Screwing up his face, Simon squinted and fixed his eyes on the fireflies dancing and leaping above the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden. It was a late summer afternoon and he remembered his father telling him that fireflies only came out when it was dark. The six-year-old boy stood on tiptoe a […]
Day: July 8, 2016
Coulrophobia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt #50: Send in the Clowns I don’t like clowns, They make me scared; The ones with red noses and untameable hair, Send them away. I don’t feel safe. I don’t approve. Rowdy, disruptive and always on the move, Boisterous clowns. I don’t like clowns. I prefer the […]
Fraxinus Excelsior
My response to Carpe Diem #993 Ash Ash, tree of healing, Spreads its leafy canopy, heals the lonely soul with bright berries and winged seeds, helicopters in the breeze. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on treegrowersdiary.com
Willow in the Rain (reprise)
My response to Carpe Diem #992 Willow – I have taken one of the first poems I posted last year, deconstructed it and turned it into a tanka. a bothersome breeze buffets the willow bending with the weight of tears, holding up anaemic clouds above our soggy garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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