Category: Journal

My daily journal: comments, thoughts and poetry on daily events.

Norwich Peregrine Falcons

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weavers 58: Vernal Equinox and linking up to Jacqui’s Echoes of my Neighbourhood over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales.    A blue-grey blur Against stone walls Wide wings whirr Haunting falcons call A flash of white breast Buffeted higher To their nest On the cathedral’s spire   © Kim M. […]

The Myth of Mary

I do not think of myself as religious, spiritual perhaps, but I am intrigued by stories and women from the Bible, such as Delilah and Salome, and at Easter I think of Mary Magdalene.   Mary Magdalene goddess and icon or penitent prostitute reformed by love anointing his feet and dead body witness of the […]

Early Morning Exaltation

My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics : Poetry is for the Birds, inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29: “the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate”.   Up with the lark’s early morning exaltation of exclamation curlicues and marks that punctuate the sky thrillingly trilling high above open fields […]

Mightier than the Sword

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #105   The Lady of the Lake Has relinquished Excalibur, Released Merlin And taken up the pen. Her rhymes are regal, Metre magical; Poetry of romance, love and death Blown across the lake on misty breath. The Lady of the Lake does not mince words, Now that she […]