I’m just a common snipe skulking in the gutter With my short legs, filthy face, squint and stutter, Cowering from the chorus of curses that they mutter, Outcast, urchin, ragamuffin, nutter. They want to trap this guttersnipe inside a birdcage, Break my thirst for brawls and wrangle with my rage, Button up my cheeky lip […]
October Farewells
migrating swallows break in waves across the sun sobbing their goodbyes © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.express.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem Special (2nd guest) Kala Ramesh’s “sunbirds peck” Chèvrefeuille has brought us the first CD Special by our second guest Kala Ramesh, a haiku poet from India who was also featured last year. howling […]
Breathing Space
minds need oxygen space in which to breathe circles around a living tree with green lungs for green minds breathing space in which to grow circulating, flowing and growing inspiring spiral steps from level to level increase aspiration to become trees with green minds breathing space in which to grow circulating and growing breathing space © Kim […]
Morning Sun in October
Overnight gusts of wind and rain have plucked leaves from the trees, waking early morning birds: October’s first words. Glints of sun on haws in hedgerows evaporate tear-shaped drops of rain on gleaming rosehips: a smile on your lips. Rowans droop under weight of fruit, scarlet beads radiate with promise of fair weather: a day […]
Grinding Words with Stone
inky black Incense rises from the grinding stone haiku embryos © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.metmuseum.org My response to Carpe Diem #1070 pen and inkstone This month all the regular prompts are tools used for all kinds of arts and ways of creativity. Today Chèvrefeuille has given us ‘pen and inkstone’, the classical tools of […]
Withstanding Life’s Wreckage
Life’s storm blows in from elsewhere. She’s wrung out, Washed up By a swollen sea. Breakers bear down, Rolling in interminable hosts, Torrents of foamy ghosts, The only sounds of wind And her wails: Her mast is broken, Jerking in a tangle of rigging and sails. With Morpheus’ help, she dives under And drifts into […]
Sheaves in Autumn
Sheaves of cloud weeping seeds of rain on plane leaves wet and black echo muffled on the lawn- it’s autumn again. Remembrance of the sheaves of men harvested from French fields engenders tears from heaven for those who were slain. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma […]
Resting in Shadows
in the daytime heat pigeons cool feathers in shade weariness of wings © Kim M. Russell, 2016 “Rest” © Paul Militaru My response to Carpe Diem Imagination with Paul Militaru #1 rest Chèvrefeuille has welcomed us to October 2016 and presented an all new celebration logo. He has also introduced us to our first guest of the month, Paul […]
Leafless
bashful branches hide bare behind a shroud of mist cold comfort © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1069 leafless trees This is the last episode of our tribute to Jane month, which concludes with the last modern kigo of winter from Jane’s “A Dictionary of Haiku”. Today ‘leafless trees’ is the prompt, for […]
Seasonal Perspectives of a Corkscrew Willow
1 Winter willows throw dramatic and distorted geometric shapes. 2 Naked trunks rise cracking from brittle grass, shedding frost and ice. 3 Intricate lace of charcoal branches is pinned to pale winter skies. 4 Lemon catkins, wriggling with new growth and warmth, anticipate spring. 5 Tousled corkscrews are teased into a tangle, wind-willowed. 6 Leaves […]
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