Writing

Scent of Joy

By Denise Carruthers / 6th April, 2018

A scent of joy The sweet aroma Of coming home

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shoes for concrete nouns

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

#NaPoWRiMo Inkwell deep Fuel for wanderers of the mind Pit-stop not full stop Pause for a penman Quills quiver in expectation Diphthongs dither about nouns Adjectives try for subjective Scribes want…

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A Half-light hemisphere

By Denise Carruthers / 4th April, 2018

Her earthly life, A half light, the hemisphere between yesterday and heaven. She’s living,  but only in her dreams to slumbering & so to heal. This readying of her soul.…

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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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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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Hands of love

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Kiss me But let your lips linger Below, above, wherever wings Life takes Yet stay by me Let our heartbeat time & rhythm We are the instruments of us Make…

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Secret of the Easter Bunny

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

I’ll tell you a secret There’s about as much chance Of an egg or Easter bunny As money, growing on trees Find my own rarebit Cooked my own way Melting…

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Secret Haiku

By Denise Carruthers / 2nd April, 2018

Secret confession Pigeons coming home to roost Doves fly to freedom

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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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Love letter to an object

By Denise Carruthers / 1st April, 2018

O, you my love Took my breath Couldn’t live a day without the ease you gave to me. Help beyond a counsel’s couch Even in my dreams or fears A…

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My only Love

By Denise Carruthers / 27th March, 2018

The only man I ever loved He lit my heart and set me waiting I waited till the sun was lower than my dreams Until I felt the charred remains…

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Octopus

By Denise Carruthers / 19th March, 2018

Octopuses,  octopi,  octopodes Hmm, no matter how you say it He’s the whip. the Top cat of eight tails Got all those suckers working for him No bargaining no hard…

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Wisp

By Denise Carruthers / 12th March, 2018

I am the seed the winds forgot Alone, my dandelion dreams With no breath to wish upon Nor breeze to carry me to him Only thoughts of love to fuel…

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Let’s go dancing

By Denise Carruthers / 12th March, 2018

There he was, The dancer, Arthur rumba Stepping out to the song, you may have heard it Sumba chanted evening. He loved to dance from old to rap, cha cha…

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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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Unknowingly

By Denise Carruthers / 9th March, 2018

In the never never, an unknowing A brilliant light too bright to see Look ye yet in one breath of air the living Denial is a blind eyed death and…

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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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