You want me to sit on what you think is an empty chair? Not while he sits there, his soft blond hair matted with blood, face grey as the smoke from the gun I pressed to his head. He’s not dead to me, he’s locked in my brain, a bloody stain I can’t scrub clean. […]
Month: June 2017
Smiling with the Sun
generous Buddha spreads warm smiles on mountain peaks Himalayan sun Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1205 Smile In a new episode of CDHK’s journey through Tibet our prompt is ‘smile’. Chèvrefeuille tells us that Tibetans are called the smiling people: they are always friendly and smiling. He […]
Landing in Sand
When I was at school I loved athletics, especially long jump. The feeling of sprinting up to the board as fast as I possibly could and then taking off into space filled me with expectation and elation, with the wind in my face and the dappled shadows of the trees in the sand, freshly raked […]
Stubborn as a Yak
in the cold mountains a yak’s wool holds summer warmth obstinate and true Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on iStock My response to Carpe Diem #1204 Yaks (another reprise) In another episode of this month’s journey to Tibet, Chèvrefeuille has revived a previous prompt on the theme of Yaks. He tells us that the […]
I got back from Wales…
and I have another poem in the latest Visual Verse. Here’s a link to the June issue, Vol. 4, Chapter 8 of the online Visual Verse anthology. You can find my poem on page 38 or you can link directly to the poem, entitled ‘Demented’.
House Martins
below the roof edge on a jutting ledge snowy flash of feathered legs returning to eggs busy between hawthorn hedge and the young they fledge dizzy Kim M. Russell, 2017 House Martins by Mark Kilner from the Springwatch Flickr group, found on bbc.co.uk. My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Lai it […]
Pedicularis
the common lousewort has a magical power humble mountain herb camouflaged in shades of leaves and beautiful curved flowers Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1203 Pedicularis In today’s episode of CDHK we are looking again at the alternative health care of Tibet. Chèvrefeuille tells us that the […]
Corydalis
electric blue tubes shimmer on waves of spring green ampoules of healing Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1202 Corydalis In another episode of our magical journey through Tibet, Chèvrefeuille has introduced a herb for our inspiration, one of the most secret and sacred herbs used in Tibet […]
Solo Flight
In the silver silence of morning’s first rays, she is woken from the vastness of the double bed by a bee munching her way out of a nest secreted in an air vent. After a long winter spent in a cocoon, waiting for warmer weather to eat herself free from nesting cavities plugged with grains […]
Campanula Flood
early summer sky drips through branches in the woods a flood of bluebells Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1201 Campanula (Blue Bell) Today the challenge consists of images of bluebells Campanula) and several haiku, of which my favourite is: The entire sky Leans in all directions Trying […]
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