Pinocchio’s truthful nose swells and grows with lies but his eyes sink and skies grow black no way back now hijack fake news Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Fussy Little Forms: Than Bauk Marian has given us a big challenge with another fussy little form, the Burmese THAN […]
Month: December 2017
Cyborg Skin – a poem in Visual Verse
Another poem has been included in the December issue, Vol. 5, Chapter 2 of the online Visual Verse anthology. You can find my poem on page 22 or you can link directly to the poem, entitled ‘Cyborg Skin’.
Follow the Dream
serendipitous dreams start with small emotions distant horizons Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1322 follow the dream Today’s inspirational Coelho quote is from Aleph: “I am not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of […]
Giant Shoes
Bits of twig and uprooted willows tangle in hollow bank-side shadows haunted by a mist of winter gnats. Hoar frost sparkles on the slats of rowing boats and canoes, abandoned like a giant’s shoes, the kind you find at the side of a road, dumped without its pair. Bubbles implode in the eddy of a […]
A Sea Witch’s Song
Beach your beauty on the back of storms and bind your spells, pulsating northern lights. You offer songs to the night but are drawn by siren stars. Lured off course without navigation, you fight waves of mass ejection and collide with the shore, exposed to the cosmos: foamy flukes glint in starlight, your songs echo […]
Winter Miracle
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on days white with snow we become children again catching flakes on tongues Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1321 miracles In a new episode the quote to inspire us has been taken from Paulo Coelho’s novel The Zahir: “The great…
Winter Miracle
on days white with snow we become children again catching flakes on tongues Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1321 miracles In a new episode the quote to inspire us has been taken from Paulo Coelho’s novel The Zahir: “The great advantage of writing about spirituality is that I know I’m bound […]
Falling
everything sparkles drinking the fresh taste of love the world slips away Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1320 Falling in Love Today’s quote is taken from Paulo Coelho’s novel Eleven Minutes: “When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. […]
Tapping
Stubborn leaves bristle branches in a whickering wind; frost has finished off apples in the grass – it’s cold enough to light a fire. From the heart of steely winter silence, something hard taps on glass. I check windows, see only winter sky where black bones of twigs scrape at emptiness. Kneeling on the floor […]
Inside the Words
haiku syllables eyes and mind delve deep inside internal beauty Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1319 Inner Beauty Today’s Paulo Coelho quote is taken from his novel Manuscript Found In Accra: “Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows from our eyes”. (Source: […]
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