tender blossoms fall sweet perfume drifts on the breeze memories of peace Kim M. Russell, 11 September 2018 pear tree in full bloom on a battlefield collapsed house becomes beautiful again Shiki (re-worked by Chèvrefeuille) […]
Month: September 2018
A Perfect Rainbow
kissing the landscape a once in a lifetime bow wrapped around a storm Kim M. Russell, 11th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Quest for a (New) Masterpiece #3 the quest continues Today we have the third episode in the Carpe Diem quest for a masterpiece, a haiku or tanka which describes a moment […]
Everything Stopped
The room was silent. In one fell swoop of those planes the buzz just stopped – everything stopped, everyone stared at computer or TV screens, in disbelief at what they’d seen. Everything stopped, the world stopped spinning for a moment. So far from this tragedy and yet so close to anguished faces, desperate faces, faces […]
Rust and Dust
grasses wilt: the braking locomotive grinds to a halt Yamaguchi Seishi, (Tr. Michael R. Burch) dust between the rusty tracks a dandelion stoplight Kim M. Russell, 11th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Chained Together III: grasses wilt In a month […]
Quick
How quickly time passes, cuts to the quick of a quick lifetime of the quick and the dead, fills us with dread. Only the quick understand that, although our ashes and dust filter back into the earth, our souls dance on in the universe. Kim M. Russell, 10th September 2018 My response to dVerse Poets […]
Last Apple of Autumn
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 […]
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 […]
The Beauty of Flatness
we wake each day in a flat landscape earth and sky extend to the horizon the only line breaks in this epic poem are corrugations of ridges and furrows ditches choked with waterweed and marsh woundwort’s stout pink heads birds smudge the milky welkin as they slip low over marsh and field spooked by the […]
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