Denise White's Writings
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Poem
Mar.03.2011
Folded outwardly, I want
to wrap my curves about you,
and-
let you flow within. -daw
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Poem
Feb.09.2011
Our coversations
Words riding on azure waves
Carried chair to chair-daw
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Poem
Feb.05.2011
Feel the flow of rain
I wash your hair in sunlight
And tears run in streams
You are gently toweled dry
Our sweetest aubade of love-daw
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Poem
Feb.01.2011
Ineffable sea,
Broke by protruding headland,
Beclouded so high;
Might
I
Ever
Sail
Again. -daw
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Poem
Jan.31.2011
In the still of the snow,
The millpond was almost frozen below,
And a stone pebbled the skim. -daw
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Poem
Jan.06.2011
holes in the sky
darkening to indigo
blue; we grew
til the stars of the
north formed
a pattern we knew.
stories into truths
that were lived.
once upon a time,
I knew that
song, just give me,
me my moment,
when stars tell stories
I know; I'll show
you the heaven with
sunset's glow.-daw
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Poem
Jan.01.2011
Stillness to you now
Attentiveness to the path
Follow the wisdom-daw
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Poem
Dec.28.2010
through a complete soak,
tiny branchlets, like ourselves,
feed to hold life long-daw
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Poem
Dec.24.2010
Your eye stared at me;
cold, dry ice, radiating
through my thin white skin.-d
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Poem
Dec.22.2010
Entwind blacken arms,
Hold back the slaughterhouse orange.
Summer threatens heat.-daw
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Calling to mind the work of naturalist-poet Mary Oliver, White paints a handsome yet arresting portrait of the joys and pains of living.”
—Press release from AuthorHouse
About Denise
I taught mathematics for 32 years during which time I had my jr. and sr. high school students write books showing their knowledge in words and in numbers. I have been a poet and journaler since about the age of ten. I have poetry published in Northern...
Connections
Causes Denise White Supports
MN Public Radio
Denise’s Favorite Books
House by the Sea, Dot and The Line, The Three Miss Margrets, The Kite Runner,The Zen Of Creativity, Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone