Amongst mounds of stones and sand at the foot Of crumbling cliffs, where Norfolk juts its chin, Stubborn and defiant as King Canute Watching the waves roll out and crash back in On flat landscape from Yarmouth to King’s Lynn, A rich treasury of ancient fossils, Cached by glaciers in the primeval Landscape almost a […]
Day: August 28, 2016
Song of the Grasshopper
grasshopper in cropped copper fields calls to clouds sings to storms above whispered promises wind in the stubble © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond: Twelfth Song – August 27, 2016. Welcome back to Paloma, who has given us a Navajo ceremonial chant and song lyrics by Rich Mullins […]
Solitary Joy
in wide open fields susurration of summer clouds and wild flowers are my only company secret solitary joy © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1037 pleasure, with another beautiful quote from Lord Byron (1788-1824): “There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society […]