youth and blossom fade turning autumn leaves bring warmth colouring old age Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love
Month: May 2017
A Taste for Arsenic
I resist the urge to touch my tongue to the toxic crystals, leaden grey, stir the poison in, although not so long for it to eat the spoon away. Not a year have I been his wedded wife and already his voice has a steely edge like the sharpened blade of the butcher’s knife in […]
May Tan Renga Day 2
the well digger comes out into the floating world— the heat! (c) Yokoi Yayū cool water evaporates […]
Unconditional Love Day 17
bouquet of kisses blossoms into spring flowers priceless gift of love Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love
Twisted
When I lived in London, I owned a silver Mini Ritz with a brilliant sound system. During the summer holidays, I would take my daughter to work with me as I had a colleague with a girl of the same age and they would play together at her house, which was just down the road. […]
Fallen into Bedlam
She woke to the sound of a quarrel, surrounded by whitewashed narrow walls. But they couldn’t whitewash sorrow with a smattering of hollow words. It was all a masquerade, this singing in Bedlam, a one-woman parade, to escape the man who had sprayed her life with his rotten sheen, turned her into something obscene to […]
May Tan Renga Day 1
on a gust of wind the cherry blossoms dance through the streets in praise of the Creator © Chèvrefeuille spring flies ahead of itself towards the warmth of summer Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month (Second Edition), May 2017 #1 on a gust of wind Chèvrefeuille has welcomed […]
Unconditional Love Day 16
a baby’s cry permeates the depths of sleep scent of milky skin Kim M. Russell, 2017 Mother and Child by Gustav Klimt My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love
writing in north norfolk 