My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 10th 2016 For this week’s Heeding Haiku episode the challenge is to create a new haiku inspired by the following: evening sea fog descending into sun-dried grass sweaty lovers © Jane Reichhold This is my tribute to Jane: sparkles of sunshine caught in ripples of swan’s wake […]
Month: August 2016
Liquid Blue Octave
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. […]
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
Redolence
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle Special Addition Scent “August 8th, 2016” That October night resounds Not in sights and sounds But in the redolence Of the moment You took me in your arms. You were late, Lost on the Norfolk coast, The sunshine of the day Had faded into mist And autumn darkness, Your earthy […]
Normal is an Illusion
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #171 “Collage 27” “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly” is a quote from Charles Addams On the wings of a summer buzz, a fly alights on a white corona, wrapped in the acrid aroma of Queen Anne’s lace. The sun […]
A Spider’s Crystal
My response to Carpe Diem #1017 true secret Chèvrefeuille has chosen a quote from the English designer and poet William Morris to inspire us: “The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.” hanging from a strand at the heart of a cobweb a drop […]
White Lily
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week (6) 2 Utabukuro Jane Reichhold This Theme Week is a tribute to Jane and today Chèvrefeuille has asked us to share a favourite haiku by Jane Reichhold and write a new haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form in her honour. watercolor paper stopping a wave with a […]
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