Autumn sepia-tints gathering clouds copper: at three o’clock the day is already drawing curtains on a red and white chimney rising from the other bank of the Oder, piercing the horizon, its smoke a white wind sock frozen while the weather takes a breath. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille […]
Day: November 21, 2016
The Meeting of the Ways
How many poets and songwriters Have written about the parting of the ways? What about the time when they first meet, When eyes lock, lips touch, fingers tangle As you wander together down the same street? The only signs you need are body language, Exploration of thought and tongue, Locked in a metaphysical conversation Where […]
Acedia
I wallow like a walrus In my laziness, Unable to work or play Or even pray, Scrawling somatic lingua franca On the walls of my acedia. I remain in front of the television, Ignoring my friends’ derision, Watching soaps from the Antipodes. When the doorbell rings, I pull myself to my knees, Uncoil my spine […]
Gardening in the Autumn Rain
soaked by constant rain the gardener rakes autumn in a gaudy pile © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem Special Japanese Poetry In The Lowlands #4 Mariëtte Schrijver In this new Carpe Diem Special, Chèvrefeuille has introduced another Dutch haiku poet, Mariëtte Schrijver, who started creating haiku and senryu quite recently and was […]
Gaudy Trap
threads of bright raindrops hang in the frosty hedgerow autumn necklaces sparkling and captivating – a hungry spider’s waiting © Kim M. Russell, 2016 spider web by LeQuip on DeviantArt My response to Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #21 Spider’s Web Today we have an autumn prompt, ‘spider’s web’, and Chèvrefeuille has shared a haiga with the following […]
Guilty Chrysanthemum
imperial blooms and golden globes of autumn chrysanthemum sprays in churches and hospitals guilt at the petrol station © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.dailymail.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #20 Chrysanthemums In this episode of Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor, following yesterday’s 7th Tanka Writing Technique by Teika, ‘clever treatment’, Chèvrefeuille’s prompt is […]
Out of Shadows
sizzle of white noise slithers out of sleep shadows silence is broken © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My seventh haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
At About Six O’clock
I watch morning creep through the blind, a peeping tom or sneak thief invading our room. You are still a shadow hunched in the middle of the bed, soothed by the loud ticking of the clock imitating the rhythm of heavy rock, while I savour sizzling silence. I pad barefoot down the stairs to feed […]
