nightingales warble full of sakura perfume clouds on the mountain Kim M. Russell, 8th August 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1493 Okinawa … the music of Southern Japan Today we are still in Japan, visiting the southern region – Okinawa. Chèvrefeuille tells us that Okinawan music (Okinawa ongaku), also known as Ryukyuan music (Ryūkyū […]
Month: August 2018
Flight of a Bright New Poem
It germinates in the slow melody of water glinting in the shallows of the mind’s eye, the interplay of reeds and light that whisper through the open window in the dead of night. A brilliant fluorescence lifts and shifts shape into a metallic demoiselle rising in the mesmeric shimmering of wings, and the early morning […]
Finding the Way Day 25
on a narrow street windows look into windows sunshine and shadow Kim M. Russell, 8th August 2018 My daily response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018 Finding the Way At Carpe Diem, it’s time again for the traditional seasonal retreat: a period of 30 days in which the goal is to write a daily haiku […]
Unseen to the Naked Eye
In the prelude to a storm, I watch the sky bruise, hear thunder introduce lightning in a breath before it pirouettes across the sky. As the show fades into the distance, ghosts appear in a pale fluttering of moths filling the garden with clouds. Unseen to the naked eye, in the grass or in the […]
Ainu
the music of souls echoing in daily life whispers of jaw harps Kim M. Russell, 8th August 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1492 Ainu, the Japanese from the North Today we are visiting the ancient Ainu, a Japanese people from northern Japan. The oral Ainu culture includes various genres, including upopo, lighthearted ballads on […]
Kabyle
in the village square voices and bagpipes unite taste of harissa Kim M. Russell, 7th August 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1491 Kabyle, the music of Algerian Berbers Today, on our quest for folk music, we are will visiting a region in Algeria known as Kabyle, the land of the Berbers. Kabyle is not […]
Such a Fragrance
blossoms at their peak the mountain the same as always at daybreak the sky ribboned with pink clouds […]
Finding the Way Day 24
ebbing and flowing each wave has its own ripple marine enigma Kim M. Russell, 7th August 2018 My daily response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2018 Finding the Way At Carpe Diem, it’s time again for the traditional seasonal retreat: a period of 30 days in which the goal is to write a daily haiku […]
Hiroshima Spores
I wasn’t alive in August 1945 – I arrived eleven years and a day after Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki. I knew nothing of the horrors of those atomic bombs until I saw ‘The Bomb’, Episode 24 of ’The World at War’, a documentary series I watched with my father and, more recently, with […]
Mystical song of the Sami
reindeer and snowflakes dancing in the Northern Lights language of the stars Kim M. Russell, 6th August 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1490 Joik, the mystical song of the Sami On our August journey around the world to discover all kinds of folk music, we have already visited Italy, Portugal and Turkey; today we […]
writing in north norfolk 