In the silver silent dead Of a lethargic night, Pain is an owl caught in a dazzling headlight, Whose glaring eyes of red Steer gliding flight on white wing Towards the cold metallic glimmer of morning. Pain twists like an owl’s head, Grips with talons of crushing power, Tears with the sharpness of […]
Day: September 21, 2016
Revising Basho’s Flute
clusters of flowers freed from the musician’s flute floating melodies © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille September 21st 2016 Revise that haiku This week Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to ‘revise’ a haiku written by one of the classical haiku poets. He has chosen a […]
Changing Shifts at Twilight
diffusion of light fleeting in-between moment ambiguous time when daytime birds stop singing owls and nightingales begin I’ve also taken a poem I posted last December and reworked it into a new tanka: the moon is opaque a soft veil – a thin thumbnail a comma in a long day a no time between sunset […]
writing in north norfolk 