My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 9 – green Emerald light Filtered through foliage Transmutes into shadows of green, A mute cocoon of verdant solitude, A shroud unseen. Words are leaves that fly, Animated by breath of breeze To stop mouths and ears of passers-by, Who don’t see The poet under the tree. […]
Travelling Light
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #113 Image by Unknown Sharp in the sunlight, Melted snow Of lingering winter Revealed new growth. In the drifting bark Shifting sounds marked The changing of the season: The clamour of skeins of geese And rooks emitting their phlegmy belches As they built a shanty town In […]
Lotus Petals
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 Latifa Prayer episode 2 “I exist” with each breath the soul floats with the lotus flower, caressing petals © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Crisis of Friction
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #109 Born in a cluster of stars, The lonely poet offers Her handwritten score To the universe, Spilling her ink-infused sorrow On limestone edifices: A blurry hierogram of verse And perception, A cultural crisis of friction When her soul-drenched work Is read on a Kindle – She feels thrown […]
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Saying Goodbye to the Island, Poetry by Kim M. Russell
Exploring Rodin
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Open a new door with me Paris a sunny day we strolled hand in hand to the Musée Rodin passed through doors to explore marble skin and burnished bronze bones bathed in dust speckled bars of light wandered into a garden of statues planted among shrubs and flowers […]
The show is over
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #79 Looking Back In Time … “Sparkling Stars” each cherry petal enfolded in a raindrop the show is over © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Echoes of an Autumn Walk
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #112 and dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday Raindrops from a recent shower release a pungent whiff of mulch from the litter of autumn in various states of decay. In dry patches, below a dense lattice of branches, rusty skeletons crunch underfoot and beetles scuttle, while my boots slip […]
Unfurling Tendrils
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month May 10th “the willow leaves fallen” by Yosa Buson the willow leaves fallen, the spring gone dry, rocks here and there © Yosa Buson (1716-1784) weeds emerge from shady cracks […]
Nature’s Secrets
My response to the secret keeper Weekly Writing Prompt #36 Light breeze drifts, Breathes distinctive scents: Salt and life, Shingle beach, Wilderness of marsh and reed Hold nature’s secrets. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
writing in north norfolk 