a concrete eyrie glass commands views and sunlight in all directions Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1238 Crossed House (Manuel Clavel Rojo) Today we have another piece of modern architecture for inspiration. This one can be found in Spain – in Murcia. Designed by Manuel Clavel Rojo, it is the ‘Crossed […]
Mapping Memories
I start to trace the map of her face, the contours of her cheeks, pools of blue eyes, her valleys and her peaks, drawing from distant memories, trying to forget more recent days, colouring the sunshine hours, and feeling her warmth. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Musical Muse […]
Stranded
After the hurly burly of a storm on uninhabited isles – green jewels in crystal foam – a custard wind blows under the rim of a bluff clad with cushions of turf and crowned with rock shaped like a whale. This is where stranded mermaids watch clouds sail and forests splash and crash their splendid […]
Migraine
lights start to crackle from a pinpointed dull ache fractal explosions Kim M. Russell, 2017 Fractal Art created by PSSolutions, found by Chèvrefeuille on Pixabay My response to Carpe Diem #1237 Fractal Art (by PSSolutions) Chèvrefeuille explains fractal art as a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results […]
Shakespeare Dreaming
Words fall on fertile ground, blossoming midsummer dreams or sprouting mares of thorn and bane. While the poet’s pendulum swings, chimera of the mind whips whirring wings of fantasy into comedy, romance and tragedy, borne on feathered quill to make of what you will. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille […]
At Cley…
a sigh of seeding grasses purple-mists the marshes where sea touches shingle with a salty, osculating tingle. Flagrantly expansive August sky – empty of birds but clouds sail by – breathes sun-warmed rusty seaweed, samphire and yellow agrimony, and then blows harder in an attempt to float a sea-loving, pebble-beached boat. Kim M. Russell, 2017
Higgledy-piggledy
In the labyrinthine malformed lanes and backstreets of imagination, dead-reckoning never takes me north, south, east or west, but always looks left, to the sinister side of my brain. Blindfolded by the torn curtain of fantasy, I press on in my wanderings, and my gait cannot help but feign a gritty, natural inclination to embed […]
Mirror
mirrors of our eyes reflecting heart, mind and soul coloured cloud and sky Kim M. Russell, 2017 ‘Mirror’ by Jaume Plensa My response to Carpe Diem #1236 Mirror by Jaume Plensa Chèvrefeuille reminds us that this month we are exploring all kinds of modern art and today we have ‘Mirror’, a sculpture created by the […]
Old Cat Young Cat
arise from sleep, old cat, and with great yawns and stretchings… amble out for love A haiku by Kobayashi Issa, which inspired me to write curious young cat, tail an exclamation mark, revealed by your purr Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Utabukuro, the poem-bag #1 re-introduction “a single tulip” Chèvrefeuille has […]
Words out of Leaves out of Words
A perfect russet leaf for her to press between the leaves of sonnets, caught on her sweater, tucked into her pocket, gave her the words she wrote on her note pad of new po- ems . Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Weekend Mini-Challenge: Out of Your Own Words […]
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