A Thousand Candles

remembrance light of a thousand candles silhouetting souls Kim M. Russel, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1253 Thousand Candles In a month all about ‘Imagination Without Limits’, today we have another Tumblr image found on ‘AvaZenGarden’, with which there was a quote from  Buddha: “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, […]

Free…

as the molecular waviness of sky and sea busking elemental music; as cool sand beneath uncurling toes and wind unfurling strands of hair like wheeling gulls; as a ladybird on its way home, flying between blades of grass before it lands on my hand. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Monday […]

Raindrops and Rainbows

Squared Tan Renga #1 three raindrops a greeting card from heaven… midsummer heat                                       (Issa) three slowly trickling teardrops wishing you were here with me wishes and feathers falling from the clearest sky colour of your eyes blurring with raindrops and tears start of a summer rainstorm Squared Tan Renga #2 flying away following the rainbow […]

My Dearest Book

I wrote you a love poem but I can’t remember how I found you: you were simply there, when the day before you were not. Your black and white circus of dreams was marvellously prefabricated and you easily enchanted me into your circular paths, drew me to your bonfire’s heat. Your acrobats and fortune-tellers thrilled, […]

Spellbound

Spell- bound by northern lights, I sigh like a whale stranded in the middle of a solar storm, muddled by Earth’s magnetic field. Separated for so long from the human pod, I                         (circum) navigate                   (relation) ships, until I flounder in shallow water, listening for my next breath. Kim M. Russell, 2017     […]