My response to Carpe Diem Special #198 Hamish Gunn’s 4th Petal lanterns white waxen petals droop with weight of morning frost forefinger tingles © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Month: February 2016
Watch where you go
My response to HBATNAGAR’s Two Phrase Story #29 – first seen on Elusive Trope’s blog The premise is simple. HBATNAGAR provides one phrase every Thursday, an incomplete string of words, and it is up to you to complete it in your own, inimitable way. However you like, taking it in any direction you want. If you […]
Lunar Light Perception
My response to Through the Eye of Bastet Photographic Experiences and Experiments one month of Haiga I missed the opportunity of a wonderful photograph the week before last, when there was a moon like a huge silver dish in the sky. I just didn’t have the time to fetch the camera. So I kept it […]
Compassion
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #1 episode 5 Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: Insight 4 the power of compassion is limitless In a single bowl there are many grains of rice share with compassion. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.norfolkacademy.org
Lichen
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini Challenge: one this snowflake ~ Micro Poetry sheen of lichen yellow & silver adorns the roof suns stars moons shimmering against slate & tile micro cosmos with its own constellations © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.rgbstock.com
The Christmas Hare
The third poem that was rejected by the magazine was one I originally wrote for a friend. It’s a bit late for Christmas, but here it is anyway. In a snowy field one Christmas Eve I spied a windswept hare Leaping and gambolling In the frosty air. The tawny coat beguiled me, Framed by […]
Poetic Dreaming
The second poem was another one I reworked, first posted in August. If you want to walk Barefoot through my dreams Wipe your feet You inhabit my world Hide in shadows Under my bed I’m too slurred with sleep To stuff you in my pyjama pocket Trap you in my memory Infuse you in […]
End of a Norwich Day
I received an email yesterday, which told me that three submissions to a magazine had not been successful. The first of these was a reworked poem I posted last September. The Norfolk sky expands, Airy, pale and blue, The city pavements fit Like a comfortable pair of shoes As I walk its easy […]
Remnants of Winter
Winter is wrung out A sodden rag hanging on Battling storms and wind Hoping for a glint of blue Promise in cloud-furrowed sky. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 