evening promenade by the lazy Serpentine bandstand serenade Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest: Edward Le Bas – The Bandstand at Hyde Park, London My response to Carpe Diem #1097 Serenade in D major by Ethel Smyth Chèvrefeuille has really been doing his homework and brought us a composition by another female composer […]
Month: December 2016
it is not as if I kept a list
you know the scene already but I will set it up for you- it was snowing a few days before Christmas and he put his jacket around my shoulders the smell of leather, a memory rose between us in the c… Source: it is not as if I kept a list I so enjoyed this […]
Gemstone Winds
Beyond the Solar System, in the Cygnus constellation, a hot Jupiter orbits, enormous, gaseous planet of intense light and heat locked face to face with its parent star in space. Colossal clouds of corundum, a ruby and sapphire conundrum of unimaginable tone, are blasted by fickle, violent winds, hot as hell and cool as diamonds. […]
Snardiffanous
I would love to go to Snardiff on the rhambangle train but I’ve heard that in Snardiff it’s likely to rain cats and dogs, if it’s not spitting leaves or feathers; it’s known to the locals as snardiffanous weather. If I don’t go, it’s no calamity because it’s dry and warm at home and full of […]
Outside My Front Door
outside my front door frost-bittten weeds wither between the gravel bashful birds flit in and out of a thorny hedgerow tendrils of woodbine intertwine with creeping ivy and wrestle with a fence festooned with a tracery of gossamer and silver snail spoors Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver # 96 […]
Great Wall of China
twisting and turning over mountainous terrain ancient dragon guards Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1096 The Great Wall of China by Einar Englund, Today’s music is by Einar Englund, a Finnish composer, and is called ‘The Great Wall of China’.
Frost Art
early morning frost sketching cobwebs and snail trails with a silver touch Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, December 14th 2016, Mixing It Up, a Haiku Writing Techniques In this new episode, Chèvrefeuille has introduced a haiku writing technique and challenged us to use it. […]
Rock Sculpture
unblinking eye in a grey socket of rock sculpted by water Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu My response to Carpe Diem Universal Jane #9 Naked Rock (AHA-poetry 2013) For this Universal Jane episode Chèvrefeuille has shared a few haiku from Jane’s book Naked Rock (2013) to inspire us, as well as two […]
Mantra
percussion the kiss of wood and metal musical mantra Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1095 Six Japanese Gardens by Kaija Saariaho Today Chèvrefeuille has introduced us to Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer I have never heard of, and her ‘Six Japanese Gardens’. He has also shared one of his own haiku […]
Death of a Star
brightest cosmic flash soundless explosion in space death throes of a star Kim M. Russell, 2016 My thirtieth and final haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
writing in north norfolk 