Chain-stitching a rosy sunset, geese arrive in a cloud of fieldfares and redwings, a blizzard of snow buntings blown north to south. There’s an explosion of wings, no soaring, no gliding, just metronomic beating and a goose symphony of honks and whistles. The water ripples, in a shower of drops they rise and fade Into […]
Day: December 1, 2016
Raindrops and Music
an open window they drip from my umbrella preludes and raindrops Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1082 Raindrops (Chopin) December 2016 is all about letting the music inspire us. In this first episode, Chèvrefeuille hopes to inspire us with a beautiful piece of music by Chopin, about whom he has given us […]
Blank Silence
a blank page or screen anticipates poetry words break the silence Kim M. Russell, 2016 Fountain pen wallpaper found on www.leighreyes.com My seventeenth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence