My response to Sacha Black’s #Writespiration 75’ write about the rusty thing’, inspired by a new form seen on Bastet and Sekhmet’s Library. The key to his heart Was hidden safely in the dark Depths of the back of a drawer Together with letters and notes Among the underwear The key to his heart […]
Month: January 2016
Yellow Orchids
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #95 Yellow Orchids by Liz West CC BY 2.0 Sweet vanilla permeates the senses spilling like liquid sunshine filling the air perfect petals open dragon mouths in a silent roar an orchid song as they perch along wiry stems glowing in their glory © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Leda’s Loculus
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
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 […]
The Seafarer’s Garden
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 […]
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 […]
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