The circus is over; curses escape rouged lips, the mask slips, dripping with clay lumpen and grey. Clown hands squeeze, poking dreams filled with screams trapped in a false face – a frozen grimace. Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Metaphorical Mask, also linked to earthweal open link […]
Day: October 24, 2017
Newgrange Solstice
a bend in the Boyne cradles a monument ancient mystery waiting in the gloomy tomb for a ray of solstice sun Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1287 Ireland Chèvrefeuille reminds us that Basho was a travelling haiku poet and, back in the summer of 2016, CDHK had its first Ginko (haiku-walk), […]
Winter Reeds
golden reed beds rise along banks of winter lakes glimmers of sunshine shafts in turbulent water break silence with their soughing Kim M. Russell, 2017 My ninth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
writing in north norfolk 