My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #12: Quatern Merged in a wash of blatant blue, Ocean and sky meet in a kiss, The seafarer surveys the view, Standing alone in private bliss. Sloping down to a steep cliff’s edge, Merged in a wash of blatant blue, Surrounded by sheep’s bit and sedge, Scattered […]
Day: January 10, 2016
Hair Ice
Frosty morning light Fractures tiny stalagmites Efflorescent white Of decaying twinkling twigs Scattered in the waking wood © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on epod.usra.edu
Sea Birds
Along the shingly shore And further up the creek Swoop black-backed gulls Spearing silver fish in lethal beaks On the apron of marshland Redshanks pipe nervously Long skeins of geese Lace the cloudy sky And wigeon wing hurriedly In twos and threes Heading Farther out To sea © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image of Spotted Redshank […]
Another tanka to brighten up a dull January Sunday
Memories of a Summer Garden The summer garden Was ablaze with shapes and hues, Bursts, swirls and patches, A feast of flaming colour Fresh from an artist’s palette © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.thetimes.co.uk Claude Monet in his garden at Giverny. Photo by Getty Images
A tanka after a short break
Norfolk Flatland Flatland is broken By churches, the odd windmill And broken-backed trees Horizon dipping away Under an expansive sky © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 