echo of footsteps in lamplight’s lonely shadows leads the foot-weary through cold, late-night city streets in the direction of home © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #17 loneliness In this Tanka Splendor episode, the prompt is loneliness and Chèvrefeuille has shared a tanka and a haiku on this topic. all […]
Month: November 2016
Silent Padlocks
on the lamp-lit bridge metal locks symbols of love in silent embrace © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My sixth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Bubbles of Silence
noisy waterfall bounces down rocks creating bubbles of silence © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My fifth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Silent Lights
in the busy square the premature Christmas tree lights remain silent © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Christmas Tree in the Market Square in Wroclaw in preparation for Christmas My fourth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Breaking the Silence
in the stark silence of winter mornings a single crow calls © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Photo by David Russell My third haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Silent Windowbox
only naked soil fills the winter windowbox bulbs sleep silently © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My second haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Yellow Silence
a dandelion’s yellow silence radiates in a field of green © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 16th 2016 find the silence and shared on Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence In a new week of Heeding Haiku…, Chèvrefeuillewould like us to write a […]
Open to Dawn
adorned with a star hanging on broken hinges paint flakes from the gate open to a muddy field and a sky full of dawn light © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image by David Russell My response to Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #16 Teika’s Sixth Tanka Writing Technique “visual description” (prompt: waterfall) Today Chèvrefeuille has brought us […]
Inspired by Basho
solitary crow conspicuous in bare limbs of an autumn tree the caw of a crow echoes hollow loneliness in leafless seasons © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image by David Russell My response to Carpe Diem Universal Jane #7 Basho (the translations) This Wednesday sees a new episode of Universal Jane, a weekly feature in which we […]
The Seafarer’s Garden – Reprise
Merged in a wash of blatant blue, Ocean and sky meet in a kiss, The seafarer surveys the view, Standing alone in private bliss That slopes down to a steep cliff’s edge, Scattered with feverfew and sedge, Where each brash dahlia tempts a bee. But a sailor cannot forget the sea: Like ships’ masts coming […]
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