tending alpacas in the shadows of mountains ancient warriors Kim M. Russell, 9th May 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1427 Huanca Today Chèvrefeuille has given us some background to the Huanca, Quechua people who live in the Junín Region of central Peru, in and around the Mantaro Valley.
Junin
hide and seek landscape glaciers and rain forests steaming up valleys Kim M. Russell, 8th May 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1426 Junin, Mantaro Valley In a new Andean episode we are visiting another region along the Peruvian Railroad: Junín, a region in the central highlands and westernmost Peruvian Amazon.
Muddle
From an untidy, disorganised muddle, we unpick poems, cuddle them close until they breathe. In a cluttered, haphazard jumble of thoughts and ideas, words tumble and line up themselves up cleaving imagery into stanzas, weaving poetic sanity from knots and tangles of the mind. Kim M. Russell, 7th May 2018 My response to dVerse Poets […]
Still Life with Bare Branches
bare branches a painting against the blue sky leaves under my feet © Yozakura, the Wandering Spirit bare branches vibrant leaves drift on the wind summer has been shed a painting against the blue sky raven-black brush marks nature’s autograph leaves under my feet crackling pool of red and gold rotting to russet Kim M. […]
Layering
Spring has come in layers, from the first swallows of the year drawing fresh lines through still air and busily nesting in eaves, to carpets of flowers, fragments of sky among nettles and grass, and the honeyed murmur of bees. Kim M. Russell, 6th May 2018 A sunny Sunday morning has inspired this little poem […]
Decadence
Through shades of monochrome aureate decadence glimmers: feathered turban shimmers; richly embroidered sleeve and shoulder spark white and grey, a hint of gold. But her eyes are hidden embers, cold, old. Kim M. Russell, 5th May 2018 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Camera FLASH! Kerry says it’s time to strike a pose […]
River Talk
the river’s talking narrating tidal stories garbage ebb and flow Kim M. Russell, 4th May 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1425 El Río Hablador (The Talking River) Our prompt for today is ‘El Rio Hablador’ (The Talking River), a nickname for the Rimac River, which is is located in western Peru.
Clean Hands and Clean Feet
I’m delighted that I have another ekphrastic poem in Volume 5, Chapter 7 of the Visual Verse Anthology. You can find it on page 11 or you can follow the link to ‘Clean Hands and Clean Feet‘.
Frida’s Reality
“I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” Frida Kahlo Mexican heat invades each night, pervades the frangible seams and transmutes dreams to nightmares, thickly oiling the barren landscape vivid, livid with pain. Morning arrives again with the promise of reality, a canvas to daub with certainty self-portraits of her truth. Kim M. Russell, […]
First Love
shy exchange of smiles fluttering of butterflies gently touching hands Kim M. Russell, 3rd May 2018 My response to Carpe Diem Romancing Haiku #3 first love The goal of this special feature is to create love-haiku about first love.
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