his poem a bottle blue glass glittering in the sand washed up on sea swell salt and power ebb and crash on a distant beach buried in sediment until a girl’s bare foot stumbled upon a jewel hidden well among stones and shells its tattered label washed by the tide the message inside cryptic and […]
Category: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
Pamphlet Launch
Ingrid of Experiments in Fiction is hosting the launch of my poetry pamphlet, All Grown Up Now. Here is a link to the announcement and an invitation to the Zoom launch. It would be lovely to see you there.
Take it Home
There is litter in the verges, there is litter in the hedges, there is litter in the forests there is litter on the beaches. Take your litter home with you, put it in a bin; leaving litter everywhere is an awful sin. Takeaway wrappers on the kerb, thrown from passing traffic, fester with discarded vapes […]
Bird Seasons
Spring’s symphony is longover. Birds that filled everytree and bush with songare now hushed,and the dawn chorusis stifled by long hot days. A garden chiffchaffgives a final flourish,knowing that autumnand then winter will rushin, only in a matter of weeks,on a lonely crow’s cawand a tawny owl’s shrieks. Kim M. Russell, 15th August 2023 Image […]
All Grown Up Now
I’m delighted to announce that not only is the book version of my pamphlet, All Grown Up Now, available to pre-order on Amazon, but also the Kindle version, for which the link is: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CDWF1N4Y I’m also excited about the Zoom launch, which is scheduled for 6pm GMT on 26th August 2023. More information to follow.
A Riff on Infatuation
I have fallen in love with dragonflies, vicious predators that make me look a fool. I watch for dragonflies, and feel like a fool, transfixed by their buzzing and spangling. How those devil’s darning needles keep spangling! I love to watch them hover and flicker but summer light will soon begin to flicker, and the […]
My first poetry pamphlet
I am pleased to announce that, in collaboration with Ingrid of Experiments in Fiction, my first poetry pamphlet will be launched on 26th August. More information to follow.
Jasper’s Stone
He still has it in his car, the stone Jasper chasedacross the tide-flattened sand, his dog-tongue lolling,tail wagging and ears flapping, splashing in the waves;it keeps him alive for us, a little longer. Kim M. Russell, 13th July 2023 Laura is our host at dVerse Poets Pub this Thursday, where we are meeting the bar […]
Limerence
I am an unripe field with scarlet seepingthrough green stalks, a stain of fluttering blooms studded with the teary aftermathof warm summer rain. I take your breath and set your world on fire. Just one glanceis all it takes for you to fall. One close dance means that you are in my thrall, and I […]