My response to Carpe Diem #1033 the cold night Today’s quote is from Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681, Spanish dramatist, writer and poet: “These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night’s arms.” day is at an […]
Day: August 23, 2016
Messages in the Trenches
This is a poem I reworked from one I wrote and posted on 3rd July and submitted to a competition. It didn’t get anywhere but I thought I’d post it here. They struggled across no-man’s land, Tattered remnants On their way back to a mud-filled trench. Buried deep beneath their feet (Unlike their fallen […]
Parting at Dawn
This is a very late response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #44: Ghazal For some reason, I haven’t been seeing Jane’s challenges lately and I hated missing this one – I haven’t come across a ghazal before – it’s a tricky one and I do love a challenge… …which was to write a ghazal, a […]
Poetical Spouses
I have the honour of hosting tonight’s dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Poetical Spouses. My challenge is inspired by Carol Ann Duffy’s collection of poems, The World’s Wife, in which she presented characters, stories, histories and myths from the point of view of the ‘women behind the men’. We are taking a character, fictional or […]
Walking in the River of Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #127, also linked to imaginary garden with real toads The Tuesday Platform Brooke Shaden Photography Slow and deep By the overgrown bank of sleep, Dreams slip, cold and slow-moving, Bearing dead leaves, a floating feather; Fantasy distilled by the flow of water. Emerging from the river and […]
Heavenly Jigsaw
My response to Carpe Diem #1032 pieces of heaven “On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.” Jules Renard (1864-1910) in the cool shadows of the garden, a small piece of heaven’s jigsaw . © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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