My response to Carpe Diem #997 apple cascades of blossom: promises of autumn fruit’s cider-scented flesh © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Klimt’s Apple Tree found on www.klimtgallery.org
Day: July 13, 2016
Lunar Tricks
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #39: Sleep walking ‘Le Somnambule’ by Marc Chagall Midnight, no stars in the sky. By the light of the moon sleepwalkers are at it again – drowning. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Rising from Pavements (a shadorma reprise)
I decided to deconstruct and re-write this poem following racist attacks in which a Polish community centre in London and a Romanian shop in Norwich were vandalised after the vote to leave the EU. I posted the original poem last August, which was inspired by a photograph my husband took on a trip to Wroclav, […]
Drowned Optimism
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini-Challenge: Shallows, Deeply I realise I’m a bit late but I really liked the look of this challenge: to show there still be dragons below and within and around us and find something deep in a shallow world, writing deeply in a shallow space—using little, saying […]
A Quiet Moment
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #87 Back In Time “Carpe Diem’s Japanese Garden” and Mindlovemisery Menagerie Heeding Haiku shallow stone birdbath – a dusty robin splashes in sun’s reflection © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.animalphotos.me