My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie and Wordle #93 Leda’s loculus: In a sacrosanct place Where no irreverent swan Can show its face Or jagged genitals To humiliate Her memory. Once the gods dragged It by its iron rings To hinder violation By a false deity, Genuflect And pray in piety. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Day: January 11, 2016
Broken Resolution
My response to the secret keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #19 Unwavering rain Typical of the season Gives me good reason To break a resolution Stay inside with poetry © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Cows on a Foggy Morning
I am reposting this haiku, posted last November, as a response to Chevrefeuille’s Carpe Diem #894 First Light Cows stand as frozen Breath taken by the splendour Of sun-shattered fog
Making Your Own Sunshine
Perfect happiness is an illusion You can’t switch it on Sadness and depression Lurk around every corner Make your own sunshine Through unhistoric acts Share other people’s worlds With quiet kindness Taking joy in birdsong Or the tallness Of trees Singing along To a favourite song Standing back And watching Other people having Fun Grabbing […]
Death of a Star Man
My tanka to the one rock star I fell in love with all those years ago when I was very young. I will never forget David Bowie – from a South London girl to a South London boy. A star man has been Extinguished; falling through space, Major Tom has gone. Planet Earth will […]
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