My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #74 music to inspire you generous flowers of sturdy simple yellow growing gently in a hedge’s shade dancing in fields and meadows shy in flowerbeds © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.henrystreet.co.uk
Month: March 2016
Green Cabbage
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: Green the humble cabbage has many leafy layers and a tender heart © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.medicalnewstoday.com
Early Morning Exaltation
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics : Poetry is for the Birds, inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29: “the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate”. Up with the lark’s early morning exaltation of exclamation curlicues and marks that punctuate the sky thrillingly trilling high above open fields […]
Crack of Spring
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #89 Shower&Play at the crack of spring a brief shower of flowers playing in the breeze © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Mightier than the Sword
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #105 The Lady of the Lake Has relinquished Excalibur, Released Merlin And taken up the pen. Her rhymes are regal, Metre magical; Poetry of romance, love and death Blown across the lake on misty breath. The Lady of the Lake does not mince words, Now that she […]
Breath of Spring
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: Yellow golden shadows strewn across the heath and roadside exhaling gorse scent © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on norfolknaturediary.uk
Persimmon
My response to Carpe Diem Special #203 Basho’s disciples: Mukai Kyorai’s “Master of Persimmons” with the weight of stones divine fruit falls from the tree tastes light as cloud © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Melting into Mourning
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – 5 – World Poetry Day – Melt In the graveyard, final moments melt like kisses on eyelids of the dead; sods of earth melt like shadows into the darkness of the grave. A small child, wandering between legs of adults, coats and trousers flapping in the […]
The End of Norfolk Giants
I am linking this post to Jacqui’s Echoes of my Neighbourhood over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. I know that some of her regular visitors have been interested in where I live, particularly in the local landscape and the lighthouse, and I promised something about windmills! I also wrote the poem below to accompany […]
The Blatherskite
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #102 Don’t listen to the blatherskite; He’ll only keep you up all night, Drinking drams of addictive nostrum, Spouting ephemera from a rostrum Commonly known as the public bar; Listening will not get you far. His tirades are always episodic, He spews forth views on any topic; Be very […]
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