honeysuckle pervades in the night darkened garden sunset afterglow Kim M. Russell, 26th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #86 A New Feature: Carpe Diem’s Utopia This weekend we are meditating with a new feature: Carpe Diem’s Utopia, based on the idea of a perfect place, community or society. The goal […]
Category: Haiku
Another haiku in the Poetry Pea Podcast
Patricia has kindly included another of my haiku in this week’s podcast on ‘Weeds or Wildflowers’. Here is the link: S2 E10: Weeds or Wildflowers? There are notes to accompany the podcast, in which you can read haiku and senryu on the topic of weeds, together with brief information about the poets. The topic for […]
Photo-Shopped Cherry Blossom
even old men open their eyes to New Year cherry blossoms Kim M. Russell, 19th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom For this weekend’s meditation we have another episode of the new feature: ‘Photo-Shopping Haiku’, in which we tweak or make a little change to a […]
Fearless Pheasant
handsome cock pheasant strutting closer to the cat burnished head erect Kim M. Russell, 12th May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #84 Quest for a new masterpiece: Movement (Undou) This weekend the challenge is to create a new masterpiece, a haiku that will last forever and will be known by a lot […]
Passing Spring
ready for summer bare feet on nature’s carpet blossom-covered grass Kim M. Russell, 1st May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1653 passing spring (yuku haru) In the last episode of ApriI the classical kigo was ‘passing spring’ (yuku haru). We have an example of a haiku by Basho with this classical kigo: Spring passes […]
Photo-shopping Basho
autumn arrives breathing sighs into my ear a pillow of wind Kim M. Russell, 28th April 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #82 Introducing a new feature: photo-shopping haiku This weekend we have a new feature, revising a haiku in a similar way to photo-shopping: just a little change to make the difference […]
Cherry Petals
clusters of petals snatched and scattered by the wind blush of confetti Kim M. Russell, 28th April 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1652 Cherry Petals (modern kigo) In the penultimate episode of April 2019, in which we have explored modern and classical kigo for spring, our challenge involves a modern kigo taken from Jane […]
Poetry Pea Filmku Podcast
I am delighted that Patricia of Poetry Pea has kindly included two of my ‘filmku’ in her latest podcast. There are notes to accompany the podcast on the Poetry Pea website, in which you can read haiku and senryu on the topic of film, together with brief information about the poets. The topic for May […]
Talking to Myself (Again)
watery words weep steeped in hours of lonely thoughts talking to myself Kim M. Russell, 21st December 2015 words no longer weep solitude bears poetry seeds blown on the wind Kim M. Russell, 21st April 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #81 Poetry Archive (5) … loneliness or emptiness The weekend has come around […]
Poetic Pollen
I inhale yellow: pollen dances on sunlight inhabiting air. Two geese overhead; their wing beats stir the cherry pink and freshly bloomed. Pollen-dusted bees zip in and out of flowers – honeyed promises. Kim M. Russell, 20th April 2019 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Weekend Mini-Challenge, in April: Three Spring Shorts Magaly […]
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