We’re soothed by steady ticks and tocks of our old clock, gently knocking, rarely stopping to balance up the weight of time; unclogged by grime, fine polished gears count up the years. We put trust in its staring face, its plodding pace, its simple chime as it calls time. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found […]
Month: July 2017
Desk Lamp Blues
Due to the way you bend my neck, leave me craning, I can only catch a glimpse of you swimming in the early morning shadow that surrounds my white halo. Your fingers tap and eyes stare as you lean back in the creaky chair between sips of sweetly pungent raspberry tea, completely disregarding me when […]
Departure #6
acorns are showing blackberries begin to swell traces of summer Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 “departure”
Raspberry
raspberry kisses taste of juicy earthiness patience rewarded Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1223 Raspberry Today we have another classical kigo from the Shiki Saijiki, a classical anthology of kigo (seasonwords): ‘raspberry’ (Kiichigo), with an example by Jane Reichhold: low winter sun raspberry leaves glow red and […]
Deserted Beach
abandoned by waves sunlight traces sparkling salt driftwood comes alive Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1222 Beach In a new episode of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, in a month in which we are exploring classical and non-classical kigo (seasonwords) for summer, today’s prompt is a modern kigo […]
Departure #5
the show is over with rumbling giant footsteps thunder leaves the stage Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on northnorfolknews.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem Haiku Kai Autumn Retreat 2017 “departure”
A Writer’s Window
Outside is a garden, wild and green, from my study window seen. It’s tangled with branches and shadowed with leaves: my garden has the coolest breeze. The riotous grass is sunlight-dappled, scattered with plum, quince and apple. The dome of willows is a hideaway where cats, deer and pheasants play. Outside the window are trees […]
Echoes of an Earlier Landscape
Early light has been diffused to an apricot glow, dappled with fragments of cool, grey shadow, echoes of the wet earth of an earlier landscape. Soggy fields and marshes suffered centuries of drought; now precious juttings of sea-worn granite lure us out to where water once teemed with life. Now all that’s left are sweeping […]
Demons
In the shattering pangs of sadness, bring me nepenthe so I may climb into vague forgetfulness and abdicate world-weariness. Neolithic numbness turns me to sallow stone, my only hope has perished and left me all alone. The four corners of this earth grow ever near, closing in day by day, accompanied by uncontrollable, irrational, offhand […]
Gokiburi
in the sudden light shadowy corners bristle scuttling cockroaches Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1221 Cockroach (Gokiburi) In a new episode in this month full of kigo (seasonword) for summer, Chèvrefeuille has surprised us with an unusual classical one: ‘cockroach’.
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