My response to Carpe Diem #1016 picturing the haiku Chèvrefeuille has given us an inspirational quote from Jane Reichhold, who recently passed away: “One of the most important actions a reader takes is picturing the haiku images in his or her mind.” snapshot of a thought, colours and shadows merging: haiku images © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Month: August 2016
Inhaling Jane’s Wisdom
My response to Carpe Diem Extra August 6th 2016 first tribute Theme Week Jane Reichhold This week Chèvrefeuille has dedicated an extra Theme Week in memory of Jane Reichhold. In this first episode we are sharing our thoughts and favourite haiku by Jane. Reading her words was like discovering haiku for the first time and […]
Reflections
My response to Carpe Diem #1015 streaming water Chèvrefeuille has given us a quote from Lao Tzu, a Chinese philosopher of Daoism: “One cannot reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.” Nature’s reflections in the stillness of water free the peaceful soul. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 […]
Could We Explore Eternity?
My response to Elusive Trope’s Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge Could we explore eternity listening to delicious poetry, remembering poison words, hard as marble, haunting a porcelain universe? © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The seventh poem in Visual Verse
I am so pleased that a seventh submission has been included in the latest online Visual Verse anthology. At the moment, my poem ‘Surviving the Oil Slick of Sisterhood’ is on page 21: http://visualverse.org
Silent and Soft
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – August 6, 2016 This week Candy has chosen a poem from a book she discovered in a book sale by James Kavanaugh, an American poet, new to me too: Soft And Silent Everything I love is soft and silent, My cat, the morning, the end of […]
Night Comfort
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #109 This week Chèvrefeuille has introduced us to a haiku by Yasomura Rotsu, a not so well known haiku-poet, and challenged us to compose a second stanza of two lines to add to it: higon-mae samusa mo hito-yo futa-yo kana before the spring equinox the cold will last only […]
In Prospero’s Cave
My response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt – Liminal– #writephoto The sea mounted to the welkin’s cheek And brought a prince called Ferdinand, Shipwrecked and lost on foreign sand, Subject to Prospero’s command, A spirit in Miranda’s eyes: A thing divine. Thoughts of Miranda made labour sweet; She was created of every creature’s best But […]
Unconditional
Redoubtable you, with your firm beliefs and arguments, your sensitive soul is written in my universe, intoned in my music, woven into the fabric of everything. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Preamble to Dreams
My response to Ramblings of a Writer’s Weekly Tanka Prompt Challenge Week 4 – Explore & Beautiful Explore the nightscape of beautiful moon shadows shaping and dappling uninterrupted darkness in the preamble to dreams. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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