The right to twinkle didn’t belong to Marilyn alone, but every star in the dark empyrean dome: the glints, star- dust and the supernovas; stars that dazzle until they fizzle out; and those that hang on to the past, hoping they will last for ever. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Today Gayle is hosting dVerse Poets […]
Month: July 2017
Wakeful
First flush of morning percolates through crepuscular dreams, lays first thoughts behind sleep-encrusted lids. Words hatch and squirm, caterpillars to feed the hungry birds of creativity. No point in wrestling with the behe- moths that eat holes in the rags of night, let in first light. It’s time to write. Kim M. Russell, 2017 ‘Dance […]
Departure #13
departure lounges holding rooms for travellers desperate to fly Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on dailymail.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 “departure”
Waiting for Autumn
anticipation – a flock of swans’ beating wings foreshadows changes sunset-hued flowers herald the glow of autumnal earth Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1227 waiting for autumn (Aki tikashi, Aki wo matsu) Our classical prompt for today, ‘waiting for autumn’ (Aki tikashi, Aki wo matsu), is taken from the Kiyose, a […]
Swamp
humidity drips spongy swamp grass and sphagnum squelching underfoot Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1226 swamp Today we have a modern kigo, taken from A Dictionary of Haiku by Jane Reichhold, which one wouldn’t immediately associate with summer: swamp. He has also shared a haiku written by […]
Departure #12
rain-soaked to the skin cyclist struggles up the hill with a jingling bell disappears over the crest in a sparkling spray of rain Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 “departure”
Seascape with Lighthouse
Waves scream gulls, they flutter sand and scribble chaos in their wake, snatch stones and rocks in foamy hands, rampage on cliffs until they break. Matchstick fishing boats struggle to resist, their anchors taut against the tide, but rollers coil and undertow persists, anchors are dragged and ropes untied. On the cliffs and on the […]
Matisse and the Chair
The ancient instinct to collect becomes a working library. a laboratory of visual alchemy, an artist’s palette of reality, at its centre a Venetian baroque chair. Its silver gilt, green sea-monsters and curved seahorses become the source of coloured crayon outlines and details in layered oils: the portrait of a woman, curvaceous, adored, wooed with flowers […]
Wired Anemone
Wrists and heart bound by barbed wire, the intimacy of fear chills her bones. She is timid as a sea anemone; if you try to touch her, she contracts spontaneously, alters shape dramatically, stings you with her venom. Kim M. Russell, 2017 MKA Photography My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #175
Cool Breeze
captured by a fan a cooling breeze on her face flirtatious geisha Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1225 cool, cool evening, cool wind (Suzushi,Ryofu) Today we have a classical kigo for summer: cool, cool evening, cool wind (Suzushi,Ryofu).
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