one apple, alone in the abandoned orchard reddens for winter Patrick Blanche (Tr. Michael R. Burch) fading drone of the last wasps drunk on sadness of sugar Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Chained Together III: An […]
Day: September 9, 2018
Dancing on the Edge of the World
the edge of the world is where the clouds and waves meet where we dance and sing Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditiation #49 Clouds and Waves by Rabindranath Tagore This month, all the Weekend Meditations are kind of ‘distillations’, in which we are given a long poem […]
The End and the Beginning
After the delay to summer’s end, autumn fruits and berries remind us of the taste of summer the luxurious heat the lingering light the genesis of brand new buds of spring red purple gold and brown wrapped in grey mist and the smell of leaves smoke curls from a bonfire long before the chimneys belch […]
Leaf
single yellow leaf the first on the cherry tree it hung there all week yesterday the wind blew strong the yellow leaf has fallen Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe DiemTanka Splendour: Autumn Leaves Tanka Splendour has just been restarted, with the weekly challenge of creating a Tanka on a given […]