My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year Celebration Part 1, Catching Up with Brian Miller also shared on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform Every year, My grandmother Aired the hand sewn Summer quilt and placed It on my childhood bed. On sunny Sunday Mornings, we traced A patchwork journey, Each square a story […]
Month: July 2016
The Ballad of Methuselah and Dahlia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #118 “July 18th, 2016” Methuselah was the barkeep At the local bar and grill, Who had a presentiment For every kind of evil. Below a wall of antlers, He stood behind his counter, Struggling to choose Between life as a hunter And as a residual booze Serving guardian angel To […]
Butterfly Ascension
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #5 (1) Ascension, introduction Woken by the sun, from the safety of cocoons butterflies ascend. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Ascension Of The Butterfly Women by Roberta Baker found on fineartamerica.com
Hai-Kerouac
My response to Carpe Diem Special #215 Jack Kerouac’s “white clouds”, where Chèvrefeuille has shared two more beautiful yet somewhat strange haiku by Kerouac to inspire us to create a new haiku, with the aim of capturing the spirit of Kerouac: White clouds of this steamy planet obstruct My vision of the blue void White rose with red splashes – Oh Vanilla ice cream cherry! © Jack Kerouac My inspired haiku are […]
Two Haiku Inspired by Kerouac
My response to Carpe Diem Utabukuro #13 “a balloon caught” by Jack Kerouac I found it so hard to choose, I have been inspired by two favourite Kerouac haiku: The bottoms of my shoes are clean from walking in the rain. © Jack Kerouac My shoes leave imprints on the kitchen floor, tracking […]
Reed Rhapsody
My response to Carpe Diem #1000 Reed Congratulations on Carpe Diem’s 1000th regular prompt! In windy marshes, home to wildfowl and waders, the reeds are singing. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Birdsong Choka
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – July 16, 2016. Bastet has asked us to write our reflections about change either by using a Choka (formed by writing any number of 5/7 syllable couplets and ending the poem with an extra seven-syllable line) or a Shadorma (a non-rhyming six-line poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables) or perhaps a Shadorma variation. We should choose […]
Wisteria
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #107 wisteria sways – pendulous blossoms in breeze unspoken promise © Pat R (a.k.a. Jazzytower) invasive heady perfume envelops poisonous seeds © Kim M. Russell Wisteria (also known as “blue rain”
Intertwined
I have taken the haiku from a previously posted haibun as my response to Carpe Diem #999 Ivy curly willow weeps in the stranglehold of ivy relinquished to love © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Corby
My reponse to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Words Count With Mama Zen Massive raven, clever corby dear, your spirit will ever haunt me here, with your jabbing bill and loyal mate, with whom you would quarrel, call and grate. I still hear the rustle of your jet wings and the rattling lid of the […]
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