Writing

The Impossible

By Denise Carruthers / 22nd April, 2018

22 #NaPoWriMo #haiku It’s impossible The sun can’t rise in the west We be drinking moonshine

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Narcissus Dreaming

By Denise Carruthers / 21st April, 2018

21 #naPoWriMo At wit’s end Deep falls desperate Over the edge To the well of Narcissus She sees a flower Its face like her own Yet ripples form wrinkles &…

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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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The journey

By Denise Carruthers / 19th April, 2018

19 #NaPoWriMo Thru an arch of twining roses To a place Stone gargoyles guard The path oft trod Lulls my senses Till darkness shapes & forms a stranger Calls the…

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The comparison

By Denise Carruthers / 18th April, 2018

!8 #NaPoWriMo My heart bloomed in spring Yesterday when we were green I hid myself behind my skirts As the sun made a halo of my hair Ye shook my…

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A memory of love

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2018

17 #NaPoWriMo Uncle George & Auntie Elsie Love at first sight A daughter, secondary love But eyes only for each other Seemed like forever One day, Doc The dreaded cancer…

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Twin Depressions

By Denise Carruthers / 17th April, 2018

17 #NaPoWriMo The Great Depression Newly married Grandparents rented out rooms Tenant wife miscarried. Perfect yet dead Blue twins spent overnight in the bath. At dawn they were packed into…

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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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When naughty is nice

By Denise Carruthers / 16th April, 2018

!5 #NaPoWriMo One day Gorgie Porgie decided to kiss the girls and make them love him and when the boys came out to play, they had to play football instead.

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Rowboat dreams

By Denise Carruthers / 15th April, 2018

14 #NaPoWriMo The Rowboat A brain in dreams Life passengers Taken for a ride  Personalities change seats But who controls the oars Much argument Manipulation Some irresponsible Wild want waterfalls…

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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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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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Who doctors the future

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2018

11 #NapPoWriMo Who doctors the future Some seek purpose Others make their own But for all we take We leave Footprints Selfie signatures Etching a tale Of whom & whose…

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All the little things

By Denise Carruthers / 11th April, 2018

10 #NaPoWriMo It’s raining inside her head thoughts trickling beneath the shower underneath a stormy sky drowning by precipitation suddenly she starts to cry the milk has spilled begun to…

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a little voice told me…

By Denise Carruthers / 10th April, 2018

9 #NaPoWriMo “Hello” he said, “We live inside your head, from another dimension, caught in the tendrils of your brain. If you would please sneeze; it’d give us wings, you’d…

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Love Spell

By Denise Carruthers / 8th April, 2018

8 #NaPoWriMo  Candle fire Paper burn Lover named Etched in ashes Mind wipe w/ soot Cast runes Chant the spell: “Ye old lovelorn Lufu  Returneth me thy charms Upon thy…

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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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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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