After the delay to summer’s end, autumn fruits and berries remind us of the taste of summer the luxurious heat the lingering light the genesis of brand new buds of spring red purple gold and brown wrapped in grey mist and the smell of leaves smoke curls from a bonfire long before the chimneys belch […]
Leaf
single yellow leaf the first on the cherry tree it hung there all week yesterday the wind blew strong the yellow leaf has fallen Kim M. Russell, 9th September 2018 My response to Carpe DiemTanka Splendour: Autumn Leaves Tanka Splendour has just been restarted, with the weekly challenge of creating a Tanka on a given […]
The Beauty of Flatness
we wake each day in a flat landscape earth and sky extend to the horizon the only line breaks in this epic poem are corrugations of ridges and furrows ditches choked with waterweed and marsh woundwort’s stout pink heads birds smudge the milky welkin as they slip low over marsh and field spooked by the […]
Dampened Bell
autumn mist rolls in silencing the call to prayer with its damp fingers Kim M. Russell, 6th September 2018 the temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers Matsuo […]
A Sip of Charity
They say charity begins at home and to love another you must love yourself. Whether we open our hearts or we open a door, charity is a dew-filled flower on which we all can sip. Kim M. Russell, 6th September 2018 My response to Poets United Midweek Motif: Charity Yesterday was the International Day of […]
Midwinter Lights
midwinternight a dark sky’s lights dance in the wolf’s eyes Hamish Managua Gunn wild and feral aurora howling in the moon’s embrace Kim M. Russell, 6th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge Chained Together III: in the wolf’s eyes In the fourth episode of the latest […]
A Winter Forecast
I watch the mist of an autumn morning creep across the fields, shrouding the grey outline of the church and leaving a scattering of dew. In this moment I think of you still chasing dreams like a youthful robin tuning up in preparation for the spring, and me a wood pigeon with my loud and […]
End of an Unruffled Summer
a soothing breeze cicadas sing their song sound of water Chèvrefeuille (2015) the last trickle of summer as yet unruffled by storms Kim M. Russell, 4th September 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Tan Renga Challenge September 2018 Chained Together III (3) a soothing breeze In this episode of the Renga […]
First Winter Rain
all the day long- yet not long enough for the skylark, singing, singing into the dusky shadows […]
Morning
Since I retired and as I get older, I find I need less sleep. I frequently wake around three, four or five o’clock, unable to return to the dark cocoon that enveloped me so cosily when I was younger. When the cats chirrup from the bedroom door, I no longer turn over and burrow back […]
