This is my first contribution to Jacqueline’s ‘Echoes of My Neighbourhood’ challenge. Every Thursday we share photos of our neighbourhood and link them to Jacqueline’s post. I’m looking forward to seeing all the different places in which WordPress bloggers live, work and play! When I go out of the gate at the bottom of our back garden, […]
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
Great Cold
My response to Carpe Diem #900 Daikan (Great cold) Every blade of grass Silver white with morning frost Bows to the great cold © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.graniterock.co.uk
Songs Are Like Tattoos
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #14: Take a favourite line I have taken a line from ‘Blue’ by Joni Mitchell and incorporated it in a tanka: Songs are like tattoos Pricking at your tender skin Begging to come in And leave indelible stains: Inky music on your soul © Kim M. Russell, 2016 […]
The Woman who Lost her Balance
My response to Sacha Black’s #1000SPEAK #WRITESPIRATION 76 Alice had lost her balance. At thirty years old she couldn’t walk in a straight line and she wasn’t even drunk. The neat, flower-printed mums at the school gate tutted and whispered; when she tried to speak, the slurred words that burnt her lips and dripped […]
Broken Gate
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #66 Teika’s Ten Tanka Techniques by Jane Reichhold Creak of broken gate Buffeted by winter wind Wood is grey and bare Held up by long grass and weeds Rusty latch bleeds on fingers © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Quadrille According to Lewis Carroll
My response to Björn Rudberg’s challenge in Quadrille Alice was acquainted with the intricate rules Of formal ballroom dancing, particularly quadrilles. Thus she was not disconcerted, bewildered or bemused By curious events that would otherwise confuse When sea creatures joined together in their pairs, Took to the floor and danced in squares. © Kim M. […]
Cellblock
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge # 96 Cellblock by Steve Snodgrass CC BY 2.0 Echoing of keys Locks, bolts, bars and naked light Bulb swings acid bright Only shadows deep within Cloud the pain and hide the sin © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Writing Haiku
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #80 Style&Fresh Old words and ideas In a long established style Written with fresh ink © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Matsuo Basho by maus pire on Prezi
Feline Balancing
Ice on water Transparent moon Eclipses crystal reflections Of garden and sky And curious feline vanity Balancing in the languor Of warming rays Unaware of the danger Of frozen days © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tosca in Frost
Another response to Carpe Diem #897 snow viewing Regal burnished fur Stands out against her domain Dusted with silver © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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