The circus is over; curses escape rouged lips, the mask slips, dripping with clay lumpen and grey. Clown hands squeeze, poking dreams filled with screams trapped in a false face – a frozen grimace. Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Metaphorical Mask, also linked to earthweal open link […]
Newgrange Solstice
a bend in the Boyne cradles a monument ancient mystery waiting in the gloomy tomb for a ray of solstice sun Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1287 Ireland Chèvrefeuille reminds us that Basho was a travelling haiku poet and, back in the summer of 2016, CDHK had its first Ginko (haiku-walk), […]
Winter Reeds
golden reed beds rise along banks of winter lakes glimmers of sunshine shafts in turbulent water break silence with their soughing Kim M. Russell, 2017 My ninth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Bay Tree Blues (or Greens)
Your branches no longer rub against the gutter, there is no friendly creak in boisterous winds; your limbs were amputated, disintegrated in the garden shredder. You still stand strong, birds sing among shiny winter green leaves, while you breathe out your noble pepper aroma. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: […]
Love
more than a feeling small seed growing in the soul a flowering heart Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1286 Love In a new episode of CDHK, today we have an ‘old’ prompt from February 2016, the month in which all prompts were set by our pirate Hamish Managua Gunn and had […]
Beauty on a Rainy day
metallic grey day rain spits against the window an orchid blushes Kim M. Russell, 2017 My eighth response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Conqueror of the Sky
magical moment a heart-stopping bird of prey flying in loose circles Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1285 Conqueror of the Sky Today we are being inspired by a composition by Peter Crowley, entitled ‘conqueror of the sky’, which brought to my mind a party of medieval falconers hunting on horseback with […]
Light
sun fades from the sky villagers switch on their lights a hillside of stars Kim M. Russell, 2017 My seventh response to Carpe Diem Winter Retreat 2017: Life is Beautiful
Bound by Faeries
Bound by a hedge of spiteful briars in the spellbound heart of a night-time forest, a rose lay hidden from men’s desires for a hundred years, as was promised by a jealous fairy in a fit of rage, who imprisoned the palace in a thorny cage. Young men who came to press their suit were […]
Life
the meaning of life reverberates through seasons Mother Nature’s song Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1284 meaning of life (BrunuhVille) Today we have music for inspiration: ‘meaning of life’ by the Portuguese musician BrunuhVille.
writing in north norfolk 