My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads ~ Where Do I Come From? I introduced this poem you Year 7 students when I was still teaching and they produced some wonderful poems. I hope I can do it justice! Where do I come from? You may well ask. I am from monochrome photographs, […]
Day: April 25, 2016
Toad Nonet
My response to the Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #34 Each spring, toads leave hibernacula, Take a trip from rock crevices, Leaf piles and drains to gather In ponds, streams and rivers, Some with eyes of fire. Writhing webbed feet Melt my heart, Make me Smile. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on forums2.gardenweb.com
Alphabet Soup
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Bonus Wordle “Alphabet Soup” Trees performing arabesques Raise their branches, a complex Latticework, a deadfall Trapping clouds and stars In error, collecting drops in reservoirs, Dripping foliage all awash, Silhouettes in a lightning flash. Their trunks are gnarled With bark like gristle, Their knots are hard, Their twigs like bristles That […]
Thunderstorm
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P Shadorma & Beyond – Nursery Rhymes Hear the whistle of the wind; It is making such a din. Hear the patter of the rain Up against the windowpane. Hear the crash of thunder loud, A giant hiding in the clouds. Hear the lightning sparks ignite; We are staying […]
Common Terns
My response to Carpe Diem #962 bird feathers Image found on http://www.rspb.org.uk haunting the wetlands sea swallows soar and plunge feathered acrobats © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 