My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #46: “What’s Left of the Flag” by Flogging Molly Crossing the borders of sanity Into lands unknown, Losing hope of humanity, Braving the future alone. Bearing the flag of freedom, Tattered and wind-blown; Grasping at remnants of reason In a handful of stone and bone. Craving for crumbs […]
Sunshine and Shadow
My response to Carpe Diem #973 Bulgaria Voluptuous heights sweep down to gorge, lake and sea sunshine and shadow. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.travelguide-en.org
The Proust Effect
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night, for which I would like to share a ‘stream of consciousness’ poem I submitted to The Poetry Society’s Members’ Poems Competition on the topic of ‘scent’, which was unsuccessful. I inhale The summer trail Of dust and flowers Where we played for hours Sniffing wild fennel studded […]
Living Ghosts
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #71 June 9 – Behind Closed Doors Terrors of the terrace Living ghosts Creep up the ginnel Up and down the back yards In and out of gates Looking in windows Tapping on doors Listening Watching Haunting © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Friendly Landscape
My response to Carpe Diem #972 The Netherlands In the last of the “Inner Six” (the six countries who founded the EU) we are visiting The Netherlands. canals and bridges divide the friendly landscape splashes of colour tulip fields beyond the dyke distant bell rings – tram or bike? © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]
Song of the Sailor’s Wife
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – The Music in You – in which Mish has challenged us to write our own songs. I took my salty tears And gave them to the sea When the evening tide turned It brought them back to me The ocean cried The ocean wailed The day […]
My Mother’s Hands
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille Our challenge this week is to take a haiku by a classical haiku poet: First autumn morning the mirror I stare into shows my father’s face. © Murakami Kijo* and then create a haibun with a maximum of 300 words, including our own original haiku. When […]
Neon Prey
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #82 Milan Rajkumar’s “frog on lotus leaf “, our inspiration today: frog on lotus leaf sitting and admiring lotus bloom does it care the snake which looms behind © milan rajkumar Image found on www.norfolkdragons.co.uk dragonfly hovers metallic blue wings whirring flashing soundlessly on the pond’s still surface […]
Cats and Willow
My response to dVerse Poets Pub’s Haibun Monday #15 All Things Quotidian Toni has challenged us to think about everyday occurrences and write about them in a compact, haibun of one paragraph with one haiku at the end. The haiku must be 5-7-5 or short-long-short and must be about nature, tying the everyday things all together. […]
Demented Forest
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #116 She felt herself shrinking In a forest of demented trees Monochrome like barcodes From a neurodegenerative disease. She felt a rage erupting That mutated into delusion, Dived deep into strange faces, Emerging in confusion. She couldn’t remember the way Along paths she’d often trod But familiar walks […]
