Content in our garden’s leafy shade, I think back to weedy margins on a distant council estate, full of dandelions and significance, between pan-hot pavement and simmering black tar, a strip of withered grass, litter-strewn and dotted with dog mess, where bike wheels used to spin, click, tick; children clutched coins in sweaty hands at […]
Turnstone Insomnia
On the rocky shores of just after midnight and well before wave-break of day, turnstones tip pebbles, clatter in my head, and run across my shipwrecked bed, drenched with shadow-spray. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on rspb.org.uk My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Of Insomnia and Sleep In today’s prompt, Sanaa has […]
Leaning Into Storms
leaning into storms not grappling with gravity non-resistant pines Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on http://www.britannica.com My response to Carpe Diem #1207 Non-Resistance In this episode Chèvrefeuille is taking a closer look at the character of the Tibetan people. He reminds us that some time in the early fifties of the last century, China […]
Yoga in Tibet
dizzy from deep breath of yoga pose and balance stillness of mountains Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1206 Yoga (especially Tibetan 5 rites Yoga) In a new episode of our virtual journey through Tibet, Chèvrefeuille has introduced us to Tibetan Yoga, the union of mind, body and […]
Fay Watson and the Empty Chair
You want me to sit on what you think is an empty chair? Not while he sits there, his soft blond hair matted with blood, face grey as the smoke from the gun I pressed to his head. He’s not dead to me, he’s locked in my brain, a bloody stain I can’t scrub clean. […]
Smiling with the Sun
generous Buddha spreads warm smiles on mountain peaks Himalayan sun Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1205 Smile In a new episode of CDHK’s journey through Tibet our prompt is ‘smile’. Chèvrefeuille tells us that Tibetans are called the smiling people: they are always friendly and smiling. He […]
Landing in Sand
When I was at school I loved athletics, especially long jump. The feeling of sprinting up to the board as fast as I possibly could and then taking off into space filled me with expectation and elation, with the wind in my face and the dappled shadows of the trees in the sand, freshly raked […]
Stubborn as a Yak
in the cold mountains a yak’s wool holds summer warmth obstinate and true Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on iStock My response to Carpe Diem #1204 Yaks (another reprise) In another episode of this month’s journey to Tibet, Chèvrefeuille has revived a previous prompt on the theme of Yaks. He tells us that the […]
I got back from Wales…
and I have another poem in the latest Visual Verse. Here’s a link to the June issue, Vol. 4, Chapter 8 of the online Visual Verse anthology. You can find my poem on page 38 or you can link directly to the poem, entitled ‘Demented’.
House Martins
below the roof edge on a jutting ledge snowy flash of feathered legs returning to eggs busy between hawthorn hedge and the young they fledge dizzy Kim M. Russell, 2017 House Martins by Mark Kilner from the Springwatch Flickr group, found on bbc.co.uk. My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Lai it […]
writing in north norfolk 