My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #82 Star&Child Counting newborn stars Each a child of the cosmos Sparkling innocence © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on A Nursery for Newborn Stars in the Prawn Nebula – The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
More about my neighbourhood
For this week’s edition of Jacqueline’s ‘Echoes of My Neighbourhood’ #8, I have photographs of two quintessentially British landmarks. Last week I shared pictures of our village sign, a huge oak in the centre of the village and fields in the flat landscape of Norfolk. I also mentioned a pub and a church. Outside the pub there […]
Message of Spring
My response to Carpe Diem Special #195 Hamish Managua Gunn’s first “full snow moon” Winter’s tapestry of branches, bark and damp earth is torn asunder by emerging shoots and buds a silent message of spring © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on pixabay.com
The Sweetness of Primroses
I am down to one poem a day due to working on the second draft of a story for a competition and preparing to revise Joe and Nelly. Today I decided to write a response to Carpe Diem #909 Sweetness Simple and yellow Primroses are sweet flowers In a woodland glade Shyly dancing […]
A Da Vinci Ode
Bastard child of Tuscany Gliding on the thermals Of your own artistry Your paradoxical Mushrooming mind Spawned myriads of sketches Tumbling into your daily margins Fantastical flying machines Mechanisms of war And perfect brushstrokes A gentle ray of sunlight On the face of the Madonna Or the smile of the Mona Lisa You bridged art […]
Everything Was Beautiful
My response to MindLoveMisery’s Writing Prompt #144 “Collage 16″ They woke up to espresso In aquamarine cups Black and strong Nothing could go wrong She sat on his knee In a hotel room in Tuscany After a night of pasta and wine The floor boards creaked Under their feet Everything was beautiful And nothing hurt […]
Saddleworth Moor
This poem is rather dark and morbid for a Sunday morning, but I have been thinking about it for a long time. I was reminded of it by a recent article I read about Saddleworth Moor and recalled the impact the moors murderers, Brady and Hindley, had on me as a child – the personification of bogeymen […]
Dawn’s Shipwreck
My response to Haiku Horizons prompt “sleep” Drifting in slumber Morpheus pulls me under diving into dreams Surfacing from deep altered consciousness of sleep rising sun stirs me Lifting languid lids broken shards of sleep amid dawn’s shipwreck of sheets © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.posterlounge.co.uk
Plum Blossom
My response to Carpe Diem #906 Ume-no-hana (ume flower) Scent of plum blossom Wavering on a spring breeze Whisper of petals Washed away by gentle rain Certain they will bloom again © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Universal Truth
Children must be allowed To make of their lives what they will. Let them make mistakes, Share disappointments, hopes and thrills. Let them choose which friends to make: Some will come and some will go; The best remain through everything; And most of all they have to know The same applies to lovers – Broken […]
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