My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #79 Looking Back In Time … “Sparkling Stars” each cherry petal enfolded in a raindrop the show is over © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Month: May 2016
Echoes of an Autumn Walk
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #112 and dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday Raindrops from a recent shower release a pungent whiff of mulch from the litter of autumn in various states of decay. In dry patches, below a dense lattice of branches, rusty skeletons crunch underfoot and beetles scuttle, while my boots slip […]
Unfurling Tendrils
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 10th “the willow leaves fallen” by Yosa Buson the willow leaves fallen, the spring gone dry, rocks here and there © Yosa Buson (1716-1784) weeds emerge from shady cracks […]
Nature’s Secrets
My response to the secret keeper Weekly Writing Prompt #36 Light breeze drifts, Breathes distinctive scents: Salt and life, Shingle beach, Wilderness of marsh and reed Hold nature’s secrets. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Letting the Genie Out
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #108 Sky is trapped In a crystal flask. Amethyst Bleeds from cracks, Leaches into Earth’s creases, Wearing misty clouds. Drawbacks of Sidereal wish: Duration, Impatience, Furious rubatosis Once the genie’s out. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tree of Life
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 9th “autumn leaves turn red” by Georgia (a.k.a. Bastet) a dream in a dream sand slipping through old fingers autumn leaves turn red © Georgia naïve green garments of youth become rich robes of wisdom © Kim M. Russell […]
Abandoned
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini-Challenge: Harrows and Hallows Pernicious parents, Distorted trees split open, Exposing hearts Of writhing tendrils. Throwing swollen limbs akimbo, They abandon mewling saplings To stodgy black bogs and fells, Crinkled as old men’s faces From nightmare tales. Orphans of the environment Forsaken on the craggy […]
Suspended
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt: May 8 2016: The Tarot – Major Arcana – The Hanged Man The Hanged Man ©wintersmagic on deviantart Dusty daffodil yellow Has disappeared Along with callow Buds and leaves Overpowered By fluorescent fields Of rapeseed flowers And golden gorse Hints that summer Waits off-stage Waiting for new colours In […]
Dragonfly Dance
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 7th a haiku by Tomas Tranströmer Chevrefeuille has challenged us to create a Tan Renga based on a haiku by Tomas Tranströmer, one of the featured haiku poets in 2015. A dragonfly pair fastened to one another went flickering past […]
A Mother’s Love
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – Madrigal This week Bastet has treated us to a mini history of Italian poetry and introduced us to the Italian madrigal, a pastoral or love song written in lines of seven or eleven syllables and consisting of two or three tercets followed by one or […]
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