Month: May 2019

After April

After April rain that’s washed into May, sun illuminates the sparkling garden embroidered with a foam of daisies and brassy dandelion buttons. I find one last withered snowdrop, a survivor from the yellow flood, breathe air encouraging and fresh with growth while I stop and listen to a chiffchaff chuckling a tune, a song that […]

Wisteria

in the moonlight, the colour and scent of the wisteria seems far away                                          Yosa Buson intertwined with hazy mist rising with birds from the lake              Kim M. Russell, 9th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1660 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (7) Wisteria Today our inspiration comes […]

Natures Gift

At five o’clock a patch of sky unfolds its hues like Italian paper, marbled mauves and blues. Untangling on the horizon, the new dawn breaks and, by sunrise, the wrinkled ocean wakes, stifles a yawn, wraps the beach in waves and sky: Nature’s azure gift and early morning surprise. Kim M. Russell, 8th May 2019 […]

Theoretically

We harvested the fruits of muddy shores, watched millions of diamond sparkles on the crests of ocean waves before we turned our eyes to space. It startled us and left us wanting to know more about what lies beyond the darkness, titillated and tempted to explore. Still we must overcome hurdles while our feet are […]

Wintry Gusts

kogarashi ya mezashi ni nokoru umi-no iro Wintry gusts: on the sardine still lingers the ocean’s color.                                     Gaki (Tr.: Ueda) Clinging sweetly to the tongue the honeyed taste of summer.              Kim M. Russell, 7th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1658 Tan Renga Challenge Month May 2019 (5) Wintry gusts The haiku for today […]

Up Ended

I miss the freedom of childhood summers threading daisies searching for four-leaf clover turning an up- side down handstand against the wall dresses tucked in knickers laughing at each other’s frown that was an up- ended smile an omen it would soon be over Kim M. Russell, 6th May 2019 My response to dVerse Poets […]