so many questions on the path into the self stones glint in the sun Kim M. Russell, 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1397 The Journey Into Your Own Depth For this latest episode, Chèvrefeuille has chosen another interesting poem by Rumi: Then Journey Into Yourself Oh, if a tree could wander and move with […]
Day: March 26, 2018
Cracked Shell
On the paved path under the glossy bay tree, newly fallen from a nest, the jagged crack of half a freckled sky blue eggshell tears a hole in the day like a spring morning chorus of anxious mother birds, beaks open in raucous warning. Kim M. Russell, 2018 My poem for the dVerse Poets Pub […]
Unturning Worms
How the helminth of malice squirms! A gangly parasitic worm, it knocks us out of orbit and turns us hard-hearted. We glide in our inchoate masks, our faces smile but inside we bask in misery. Searching for company, we find the imperative of ignominy; it puts us in the public lens and misery’s company has […]