My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille- Forest summer breeze stirs trees rippling lilies in a pool crystal reflection © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Day: March 16, 2016
New Soil
Driving back from this morning’s Bounce and Rhyme session at the local library, I passed a field in the process of being ploughed, which inspired this poem. feathery flock a splash of white g u l l s CRASH of wing waves against rich brown earth churned and cr um bl ing studded with […]
On First Seeing ‘Praying Hands’ by Dürer
When I first saw those honest hands, the bones and veins, the cross-hatched lines, fingertips together, gently clasped in prayer, captured in ink, I think I began to understand spirituality. Oh, to draw such a hand! © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Shakespeare’s Hands
A sonnet as my first, slightly whimsical, response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Can You Give Me a Hand? The young man’s hands were slender, quick and strong, Composing sonnets to his unknown muse, Creating worlds in drama and in song To challenge the emotions and amuse. The busy writer’s hands were stained with […]
Nobody Sees
My response to Carpe Diem Special #202 Basho’s Disciples: Shiba Sonome’s “nobody sees” there are many shades of green in the countryside invisible hues © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Squaring the Circle
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #73 pi-ku another nice poetry form (reprise) ratio of circumference to the diameter irrational and transcendental © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
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