My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #47: “Take Courage” by Andrew Bird When words begin to crumble, Stale cake on your tongue, Thoughts fossilise and tumble Into back holes, one by one. Fingers fly and fumble, Trying to catch words That escape like mumbles And fly away like birds. Eyes still see, heart still […]
Category: Poems
Silent Love
I wrote this poem for the Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition and then remembered that I’m not a Stanza member – so I thought I’d share it with you on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform. She sang her love into a bell-jar And replaced the robust dumbing bung, Observing the golden silence Of […]
Passion
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver Prompt #72: June 16 2016: Passiflora caerulea Awash with cerulean ripples, Other-worldly, complex flowers Clamour, South American beauties At the windows of a brothel, Wild and menacing As their vigorous vines Intertwine And swallow trees whole Like Amazonian anacondas. And yet, The intricate structure Of each flower Is […]
Blue Hydrangea
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #117 and dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 11 As a token Of the gardener’s growing love He presented his sweetheart With a single Blushing pink hydrangea bloom Her disappointment Spilled into the room Acid words dripped From her petal lips And the perfect globe Underwent a sea change And […]
Bluebottles Aren’t Blue
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 11 13th June A writhing urgency Of milky maggots Spills from a feeding frenzy In the depths of decomposition Metamorphoses From boring brown cocoons Into a metaphor Of obscenely beautiful blowflies Iridescent and metallic Buzzing and battling Against the windowpane Merging into the inky blackness Of Beelzebub […]
Mother’s Warning
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #113 “June 13th, 2016” In an ocean of dust And human detritus, Slithery silverfish gather In bathroom bacchanalia, Feasting on rancid remnants of mascara, Flakes of torn-off toilet tissue and wallpaper. As I heave and fumble, My face translucent At the sickening sight, I recall an element Of cliché In […]
Cardinal Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #163 “Collage 25” Picture of Sign Credit: Ray Flanagen The quote “Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” William C. Hannah He dreamed he was a prince Untangling briars In a fairy-tale wasteland, Breaking through To a vertiginous Precipice […]
The Proust Effect
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night, for which I would like to share a ‘stream of consciousness’ poem I submitted to The Poetry Society’s Members’ Poems Competition on the topic of ‘scent’, which was unsuccessful. I inhale The summer trail Of dust and flowers Where we played for hours Sniffing wild fennel studded […]
Living Ghosts
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #71 June 9 – Behind Closed Doors Terrors of the terrace Living ghosts Creep up the ginnel Up and down the back yards In and out of gates Looking in windows Tapping on doors Listening Watching Haunting © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Song of the Sailor’s Wife
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – The Music in You – in which Mish has challenged us to write our own songs. I took my salty tears And gave them to the sea When the evening tide turned It brought them back to me The ocean cried The ocean wailed The day […]
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