth:” Rise up fool moon Loose thy…

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Ballet.

By Denise Carruthers / 23rd June, 2018

The ink fills her reeds. Dangles deep in her dark pasta. Her bellyful and aching from La Bayadère. No more Minkus, She craves the sweet straws, the strings of Schubert.…

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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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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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Under the Guvmints spell

By Denise Carruthers / 20th June, 2018

Once t’was a stork brought the babies. Then kisses and what ifs and maybe’s. When there was no more of that, under the cabbage old hat. They gathered the children…

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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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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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THE SONG

By Denise Carruthers / 4th June, 2018

and then she sang, a pale watery sound to be sure but the mountain heard & echoed it along the valley. The wind picked her song for the stones in…

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Beyond the Pale

By Denise Carruthers / 4th June, 2018

…and then the milk, you spilled, on purpose in my name. To make me cry while you shed sneers How black looks on your kettle. How you became the harder…

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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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Island

By Denise Carruthers / 31st May, 2018

Fey feelings, tendrils of memory, twitches in time. An island risen from the ocean. Wherefore no life, no mountain & no tree. They summoned her & in the echoes of…

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The falcon’s pause

By Denise Carruthers / 29th May, 2018

The falcon’s pause Like the breath of a feather Swallows in the spring

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who’s hungry

By Denise Carruthers / 24th May, 2018

Spider fascinate the fly. Lionchu fish. I don’t know why.

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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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Death sucks

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd May, 2018

He hands me his bone, “gnaw on this or gimme a cigarette” My friend barely gasping air Croaks like a skeleton, “Me butt’s in the umbra” He Leans on me.…

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