My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Breathing in Blue also shared on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform De (WhimsyGizmo) has inspired us with photos from her visit to Lake Tahoe – “Lake of the Sky” and, for this week’s Poetics, asks us to look up, breathe in some blue, and breathe out a poem. […]
Day: August 9, 2016
Hands
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #125 When he reached out to take her hand, She knew it was the start Of his journey to her heart: Their worlds collided, Hands touched, Sculpting her skin With fingertips And his lips Reading each scar, Each line on her palm; Smoothing cracks And callouses, Healing the […]
Romance and Sea Mist
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: A Little Romance: Toni has challenged us to pen a romantic haibun. Although we’ve known each other since childhood, we’d been babies in prams in parallel roads, ran around the playground together when we were six years old and had shy crushes on each other as teenagers, I hadn’t […]
Morning Haiku
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 3 The knowledge of Jane In this Theme Week episode Chèvrefeuille has shared an article, “Another Attempt to Define Haiku”, written by Jane Reichhold in 1996. He has asked us to comment on what we have learnt from her and to share haiku and tanka inspired by […]
Resonance
My response to Carpe Diem #1018 Temple bell Today’s inspirational prompt is a quote from Matsuo Basho: “The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” summer sunset fades echoes of pink afterglow resonating clouds © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 