On mid-winter afternoons, by half past three, restless rooks have gathered in leafless trees. Frosty fields are torn by the lowering sun; the sky darkens and the witching hour’s begun. In the dim half-light, windows start to glow and shadow puppets haunt lanes and hedgerows. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Sunday […]
Month: December 2017
Christmas Stress
stress melting away with family and carols anticipation Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2017 #7 Christmas stress (meditation) Today we have the last episode of Seven Days Before Christmas and the theme is ‘Christmas stress’!
Slowly
flake by feathery flake snow falls on the frozen lake milky light fills the sky at daybreak icing trickles on the Christmas cake children smile at a snow-globe shake slowly across the world Christmas wakes Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Fashion me your words: slowly Gillena’s challenge this […]
Christmas Present
brown bulbs become green last year’s Christmas gift unfolds scent of hyacinth Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2017 #6 Christmas presents
No Time to Waste
top up your bucket at the boundless well of time spilling not a drop Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1332 No Time To Waste Today’s quote is from Manuscript Found in Accra and it’s about time: “Someone asked him that why are some luckier than the others. One of the extraordinary […]
Midwinter Dawn
midwinter silence empty of birds – no chorus where are the angels? Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2017 #5 a choir of angels
Enlivened
We are enlivened to the core as we stroll across the moor: hills transform into mountains; wintry waste is hemmed by trees and stones; branches shiver with icicles and frost that chill us to our very bones. Anaemic sun fails to warm us and underfoot the earth is hard as iron, despite promises of early […]
A Glint of Sunshine
Stark winter branches relinquish their last few strips of faded foliage. They twirl, fall and slip between misty mornings and afternoons, land in muddy folds of rotten detritus and sodden grass, where a ragged dandelion beams among the grey and green. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Writing Exercise […]
Broken
winter mirror bleeds jagged rusty reflections asymmetric lies Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1331 mirror In a new episode of Carpe Diem Haiku Kai, we are being inspired by another quote from a novel by Paulo Coelho, The Winner Stands Alone: “The mirror reflects perfectly; it makes no mistakes because it […]
Christmas Story
following the star every year the story’s told a celebration Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2017 #4 The Christmas Story
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