hail rattles windows under the door a draught blows cats share body heat Kim M. Russell, 2017 My thirteenth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful I was tidying up the images on my laptop this week when I found this photograph of Luna and her mother, Tosca, who was killed in […]
Month: October 2017
Faith
Buddha’s empty hands closed in prayer at the temple open at the gate Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1290 spiritual way – Haiku’s state of mind – zen Today, our trip along memory lane has brought us into 2017 and ‘Carpe Diem’s Namasté, the Spiritual Way’. Our prompt is one of […]
First Hint of Snow
flurry of feathers stitches from a skein of geese white as the first snow Kim M. Russell, 2017 My twelfth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Erasing Shakespeare
Saucy and overbold beldam of death, mistress of charms, spite and wrath loves not you. Vessels and spells provide a dismal and a fatal end. Upon the corner of the moon, artificial sprites raise little spirit in a foggy cloud. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: Look What […]
Clandestine
Leaves murmur in the woody copse. Twilight is more alive than sombre day and we fly outside time. Together we haunt waxing shadows; heart-stirring hoots bind us to sorrow; unearthly hiss and sigh, blinking discs of eyes and graceful drifting over tangled grass – a fleeting meeting and then they’ve passed. Kim M. Russell, 2017 […]
In the Alps
majestic mountains shrouded in a cloak of snow frozen gasp of awe Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1289 Symphony no 11 (The Winter) Today we are being inspired by Joachim Raff’s 7th symphony ‘in the alps.
Last Birds of Autumn
birds disturbed by gales twitters in the woody copse flash of leaves and wings Kim M. Russell, 2017 My eleventh response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Pebbles
pebbles in the sand glistening with salty foam touched by hands and waves Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1288 abalone shells Today’s prompt from the past is in memory of Jane Reichhold, who passed away last July. Around that time Chèvrefeuille created a special feature, ‘Universal Jane’ and, in one of […]
Painting the Autumn Landscape
seasonal colours paint the everyday landscape clouds, raindrops and leaves Kim M. Russell, 2017 My tenth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Slipping
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 […]
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