lamps lit at sunset a waterscape filled with blue wisteria sky Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1257 Wisteria Blues (Jonathan Reid) In today’s episode of ‘Imagination Without Limits’, out inspiration is an image found on the Tumblr BonitaVista. The photograph was taken at the Lake Como in Italy; it’s called ‘Wisteria […]
Eloquence
My favourite poetic form is the dVerse Quadrille, with its challenge of a limited number of words, freedom of layout and choice of whether to rhyme or not. However, I tend to gravitate towards the sonnet, with its history, famous sonneteers and advocates, as well as its rules, which were made to be broken – […]
Shifting Sand
sand and stars innumerable wishes shifting dreams Kim M. Russell My response to Carpe Diem #1256 Grains of Sand For today’s CD Imagination, Chèvrefeuille has shared an image he found on Tumblr. I thought I’d try an experimental haiku.
A Hundred Gourds
a hundred gourds from the heart of one vine Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775) a hundred gourds cascading sunset colours shades of autumn from the heart of a small vegetable patch a healthy harvest of one vine calabash for everyone a grateful village Kim M. Russell, […]
Whenever the lights go out…
we mutter and complain about missing the news again the stereo stops playing and we live off sandwiches for a while candles flicker inside stars twinkle outside silence is a palpable buzzing and crackling inside ears and heads so we feed it with words that might not otherwise have been said. Kim M. Russell, 2017 […]
Cactus Cowboy – a poem in Visual Verse
Here’s a link to the September issue, Vol. 4, Chapter 11 of the online Visual Verse anthology. You can find my poem on page 28 or you can link directly to the poem, entitled ‘Cactus Cowboy’.
Impressions of Gressenhall
Red bricks echo with the homeless and poor, from the squeak of wrought-iron gate to the heavy fall of knocker on imposing door. They reverberate with hunger, fuelled by gruel and mouse-meagre morsel trails of bread-and-cheese through the corridors of their history. They are organised and counted by the workhouse clock, punctuated with oakum, elbow […]
Evacuation
A chill murmurs through trees still wearing summer frocks stained with fruit and chestnut rust. Early morning mist conceals a fox on a mission to find rations. Marsh harriers fuel up for migration, fighter planes above the mere, forming shadow vectors over fields of brown-gold stubble and hedgerows grey with old man’s beard. Along the […]
Sweeping the Park
traffic pulses around a city park in its heart autumn is swept into piles a colourful wheelbarrow Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1255 City Park Today’s inspiration is a photo taken by Chèvrefeuille of a park not far from his home. I thought I’d try a little experimentation using a photograph […]
Ascension
climbing nature’s stairs step by step with each calm breath green meditation Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1254 stairs of nature Today’s image was taken somewhere in Portugal by someone named Jan and Chèvrefeuille says he found it on Tumblr.
writing in north norfolk 