My response to Sacha Black’s WRITESPIRATION #84 JUST FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES My words: are as follows: 10th word = had; 33rd word = some; last word = saw; longest word = disappointed Disappointed With the shadows And the ghosts that didn’t come Disappointed With the nightmares You know I wanted some Disappointed In boring dreams […]
Category: Journal
My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.
Sunday Shoes
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #35 “Caroline” Performed by Old Crow Medicine Show Your voice is shining Like your patent Sunday shoes Velvet voice floating As you dance and sing the blues Tap and flash those Sunday shoes © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.fashiondetective.co.uk
Violet Memories
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: violet dreams of grandmother saturated with her scent flirty violet coming and going with time inhaling fond memories © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on boisdejasmin.com
Abandoned Shed
My response to Carpe Diem #947 grass pillow garden sentinel by the rickety gate flakes of peeling paint padlock key has disappeared keeping its contents hidden © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The Juniper Tree – a Grimm tale
After months of writing poems based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, I decided to look for some more obscure and lesser-known fairy tales to inspire me. I started with the Brothers Grimm and found one called ‘The Juniper Tree’, which I hadn’t come across before. Part 1 A long, long time ago, a […]
Moody Blue
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: Indigo saturated sky seeping into inner space beyond indigo © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on indigonight.com
Blue Freedom
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #2 Color Your Life: blue against perfect sky white sails accentuate blue freedom of the sea © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on absfreepic.com
On Ageing
Another response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Octain Refrain Invaded by an alien blue veins are pulsing marbled mud breasts desiccated, juiceless buds skin has become reptilian amber hair is now dusty grey can’t sleep at night and doze all day heart that once soared now only thuds I have […]
A Seaside Octain
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Octain Refrain In lines of salty poetry beach-combings of sea-shells and stones seaweed and brittle brine-bleached bones polished and arranged in glory deep blues and moody seascape hues the writer navigates a story of washing waves and seagull’s tones in lines of salty […]
Writer’s Block
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #23: Nove otto – this is how my poor husband must have felt the other day when I was experiencing a dose of writer’s block – and my computer was playing up! Spitting words with splitting tongue, The battle with the shrew’s begun. Her face and eyes are […]
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