There was a young astronaut from Earth Who dreamed of space travel from birth. He was so bored in space, He kept feeding his face And returned with a gigantic girth. There was once a young woman from Norwich Who refused to finish her porridge. Her Scottish boyfriend Who came from Hell’s Glen Said, ‘Eat […]
Month: April 2017
Not so successful…
were the two poems I submitted to the National Memory Day Creative Writing Competition: Earthquake We had already experienced active faults, grandparents who were victims of age assaults, unable to name the rumbles and shakes of dementia earthquakes. And then we noticed your primary waves of forgetfulness, distance and those days when you disappeared behind […]
Longlisted!
I’ve just found out that my poem ‘The Benevolence of Barnacles’ was long-listed in The Rialto Nature and Place Poetry Competition 2017. Sadly I didn’t win a prize but this is a small step in the right direction. The results and long list can be read by following this link: https://www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2017/04/27/nature-and-place-winners-announced/.
Hydrogen
At nearly seven-thirty, it’s chilly, with reports of snow on the coast. After overnight rain, the sky is clear, no snow here and the sun, a hot-air balloon burning atomic number one, wears a Mona Lisa smile – she’s in her element and discrete in her experiments. Kim M. Russell, 27th April 2017 Image found […]
This Little Piggy
A little girl holds on to a chair, teetering in her mother’s shoes, shiny leather stilettos, her feet squashed down into the toes. Granny smiles, forgets for a moment the bunions on her aching feet, the pain when walking down the street, the raw skin and unbearable heat. After bath time, with pyjamas on, they […]
Siberian Ginseng
shy woodland briar with a warrior’s vigour ancient remedy Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1198 (theme week 4) Acanthopanax (Ukogi) or Eleutherococcus Sieboldianus or Siberian Ginseng In the final episode of this month’s theme-week we have another classical spring kigo: Acanthopanax (Ukogi). This plant, also known as […]
Unconditional Love Day 12
surreptitious joy shadows in the night garden wildlife is at play Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love
Acrostic Art
Gun-metalled and straight-backed In shadow, looking Ahead at what’s Coming, reconciled with death: Open- mouthed, e- Maciated, E-tiolated To their bitter ends: Twisted Idols. Kim M. Russell, 26th April 2017 Alberto Giacometti at the 31° Venice Biennale in 1962, photographed by Paolo Monti (Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC) – image found on Wikipedia On Day 26 […]
A New Pot
Ripped from the comfort of familiar soil my roots feel the limits of a pot; my shoots are anxious to uncurl before they shrivel up and rot. Other plants on the window sill are greener, more colourful than me, the tulips and the daffodils bursting from their bulbs with glee. I feed on dreams of […]
Butterbur
purple-tinged flowers offering from heart-shaped leaves nature’s remedy Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1197 (theme week 3) Butterbur (Fuki no Tou)
writing in north norfolk 