My response to dVerse Poets Meeting the Bar; the Rondel, has turned into an eco poem, inspired by a photograph I took on the way to a local beach. The wheels of time turn, Leaving behind worn out tyres To rot, moulder and expire By a roadside or on a pile to burn. When […]
Day: February 12, 2016
Beating heart of sea – a haibun
My response to Bastet’s A Month of Haiga – white noise When I first moved up to North Norfolk, I lived in a small village right next to the sea. I loved being able to walk a hundred yards down the road, up the cart gap where the life boat and fishing boats are driven […]
Banishing the Frost
My response to Carpe Diem #916 Temperature (Warmth/ Coolness) Early morning frost Embellishing blades of grass Melted by the sun Melted by the sun Artifice of winter fades Silver turns to green Silver turns to green Grey branches dappled with buds Spring is in the air © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Princess Elisa’s story continues
The Wild Swans Stave 4 After the darkest night, Without even the light Of a glow worm to ease her loneliness, Elisa set off through the vast forest And soon came upon A kindly old woman. Elisa asked if she had seen Eleven princes on their horses. She replied no, but eleven swans with […]
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