My response to Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo Thursday Photo Prompt – Mine -#writephoto Green sheen Of mould on wood Colour wash Of nature’s brush The chimney’s cold The roof is gone Rainwater streaks The solid stone A ruined hearth No warming fire Just broken earth Nettle and briar © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Category: Poems
Before the Storm Breaks
Ghostly smoke of mayflies Drifts over The river In an ephemeral dance Augmenting Intensifying Below a sky of thunderous Cumulonimbus A ricocheting courtship Of passionate aerobatics Before the storm breaks As spiralling spinners dive The lazy river comes alive. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Mayflies Dancing over a River – (Davida De La Harpe) found […]
Lunar Tricks
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #39: Sleep walking ‘Le Somnambule’ by Marc Chagall Midnight, no stars in the sky. By the light of the moon sleepwalkers are at it again – drowning. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Rising from Pavements (a shadorma reprise)
I decided to deconstruct and re-write this poem following racist attacks in which a Polish community centre in London and a Romanian shop in Norwich were vandalised after the vote to leave the EU. I posted the original poem last August, which was inspired by a photograph my husband took on a trip to Wroclav, […]
Drowned Optimism
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini-Challenge: Shallows, Deeply I realise I’m a bit late but I really liked the look of this challenge: to show there still be dragons below and within and around us and find something deep in a shallow world, writing deeply in a shallow space—using little, saying […]
An Autumn Murder
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #121 In autumn, when he came calling, leaves turning, fires burning, tendrils of mist were curling, leaves were falling. In autumn, in the forest dark, his black art ate her heart, ripped her gentle limbs apart, left the devil’s mark. In autumn, he ripped off […]
Ambisinister
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #117 “July 11th, 2016” Ambisinister as a duck, I scratch the surface of a metaphor That destructs In a shivering thunderhead Of poetic ephemerids, Filling the chambers Of my heart with benign Imagery and rhyme. No need to bribe Saint Peter To enter The plush gates of heaven When you […]
Weary of my Wisdom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #167 “Collage Special Edition” “I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey.” Is a quote from Nietzsche. Collage by Laura Bloomsbury be sure to stop by her blog! The signpost said there were One and a half miles still to go But […]
Nature’s Eye
My response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt – Look Out – #writephoto Looking out from the darkness… Nature’s eyelid is cracked and made of stone, Fixed on a landscape of green, rust, and grey; She observes the landscape coming undone, Its tree-crowned hills tumbling between fields and sky. Bent trees breast the north wind […]
Coulrophobia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt #50: Send in the Clowns I don’t like clowns, They make me scared; The ones with red noses and untameable hair, Send them away. I don’t feel safe. I don’t approve. Rowdy, disruptive and always on the move, Boisterous clowns. I don’t like clowns. I prefer the […]
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