My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ Because It Is My Heart ~ Micro Poetry Because it is my heart It does not drip blood; Instead, a muddle of words Drops into a puddle of mud And, because it is my heart, Not listening to my head, My hands create a homunculus To […]
Month: July 2016
Born in Stars
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt July 31st: We Are All Stars Vivid stained glass of evening sky Shatters into infinite shards, Crackling, pulsating, splintered light In a universe of bright stars, Dancing in and out of focus: A poetic hocus-pocus Of wordsmith, imagery and rhyme, Celestial celebration, Heavenly imagination – Poets on earth […]
Fairy Paths
My response to Carpe Diem #1010 Fairies In the final episode of Mysterious Nature month, the challenge is to create a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form on fairies inspired by the following image: fairy enchantment: magic gossamer weaving paths in the forest © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Star Poetry
My response to Elusive Trope’s Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge A brilliant star, poetry of decaying universe, lingers, a glass ghost melting in a liquid marble sky. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Dark Summer
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – Shadorma Summation – July 30, 2016 Five years have passed Since that dark summer, Amy Winehouse gone And you in a coma. I held your hand And said your name, Talking until you came Back and we thought Everything would be the same. You called […]
Grandmother’s 14th Birthday
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Kerry Says ~ Let’s Send a Postcard I have used a postcard sent to my grandmother in 1926 for her 14th birthday. I have a very small collection of cards she had saved and passed on to me. Between the wars Dark days were briefly forgotten […]
A Druid’s Path
My response to Carpe Diem #1009 druids mystical wisdom flows in sap of branch and leaf on the path of life © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.druidry.org
Mansion of Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt # 53: “Dreams” by The Corrs – although I prefer the original version by Fleetwood Mac: Lost in the midnight mansion, Wrap your dreams around you like a shawl. Take care as you mount the stairs, There’s no one to catch you if you fall. Open doors to empty rooms […]
Ogham
My response to Carpe Diem #1008 Ogham sign language from trees dark secrets and mysteries carved on bones and stones © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.historytoday.com
Seaside Beauties
My response to dVerse Poets Pub OpenLinkNight #176 For tonight’s Open Link I have reworked an old poem I wrote as a bit of fun last October about seaside beauty contests, which fascinated me when I was a child on day trips with my grandmother. I was reminded of it when I looked out of […]
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