My response to Carpe Diem Special #211 Joyce Lorenson’s 3rd “May evening” spring honeysuckle dots of colour in the green seducing bees bright summer blooms cascading down the trellis fragrant in late sun © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Category: Haiku
Sparking the Imagination
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille June 15th 2016 Imagination (art-work by © Chèvrefeuille) synapses are sparked by colourful creation imagination © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Sunshine and Shadow
My response to Carpe Diem #973 Bulgaria Voluptuous heights sweep down to gorge, lake and sea sunshine and shadow. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.travelguide-en.org
King of the Norfolk Broads
My response to Carpe Diem Special #209 “ripple in the lake” by Joyce Lorenson Kingfisher flickers blue above wind-kissed water wavelets in its wake © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.theguardian.com
Tuscan Lights
My response to Carpe Diem #970 Italy . What a coincidence: I’ve just got back from my daughter’s wedding in Tuscany! Chiusdino’s lights: a twinkling constellation in the evening glow. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Love and Preparation
My reponse to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (7 ): Latifa Prayer lines 6 & 7: “I love” and “I am prepared” For the ‘I love’ prompt, I have chosen a tanka I posted in February: Once an innocent, delicate, blossoming bud, love suddenly comes alive, exploding like an atom expanding our universe. Lotus […]
A Poet’s Hope
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (4) Latifa Prayer “I hope” children of the stars living on Earth, poets hope for an astral muse © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Ghosts and Apple Blossom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – immodesty As my own favourite haiku, I have chosen: Words become poems – ephemeral ghosts as soon as they are spoken. © Kim M. Russell, 2015 My new haiku is: Ancient apple blooms – fleeting poems on the breeze speak wisdom of trees. © Kim M. […]
Spring Fades
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #80: Memory Lane: Utabukuro (or poem bag) The haiku I admire is: In the basin, as I wash my face, there rises autumn’s shadow. Natsume Soseki (translated by Makoto Ueda, from Modern Japanese Haiku: An Anthology) I have written my own haiku in the same style but about spring: On the […]
Lotus Petals
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 Latifa Prayer episode 2 “I exist” with each breath the soul floats with the lotus flower, caressing petals © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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