sunshine’s a memory stuffed into feathery clouds with tomorrow’s snow Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem Universal Jane #8 gathering clouds In this new episode of the Carpe Diem feature in honour of Jane Reichhold, Chèvrefeuille has inspired us with some ‘winter’ haiku by Jane: gathering clouds heavy and dark with holding […]
Month: December 2016
Conquest of Paradise
choir of angels raises heavenly voices musical conquest Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1088 Conquest Of Paradise by Vangelis Chèvrefeuille has shared a music video today called ‘Conquest of Paradise’ by Vangelis, a modern classical composer.
Frosty Silence
silence of fresh frost glistening on the footpath broken underfoot Kim M. Russell, 2016 Photograph by David Russell My twenty-third haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Honesty
In spring, at the end of my grandparents’ Otherwise tidy garden, I gazed for hours At scruffy clumps of white and purple flowers: Granddad called them honesty, Which puzzled me. I watched their pretty petals perish, Leaving brown paper parcels of seeds, Waiting to be buffeted on a breeze Whose windy fingers would peel away […]
6 am
Six o’clock is muted; A few birds mutter tentatively As if morning is disputed, Unsure of their internal clocks Due to the absent Crowing of the neighbour’s cock. The sky is opaque with autumn mist The colour of an old vest. Hanging from the pinch of plastic pegs, Limp washing drips. Silence sizzles. And then, […]
A Recipe for Insanity
eviscerate and bone me batter and bake me blind take my sweetness to the hard-crack stage and caramelise my mind splinter me brittle with mortar and pestle quadrille me with sanity fine-edged with a sharpening steel from your batterie de cuisine of the surreal Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics […]
Aerial Comes of Age
For the eleventh time this year, one of my poems has been published on-line by Visual Verse. It’s on page 14 of this month’s edition, Vol 4, Chapter 02, which is full of fantastic poetry and prose, all based on one unusual image. You can go to visual verse.org and read all the prose and poetry, […]
Little Hunter
I’ve been watching at the window for a little hunter to glide across the garden towards the house. I’ve spotted it in the tall trees and landing on the broken gate, hunting a mouse. Sometimes it steeps razor talons in soil, tugging on earthworms and toppling when they crack. I’m hoping that one morning soon […]
Words are not Required
words are not required music speaks its own language golden tongues of sound Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1087 String Symphony No. 4 in C minor by Mendelssohn Today we’re letting the music inspire us with Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 4 in C minor.
Silenced by Ivy
no flowers remain on the boa of ivy gagging the willow Kim M. Russell, 2016 My twenty-second haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
writing in north norfolk 