My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: the Sevenling Who says life is all births, deaths and marriages? My life is all land, sea and soul-scapes – shared with you. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 (google images)
Category: Poems
End of the Storm
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #25: Cinquain Lightning Flickers, buzzes Like a fly zig-zagging Across the sky – thunder rumbles Softly. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Footprints to the Past
A villanelle in response to imaginary garden with real toads – The Tuesday Platform A simple flint tool left the world aghast, unearthed on a crumbling North Norfolk shore, led to fossilised footprints from the past. Found on a coastline that’s receding fast in the Norfolk village of Happisburgh, a simple flint tool […]
The Calm Before the Storm
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #107 A fickle mistress is the sea Sailors know her intimately One day a tranquil incandescence The next a crashing effervescence Throwing wrecks up on the shore Love-struck sailors crave for more Guided by stars and constellations Seduced by their night-time scintillations And by the magnificence of […]
Fragile
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille #6 – Shimmer The ice queen stared at her frozen looking-glass heart shimmering glimmering its patina of ice scintillating in brittle fragility waiting for the crack of an unfaithful fist the slow-motion shimmy and shatter of smithereens a flurry of pulverised promises each fragment reflecting his face […]
Soundtrack to a Sunday in Spring
My response to imaginary garden with real toads April Poetry Month – Day 4 – “Nature Poetry” Sunshine caresses buds, blesses a blackbird perched on a branch of awakening willow, jerking and jinking. Beyond the gate, boats on the river are bobbing and chinking. An undertone, the distant thrum of a Sunday mower has begun. […]
Midnight Express
A shadorma in response to the Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #31 In the hall I hear the distant metallic rock and click of the midnight express train fade away from town © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on merapoetics.com
Last Night’s Storm
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #10 – was it a coincidence that there was a rocking storm in the early hours of this morning? Last night’s chrysalism Gave way to rock and roll hypnotism of thunderous heavy metal in the sky magnetic seduction from dreams to the reality of a panel of glass the […]
Miranda’s Tempest in 55 words
I have rewritten my Tempest in 400 Characters for this response to imaginary garden with real toads Flash 55 PLUS Life with Prospero, Surrounded by sea, Since I was three, It was a dream, Then a nightmare At the hands Of Caliban. Stormy waves, Turbulent heart, When father by his art Put the ocean […]
Lunatic Virtuoso
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – 4 – grin The crescent moon has almost disappeared A Cheshire cat grinning at my madness Silver smugness Reminiscent of my aunt’s Buddha Rotund on the mantelpiece Smiling down at four-year-old me Playing the ebony Notes on the upright piano A virtuoso Only Buddha didn’t think so […]
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