The harsh heat of summer Has run its course, Leaving seasonal clues Of paler blues And hedgerows full Of tender blackberries. Hawthorn and rowan trees droop With the weight of fruit, And crab apples spill In a carpet of swarming wasps. Outside windows, Threatening crane flies pose On long, spindly legs, aliens Clamouring to enter […]
Day: September 12, 2016
Indecision
Life is a codex Of cinematic Sehnsucht For the perfect past Of twenty-twenty vision, Feinting indecision And fear of a formidable future. While other people’s lives glisten With undiscovered or important Minerals of the moment, I drift between noun And navel-gazing, Unable To choose. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle […]
Summer Calm
bird song under a shady tree summer calm © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1051 Calm With this new episode of our tribute to Jane Reichhold month we are entering the next season, summer. Chèvrefeuille has chosen another modern kigo from Jane Reichhold’s A Dictionary of Haiku: a certain calm in summer’s […]
Hopeful Snowdrops
bare trees and grey sky long winter nights stretch ahead stars and icicles hopeful snowdrops awaken early tender shoots of spring © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem Special #218 Dolores’ 2nd “dreaming of spring” For this second CD-Special of September, Chèvrefeuille has chosen another tanka by Dolores, “dreaming of spring” that […]
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