in passing showers trees shiver cherry blossom pink-petalled hoorahs Kim M. Russell, 5th December 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1559 Vancouver … renowned for the Cherry Blossoms In the next stage of our journey along the Pan American Highway, we are stopping in Vancouver for the Cherry Blossom Festival.
Month: December 2018
Bread
The scent of winter’s mellowed by the yeasty aroma of your fingers kneading dough. Now foliage covers the ground, the year fades from brown to grey, drawing in with early dusk. My stomach’s hollow with the taste of frost as I bite into the first slice of home-baked toast spread with butter soft and yellow […]
Alberta Badlands
flanked by flaming leaves following a grey highway stones and bones await in formations of strata where dinosaurs once foraged Kim M. Russell, 3rd December 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1558 Alberta (Canada) … imagination without limits In the second episode of our journey from the north of Northern America (Canada) to the south […]
Scrooged Again
It’s that time I fear, when we are expected to be of good cheer, like a glass of mulled wine or a pint of good beer, to dance with the boss at the company Christmas party and regret it the rest of the year. Kim M. Russell, 2nd December 2018 My response to dVerse Poets […]
Departure
leaving weighs heavy in a heart that longs to fly the spreading of wings Kim M. Russell, 3rd December 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1557 Departure … In the first regular episode of December 2018 we are setting off on a journey again, this time along the Pan American Highway, which goes from Canada […]
A Quiet Place
This is a quiet place: a collection of moments, a still languid lake that swallows each drop of rain and cries tears of memories in watery reflections. Wistfully blue complexions shimmer with light and shadow, split by the occasional kingfisher or dragonfly, the only chinks in a diluted sky. Kim M. Russell, 2nd December 2018 […]
Plato and Old Age
murder of old crows escaping youthful pleasures mad and furious Kim M. Russell, 2nd December 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #61 a new feature for the weekend … introduction Not only does Carpe Diem have a new CDHK Weekend Meditation logo for Winter but it also has a new feature, Carpe Diem […]
Jessie
Jessie was a teacher when a camera changed her life: while traditional women were content with being wives, she used her sharp eye and ability to hustle, ignoring constraints of corset and bustle, to seek the newsworthy and documentary. Instead of portraits of well-bred young women, she photographed a murder trial, slums and local prison. […]
Poetry reading
The Emma Press Second Place Rosette launch. My reading:
writing in north norfolk 