She’s a bright splatter of golden petalled bloom anchored in earth with her many faces in a single head. Her roots absorb toxins from the flowerbed as she worships the sun, tracking its movement across the sky with the loyalty of a lover’s eye. Kim M. Russell, 15th July 2019 My response to dVerse Poets […]
Poetry Pea Podcast: Trees
Patricia has kindly included two of my haiku in the latest Poetry Pea Podcast Series 2 Episode 14: Trees. There are some stunning tree haiku from around the world, and Patricia reads them beautifully. You can listen to the podcast as well as read the notes to accompany it on the Poetry Pea website.
Summer Rain – a troiku
after the summer heat raindrops kissing my naked body Ah! that coolness Chèvrefeuille after the summer heat longs days in vanishing shade a hopeful cloud raindrops kissing my naked body replacing dust and sweat […]
Bicycle Utopia
in a quiet world the tinkling of bicycles bells and a warm breeze Kim M. Russell, 14th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #93 Carpe Diem’s Utopia: transportation For this weekend’s meditation we have a new episode of our Carpe Diem’s Utopia, a challenge you to create classical haiku or tanka with […]
Inner Robot
I haven’t submitted to Visual Verse in a long while, but I was inspired by July’s image by Franck V.- and my poem has been included! You can either click here to read all of the poems and find mine on page 25, or you can go directly to ‘Inner Robot‘.
Grandmother’s Trinket Box
The tiny ballerina danced to a melody from Swan Lake played on tiny bells when you opened the lid – she posed before a mirror en pointe, like I once did. A heap of trinkets sparkled, a treasure trove to me, glittering golden brooches, dangling earrings with rubies and an emerald buckle bangle: my Sunday […]
Swan skims the water
Swan skims the water dips its beak into molten orange sun-spill, breaks the meniscus that keeps the dark depths in before lifting its wings upwards into pink and violet layers of sky a single white feather rocks on ripples Kim M. Russell 12th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1701 sundown (or sunset) one-bun […]
Sweetening the View
Someone has gathered a bunch of monochrome moons and tied them to a grey bridge, beneath a grey sky, where they collect grey city dust, when all they want to do is drift away… At the end of the day, sunset splashes paint across the cityscape, reveals a rainbow cloud of balloons, no longer moons […]
Cooling Down
caressing bare feet cool shadows in the long grass a rustling breeze Kim M. Russell, 11th July 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1700 cooling down In the 1700th regular episode, in a month that’s all about summer love, today’s theme is ‘cooling down’, with a few haiku by Basho on the topic to give […]
North Wind
The North Wind teases moored-up boats, ties knots in grass along the coast, leaves on our lips a salty taste, and chases inland ocean ghosts. It plays hide and seek with housewives’ washing, steals old folks’ breath and sets them coughing, plucks at branches, sends them crashing, and cheers the rain’s pouring and splashing. The […]
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