My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Fairy Tale Prompt When I was a child, I remember reading The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen and wondering about the little robber girl who helped Gerda in her search for Kai, who had been lured away by the Snow Queen. One freezing, dark night in the middle of […]
Day: April 22, 2016
The Wedding Dress
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Form-For-All/Meeting the Bar; Décima I accompanied my only daughter to her first wedding dress fitting yesterday, which inspired me to write the following decima. Naturally, I can’t include a picture of the dress, so I here’s one of my daughter as a toddler! You, in a champagne froth of […]
Angles in Tangles
I have deconstructed an old poem as a response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; episode 5 leafless tree there are triangles in the bare branches of trees angles in tangles sharpness smoothed by light tracing ghostly foliage smoothing the edges © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Slaking the Thirst
My response to Carpe Diem #959 rain / raindrops rain drops slide down leaves drains and gutters overflow slaking thirsty plants © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 