I would love to go to Snardiff on the rhambangle train but I’ve heard that in Snardiff it’s likely to rain cats and dogs, if it’s not spitting leaves or feathers; it’s known to the locals as snardiffanous weather. If I don’t go, it’s no calamity because it’s dry and warm at home and full of […]
Outside My Front Door
outside my front door frost-bittten weeds wither between the gravel bashful birds flit in and out of a thorny hedgerow tendrils of woodbine intertwine with creeping ivy and wrestle with a fence festooned with a tracery of gossamer and silver snail spoors Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver # 96 […]
Great Wall of China
twisting and turning over mountainous terrain ancient dragon guards Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1096 The Great Wall of China by Einar Englund, Today’s music is by Einar Englund, a Finnish composer, and is called ‘The Great Wall of China’.
Frost Art
early morning frost sketching cobwebs and snail trails with a silver touch Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, December 14th 2016, Mixing It Up, a Haiku Writing Techniques In this new episode, Chèvrefeuille has introduced a haiku writing technique and challenged us to use it. […]
Rock Sculpture
unblinking eye in a grey socket of rock sculpted by water Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu My response to Carpe Diem Universal Jane #9 Naked Rock (AHA-poetry 2013) For this Universal Jane episode Chèvrefeuille has shared a few haiku from Jane’s book Naked Rock (2013) to inspire us, as well as two […]
Mantra
percussion the kiss of wood and metal musical mantra Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1095 Six Japanese Gardens by Kaija Saariaho Today Chèvrefeuille has introduced us to Kaija Saariaho, a Finnish composer I have never heard of, and her ‘Six Japanese Gardens’. He has also shared one of his own haiku […]
Death of a Star
brightest cosmic flash soundless explosion in space death throes of a star Kim M. Russell, 2016 My thirtieth and final haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Waiting for No One
They say time waits for no one, moving on, a tractor along a furrow, turning dark soil like broken chocolate into tomorrow, rattling through the season. We, like seagulls, follow, grey-headed envoys in the air, cursing the changing atmosphere. Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/gulls,tractor/Interesting My response to dverse Poets Pub Tuesday’s Poetics – It’s […]
Edelweiss
He captured her heart with his ludic smile that shone like a lantern. He cursed her heart, flambéed in edelweiss, until it crumbled in his hands. He tossed her heart, the irrevocable ashes, birdseed descendent on winter wind. Now he has no heart, looks askance at birds and friendly scarecrows, gnashing his alcohol-rotten teeth. Kim […]
A Poem Comes to Life
The white bones of a poem long for words, flesh of their existence. Wily words prick, leaving indelible tattoos on the poet’s soul, squirming onto a page, punctuated with Rorschach blots. The poet splits into three: artist, scribe and critic talk among themselves. Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads: The […]
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