My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #82: out my kitchen window Outside my kitchen window, a jungle Steams rampant after morning rain. Creeping snake-like tendrils strangle Branches seeping with Bougainvillea stain And laden with elephant epiphytes. Wildlife sips from overflowing orchids Among leaves the colour of essonite And bubbling tanks of bromeliads. Vanilla vapours […]
Month: August 2016
The Drought is Over
My response to Carpe Diem #1034 let the rain kiss you Kristjaan has given today’s inspirational quote the title “let the rain kiss you” and it’s from the African-American poet Langston Hughes (1902-1967): “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” […]
Smile
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 24th 2016 a new dawn, a new day, a new life early morning walk I smile at the scarecrow’s silk pocket handkerchief © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Closing Petals
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 […]
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
Drama in the Sky
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday: The Sky IS the Limit Toni is our host this Haibun Monday and she has asked us to write our haibun about the day sky – from dawn to dusk and any time in between. Norfolk is known for its flatness and big, wide open skies, where […]
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