I have just received the following email: ‘Congratulations! I wish to inform you that your submitted work has been accepted for inclusion in Afflatus magazine. I would like to thank each contributor for submitting your poems in our inaugural issue. We envision a magazine featuring works by emerging and established writers. We are literature beyond […]
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
Before the Battle
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #106 The stillness seems to deepen. Hush! Soft footprint without a sound On daytime ground Cooling in the night-time shadows. Out of black silence come two hands, Blue as the moon and dry as sand, Acrid touch of a woad warrior. Yes, I know It is you […]
No Regrets
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #10: Hanami “When cherry blossoms scatter – no regrets” Issa Sixteen years ago, we were looking for a new home. We didn’t have much money but we did have a two bedroom bungalow to sell, with a cherry tree in the front garden. We were looking for […]
Early Midges
My response to Carpe Diem Special #204 Shida Yaba’s “morning frost” by reed-fringed water early season midges dance in sun’s reflections © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on http://www.shutterstock.com
The Alchemist’s Quest
My response to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #30 The alchemist’s sign A salamander and fire My magical muse A test to own a potion A quest I could not refuse © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on http://www.magicalrecipesonline.com
The Lonely Vampire’s Lament
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #103 In the shadows, I await The creaking of the garden gate, With my tendency to hallucinate In my isolophilia. The scalding sunlight makes me sick, Bubbles my skin like vinyl mosaic, But my passionless life will be over quick In my isolophilia. And then, in the […]
Invisible London
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – ABC Poem Against the constant Backing track of traffic, Common sounds of the city Drum in an Ever-present hum. Fixed in the haloes of street lights, Glimpses of passing faces, Hurrying home; In shop windows and shattered bus-stop glass, Jazzy Kaleidoscope of Lights. Morning […]
Easter Sunday
On a lazy Sunday on a muddy bank by the slow green flow of the river, toes dipping in the chilly water, hidden by the long grass, a hovering breeze stirs the air, sharp with wild garlic; blows daffodils’ trumpets, brash yellow strumpets; flutters primrose petals glinting in amongst the brambles; buffets boughs of flowers […]
The Lost Pharaoh
Inspired by an article I read in The Times Over two thousand years ago Colossal statues of Pharaohs Were carved out of rosy granite But Egyptian land was subsiding And the holy temple sinking The city of Heracleion Lost in the Mediterranean. Discovered by archaeologists Who saved it from the sea mists Dug […]
Clouds and Smoke
My response to Carpe Diem #948 brush clouds layered above shallow billowing valleys their motionless lines broken only by wood smoke kettle boils on open fire © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.nowzipit.co.uk
writing in north norfolk 