They wait for spring, those intimate winter trees at the end of the garden: unadorned birches tall, bare and skeletal white trunks shining, patient old friends chilled through with icy winds and frost each morning. Kim M. Russell, 9th February 2019 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Just One Word: Sensation, also linked […]
Month: February 2019
Night of the Firefly
I wear loosely and meet the man at the night of firefly Katsura Nobuko (1914-2004) they illuminate the trees inconstant constellations hand in hand we follow secret pathways into the darkness a lovers’ moon fills the sky and fireflies are extinguished Kim M. Russell, 8th February 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1602 Tan Renga […]
At this Moment
I’m sitting in my study in front of my laptop, Filofax and paperwork littering the desktop. In the background, The Archers is on the radio, otherwise the house is still, my only company Mojo, the little green-eyed cat, scrutinising every move I make, her pink nose pushing at my hand, urging me to take a […]
Outstaying our Welcome
“You are a guest of nature” (Hundertwasser) boots crush vernal grass and clover barley heads droop the once living quilt of meadow has shrivelled up and died and the earth shivers with fear as the sun climbs ever higher above the blasted pasture of the biosphere while humans bandy words like ‘zero tolerance’ they neglect […]
The Weight of a Butterfly
waterweed floating away, despite the butterfly’s weight on it Chiyo-Ni (Tr. Ueda) sheen of sunlight on its wings spectacular swallowtail Kim M. Russell, 7th February 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1601 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (5) the weight of a butterfly In a new episode of the Tan Renga Challenge month, we have […]
Unseen
I no longer need to hide in doorways and shadows – I’m one of the unseen. I’m a tatty pigeon faltering on feathers of memories. I’m a twisted old silver birch, invisible in moonlight. I’m a river with no audible ripple, grown lumpen and tufty, dried to a trickle and a tangle of reeds. I […]
Cold Wintry Wind
the cold wintry wind is blowing so hard that the sun sinks into the ocean Soseki waves infused with molten gold rage against a stormy sky Kim M. Russell, 5th February 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1600 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (4) […]
Garden at Sunrise
garden at sunrise shadows erased by first rays sunflowers turning Ken Gierke (RivrVlogr) petals illuminated Helianthus tracks the day Kim M. Russell, 5th February 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1599 Tan Renga Challenge Month 2019 (3) garden at sunrise In a new episode of Ferbuary’s Tan Renga Challenge, we have a masterpiece by Ken […]
Crystal Sunlight
plump drops of dawn dew pregnant with bursts of sunlight new life awakens Kim M. Russell, 4th February 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Rebirth of an Old Feature: Time Glass 1 Crystal A time-challenging feature entitled ‘Time Glass’ has been resurrected at Carpe Diem and the goal is to create haiku or tanka inspired […]
The Solitude of Green
It is never lonely in our garden; there is no despair or desolation, just the solitude of green. Even in winter, I am embraced by green: the bending of the grass to my feet; the fresh shoots of snowdrop and daffodil braving the frost and ice; the murmuring of branch and leaf although, at this […]
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