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 […]
Month: April 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
Rising Lotus Flower
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; 4 watch birth and death a lotus flower rises from a murky pond opens clean and pure © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Sweetness of Nature
My haibun in response to Carpe Diem Special #207 Sara McNulty’s third “taste of nature” The trellis is already straining under a mass of tangled honeysuckle bines, dotted with pink buds and one or two early flowers. This particular plant blooms twice: once in spring and again in the summer. It grows beside a mature […]
Tara
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Folk talk Not long after I moved to Ireland in 1980, when my daughter was born, we lived near the Hill of Tara in County Meath. I always thought she was a changeling! Running up the Hill of Tara Sentinel over the River Boyne, Ancient seat Of the kings […]
Final Moments
I deconstructed a poem I posted in March to create a haiku in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille dark handfuls of earth final moments like kisses melt into mourning © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com
Flaming into Autumn
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; (3) ginkgo leaves are falling ancient gingko tree cooling green fans of summer flame into autumn © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Images found on en.wikipedia.org
Savannah Clouds
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #76 Celestine, our “runner-up” of the “time”-kukai in the spotlight – afriku wind shifts at midday clouds above the savannah squeeze first drops of rain © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
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