A bit of spooky whimsy as my response to Sue Vincent – Daily Echo Thursday photo prompt – Glimpsed – #writephoto Out of the corner of my eye Shadows moved My breath froze Three figures rose Beyond the window Or were they trapped In ancient glass Through which spirits Cannot pass The foggy forms Like drifting […]
Month: August 2016
Lost to the Sea
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt # 56: The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers It was once a flourishing coastal resort Mentioned in the Domesday survey, With a toll on every fishing boat That washed its nets within the village boundary. Never a stranger to North Sea outrages, The village crept […]
Weeping Willow
My response to Carpe Diem #1028 sadness Today’s inspiration quote: “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” Khalil Gibran below the willow can’t imagine tomorrow drowning in sorrow © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Sensual Tanka
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Form: Tanka Toni is our host this evening and we are exploring the Tanka. I have three to share: the first is one I wrote earlier this year and the second and third have been reworked. rising fragrant steam hovers above the tea cup waiting for […]
Persephone and the Pomegranate
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #81 /Fairy Tale August 18 – Magic Fruit Daughter of the goddess Of fertility and harvest, Persephone had a beauty so rare That Hades was enraptured; He craved her for his wife And had her captured, Condemned to a life In the Underworld, With nothing to drink or […]
Phototropism
My response to Carpe Diem #1027 movement Today’s inspirational quote is from Chèvrefeuille himself: “Haiku is the poetry of nature and nature is always in motion. Seasons come and go, the moon changes every 28 days and so on, the only thing which is steady and without clear motion is our sun, that big star […]
Satnav
This is the first poem I have written following an exercise from The Poetry School in moving from the abstract to the concrete. See if you can work out which abstract noun it is about! I’m linking it to Imaginary Garden with Real Taods’ Tuesday Platform. We follow her instructions, The disembodied female voice Of […]
A Summer Kitten’s Tail
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 17th 2016 … a summer tale This week it is haibun time again, for which Chèvrefeuille has asked us to: follow the classical rules for the haiku; write a maximum of 150 words, including the haiku; and write on the theme of ‘A Summer Tale’. The […]
My Mother’s Smile
My response to Carpe Diem #1026 Smile Today’s inspirational quote is from Mother Teresa (1910-1997): “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” lined and thinned with age the ghost of her smile survives a spark in blue eyes © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The Soundtrack to Your First Embrace
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Sound of Love. This evening Walt has challenged us to explore the SOUND of love. You fold your arms around her With a whisper of wings, Your breath in her ear Like sea in a shell, washing A distant shore and yet so near. Your heart gallops, A […]
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