My response to Carpe Diem #992 Willow – I have taken one of the first poems I posted last year, deconstructed it and turned it into a tanka. a bothersome breeze buffets the willow bending with the weight of tears, holding up anaemic clouds above our soggy garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Category: Tanka
Stargazing with Bare Feet
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #86 Back In Time “Only The First Line” This week the challenge is to use the first line from a haiku written by Chèvrefeuille as the first line in a new haiku or tanka. with bare feet I stand in the night garden looking up at stars: exploding […]
Alder
My response to Carpe Diem #991 Alder Adorned with lucent Lichen, its dark bark fissured, Doom and bad luck bloom, Effusive moths and catkins Raining fairy camouflage © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.flowerfairyprints.com
Magical Rowan
My response to Carpe Diem #990 Rowan tree resilient wood, red berries and pentagrams: protective rowan rides shotgun in rocks and trees, makes the witches lose their speed © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Breeze Blessing
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #105 “coming to sea cliffs” by Jane Reichhold coming to sea cliffs the off-shore breeze raises a flower fragrance © Jane Reichhold blessing ancient crumbling rocks with ocean’s salty essence © Kim M. Russell
The Sturdy Oak
My response to Carpe Diem #989 Oak child of autumn born the oak starts as an acorn grows sturdy and strong shelters bluebell and primrose crowned with leaves and mistletoe © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Mountain Sounds
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #104 “by the mountain spring” by Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė by the mountain spring we talk about the same things just in other words © Goda Virginija Bendoraitienė accompanied by nature: duet […]
Dream Fishing
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge # 103 Basho’s “a flash of lightning!” inazuma ya yami no kata yuku goi no koe a flash of lightning— passing through the darkness a night heron’s scream © Basho (1644-1694) statue still it waits for prey in the shallows of my dreams © Kim M. Russell, 2016 […]
Butterfly Ghost
For my response to Carpe Diem CD-special #210 Joyce Lorenson’s 2nd “butterfly wings” I have deconstructed a poem I posted last October into a tanka: Ghostly butterfly, on fragile wings of tissue hangs from a cobweb, work of an eerie artist tied up in gossamer thread. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on […]
Copenhagen
My response to Carpe Diem #975 Denmark bright houses and boats against a water-washed sky welcome seafarers home again to the embrace of Copenhagen city © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 