Writing

rainsong

By Denise Carruthers / 21st April, 2017

He came gently, a flowing murmur. My rainsong falling but steadily. To love and lightning. Heaven is the sea in me.

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longitude of love

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2017

Reaching into yesterday by longitude of time Half a day, a world away I’m in your future You’re in my past Our love is mist

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venus

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2017

Tongue slides along the stem Petals quiver in velvet bloom Daintily the wings aflutter SNAP The fly’s undone

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mimi spirits

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2017

Now people walk loud exhale of ancestors imprinted into being Watched by mimi spirits we are but whispers Breath of the gods

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old gardeners

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2017

Getting on Dry roots out desire Weed wants away the wilt Soft stalks, dry beds A field of has-beens Yesterday’s blossoms

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from tiny seeds

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

Faraway tongues tell shivers of filthy rains that come in cumbrous clouds Thundering run into tomorrow Fear in homespun awe

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surges

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

Why does he forsake me? Knows that I’m waiting, making me ache for him. Then appearing; as an aliment to ease the pangs of my love.

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time n bruises

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

Prison is a paper lady her story inky parchment Permanently marked w/ life’s dun Sepia walking, haunting Ghosts calling her soul

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eternal life

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

What if you could have eternal life at the cost of another? He took eternal life Whole universes died unborn Told, “Give back” He replied “No, for I would live…

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velvet sky

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

Ancient threads of gods Woven through the universe Tapestry of stars

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poor poet

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2017

This bard who eats of the tree Has more bark than bite poetry His ink turns to sap No rhyme in his rap His readers sleep thru history

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feelings

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2017

Do others feel the same, do they fall into their kisses? With lover’s tongues; in the language that is felt like braille.

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secrets

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2017

He was an oasis in the palm of her hand. What tears she tasted testing for truth; were just desserts, wet & wild. Acid dates from bitter rain

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lost

By Denise Carruthers / 14th April, 2017

He’s left to rags like Cophetua’s beggar maid cast off for kings One washed up relic His whisper lost A teardrop in the rain

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storm in my teacup

By Denise Carruthers / 13th April, 2017

Sea in my teacup brimming with might Fear froths as milky fright Stirred by moonbeams bumps in the night Pounding roar of emotion

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of courses

By Denise Carruthers / 13th April, 2017

Horses trample my dreams Galloping ghosts of naysayers Left fragile by these nightmares I hold steadfast My hope for strength

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i am a tree

By Denise Carruthers / 13th April, 2017

For the moment I am all tree waiting for the sky to dress me in colors of the sun I hold my moon in final embrace he slips away

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by the sea

By Denise Carruthers / 12th April, 2017

Suddenly the world is spinning Floating I hear my ocean roar Tho far away, I yearn; aching for his sea in me

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in the beginning

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2017

We happened He swallowed the night choking on stars Purged out earth hungover the moon Not fully done God really began creating

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beating time

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2017

Mists of muffled melody thwumping the blues from a backwater bayou four beat four yearnings alone and haunting Miasmal

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