Another Golden Shovel poem, with opening lines from Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘North’. You and I have finally returned. We found our way back to roots and branches of a family tree, long buried in a small churchyard near a strand in the wave-hammered storm-swept curve and wind-whispering embrace of a west coast bay. We […]
Month: May 2016
Digging for poems
My response to dVerse Meeting the Bar: the Golden Shovel Form Above, below and in between I trace familiar features with my Fumbling, feathery finger. Up, down, under and Over, I feel well-worn skin with my Tentative thumb Memorising the Tensions before I squat Over the ink pot, filling a pen That rarely rests Knowing […]
Petal lanterns and chandeliers
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 6th “petal lanterns” petal lanterns — a waterfall of flowers her lips touch mine © Hamish Managua Gunn the world’s illuminated by a thousand chandeliers © Kim M. Russell
Traffic Lights
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #64: May 5 2016: School Yard Games She knew he was red-light dangerous, The kind of guy her friends warned her about, One to avoid when the lights went out. But red is a colourful aphrodisiac, A silken poppy on a summer’s day. She couldn’t let her bad […]
A Cup of Morning Dew
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 5th (4) morning glory! the well bucket-entangled, I ask for water © Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775) sweet dew gathered in petals fills my cup and slakes my thirst © Kim M. Russell Image found on Pinterest
Happy!
I logged on this morning and was happy to see the poem I submitted to Visual Verse has been published on-line; I found it on page thirty-nine!
Distance
My response to dVerse Poetics – Sentiments of the Southwest Living on this small, waterlogged island, thousands of miles from America’s Southwest, North Norfolk skies are expansive and wide, dramatic skyscapes painted in colours of storms and summertime. I try to picture abundant rolling hills while standing on flatland – no prairies but fields of […]
Tracks
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille May 4th 2016 kishadoo no ichidan takaki fuyuta kana Winter rice fields– railroad tracks running a level above them © Shiki children play in fields below leaving tracks across the […]
Passing Seasons
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #78 Soliloquy no Renga “autumn night” by Santoka Taneda Chevrefeuille has challenged us to write a Soliloquy no Renga, which is a renga written by one poet, adding our own stanzas to create a “solo-renga”. A renga has two kinds of stanzas, three lined stanza and two lined stanza […]
Saying Goodbye to the Island
I just received another email to say that this poem made the shortlist but unfortunately didn’t make the final cut. The magazine to which I submitted had a great many submissions.They wished me the best of luck publishing this work quickly elsewhere. The sea rises Eating away the coast Until the village Becomes an island ghost […]
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