A poem for children Little beaming suns Suddenly appear In lawns and meadows. Butterflies feed On the nectar of their yellow. As fluffy seed clocks, Children help them on their way, Telling time of day, As does the wind, Floating parachutes of seed Far and wide. In autumn, Their toothy leaves go unseen And […]
Day: March 1, 2016
Dragonfly Dance
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #86 Flash&Dance Electric blue flash Shimmer of dragonfly dance In summer garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on todayilearned.co.uk
Flowers
I was planning to bring you flowers But they fade and die You no longer see living plants In a garden Or a park So I brought you something more lasting Unusual A purple tinged succulent In a glass cube Transparent You can see the soil The moss and roots And then I saw the […]
Guards and peacocks
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #8 – journey/travel At sixteen, I had been on just two holidays: one with the school when I was ten, and one with a friend and her family when I was twelve, both to the Isle of Wight. So my first visit to Cologne before moving there […]
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