I submitted this response to Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 to a competition and once again my poem was not selected. Where am I going wrong? Response to Sonnet 12 I shall not watch the hands that tell the time, For fear of days that hasten into night; The face I loved to touch when in its […]
Day: December 9, 2015
2015 – What a year!
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My haibun…
for Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuilleand Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie. Challenge: “re-write” a haiku by one of the classic haiku poetesses, Chiyo-Ni. the naked branch of the plum gives its quintessence to its final falling leaf ©Kim M. Russell, 2015
Trapped
Bars of moonlight trap me in my bed Lines of poems trapped in my head Half awake and feeling half dead Tied up in sheets A gathering of knots Behind soporific eyelids Dancing dots Of light No shapes Just first-light blurs The only sound The tick Of a clock Tick Tock ©Kim M. Russell, 2015 […]
Night Approaches
Barren hills and railway tracks Unite isolated villages Threatened by the cold hand of winter, Bare branches overhead, Leaves rustle underfoot. Night approaches in a fleecy cloak of fog, Dragging a foot in a slow limp, A dissenting glare From under a black felt hat, Passes without pausing And melts into the fading light. […]
A Poem’s Escape
Illuminated By Christmas lights in the city A poem written In ghostly condensation On a jam-packed bus window Lingers in trickles and drops Escapes at the next bus stop ©Kim M. Russell, 2015 Image found on flickrhivemind.net
writing in north norfolk 