First the bad news – the motherboard in my desktop PC has given up the ghost, so all of the data from the computer is being transferred to a portable disk drive to copy whatever I need to my laptop. Now that should be an interesting exercise but also very time consuming, particularly as I […]
Day: January 5, 2016
Clear and Vast
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #78 Vast&Clear Night skies in winter clear and vast; stars spanning past present and future © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on earthsky.org
Migraine
I cannot ignore the pain that bores through my eyes and into the orbs of my skull a dull throb robs me of creativity silences poetry drags words into a black hole leaving visual trails traces of snow and ice that freeze me In a migraine © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Cold Fence
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Photo Challenge # 94 Even the tracks of thorny wire lean Towards the early morning sun Tangled in tufts of icy grass Held fast By solid snow Soaked By slow Weak rays of light The cold fence Gives up the fight And sags A little more © Kim M. Russell, […]
Birth of a Galaxy
This tanka was prompted by something I read yesterday. Force of gravity draws galaxies together a slow collision of flames a chaotic space marriage birth of a new galaxy © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.esa.int