Screwing up his face, Simon squinted and fixed his eyes on the fireflies dancing and leaping above the wooden fence at the bottom of the garden. It was a late summer afternoon and he remembered his father telling him that fireflies only came out when it was dark. The six-year-old boy stood on tiptoe a […]
Coulrophobia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt #50: Send in the Clowns I don’t like clowns, They make me scared; The ones with red noses and untameable hair, Send them away. I don’t feel safe. I don’t approve. Rowdy, disruptive and always on the move, Boisterous clowns. I don’t like clowns. I prefer the […]
Fraxinus Excelsior
My response to Carpe Diem #993 Ash Ash, tree of healing, Spreads its leafy canopy, heals the lonely soul with bright berries and winged seeds, helicopters in the breeze. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on treegrowersdiary.com
Willow in the Rain (reprise)
My response to Carpe Diem #992 Willow – I have taken one of the first poems I posted last year, deconstructed it and turned it into a tanka. a bothersome breeze buffets the willow bending with the weight of tears, holding up anaemic clouds above our soggy garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016
How Grandmothers Began
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #75 July 7th – Bedtime Stories for Grandparents Once upon a time, When the world had just begun, Everything was fresh and new And everyone was young, No grandfathers like you Or grandmothers like me, No-one to tuck you in Or read a bedtime story. One morning, a […]
The Smuggler’s Treasure
Happisburgh is a pretty, ancient coastal village, battered by the North Sea at the top of Norfolk, a place where smugglers were known to land their boats and stash their booty. For more than two hundred years, villagers and visitors to the area reported seeing a glowing figure of a man dressed in the clothes […]
Peeling away Another Layer
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 6th 2016 This week’s challenge is to create a summer haibun with a maximum of 75 words including the haiku (or tanka). It’s July. So far we’ve had mostly rain, so I haven’t worn summer clothes. On hot days, our cottage is usually a welcome […]
Stargazing with Bare Feet
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #86 Back In Time “Only The First Line” This week the challenge is to use the first line from a haiku written by Chèvrefeuille as the first line in a new haiku or tanka. with bare feet I stand in the night garden looking up at stars: exploding […]
A poem in July’s Visual Verse
I am so pleased that another of my submissions has been included in the latest online Visual Verse anthology. At the moment, my poem ‘Baring my Soul’ is on page 25: http://visualverse.org
Dark Dreams of Drowning
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #120 also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform – Alessio Albi Caught in a net of despair, Rank water dripping from your hair Patters like tiny fingers tapping In the languid lake. Feet grasped by reeds And ponderous pondweed, Lips tight shut against intrusive […]
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