Once the box opens, You discover the real world: Guile and corruption. Innocence and naive curiosity Pale into nostalgic dreams. ©Kim M. Russell, 2015 Image found on Pinterest
Month: December 2015
Day 4 of the 5 day photo story challenge.
Light Filters We say light filters Through leaves and branches of trees. But is it the trees That filter light through their green Canopies of foliage? © Kim M. Russell, 2015 Reminder of the Challenge Guidelines: Post a picture each day for five consecutive days. Attach a story to your image. Can be fiction […]
Day 3 of the 5 day photo story challenge
Reminder of the Challenge Guidelines: Post a picture each day for five consecutive days. Attach a story to your image. Can be fiction / non-fiction Poem / short paragraph Each day nominates another blogger As I’m not at all well today and will be heading back to bed shortly, I have decided to keep it […]
Another short story bites the dust
I just checked the results of the Costa Short Story Award and my story wasn’t even short-listed. Here it is: Three Way Family Favourites The silence of number thirty two Edmund Road is broken by the rattling of the key in the lock. The door swings open into the dim hallway, welcoming the mid-morning May […]
‘Essence’ by Kate Dempsey
Source: ‘Essence’ by Kate Dempsey
The Wisdom of Trees
Inspired by the reflections of Hermann Hesse Trees are potent preachers, growing together In woods and copses or standing solitary. The world rustles in tree tops And their roots reach to infinity. Nothing is holier or as perfect, As a handsome, robust tree. A felled tree reveals its naked wounds, A story told in […]
Another image…
taken on my Wednesday walk. Tree Bare branches hold sky At the end of a long day Letting light refract Allowing the tender touch To penetrate its tree-ness © Kim M. Russell, 2015
Day 2 of the 5 day photo story challenge
Reminder of the Challenge Guidelines: Post a picture each day for five consecutive days. Attach a story to your image. Can be fiction / non-fiction Poem / short paragraph Each day nominates another blogger Communication Breakdown Words arrive Sporadically On cards I scribed To myself And slipped into the post box Memories Of hours spent […]
More of The Little Match Girl
Stave 2 The match girl struck Another stick of light; It glowed so bright It melted the wall of a house. Through its transparency She could clearly see A table with a dazzling white cloth Fine porcelain gleaming A roast goose steaming, Stuffed with apples and prunes. The little match girl reached out An […]
Five Day Photo/Story Challenge, Day 1
I have been challenged by the prolific poetess Jennifer Calvert of Ink and Quill to a 5 day photo story challenge. I haven’t been challenged before so this is all very new to me – a little bit scary but also quite exciting. As I have been busy with a very part-time job that takes […]
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