This year I missed the clusters, drupelets of ruby and jet that glowed with autumn lustre and others unripe as yet. I was too busy being a poet caught in imaginative rambles to pick sweet fruit from brambles. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Form for All — Chaucerian Stanza or […]
Tag: Blackberries
Roadside Gems – May Tan Renga
taste of nature– sweet blackberry bushes sing to child and bees © Sara McNulty tart emeralds turn to jet glittering in the hedgerow Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #11 taste of nature (Sara McNulty) Today’s ‘hokku’ has been created by one our […]
Another seasonal poem
Brambles In the midst Of an impenetrable thicket A tangle of vigorous fast-growing Densely arching stems A hoard of shiny gems Spanning two seasons In a crown of thorns Blackberries Delicious Devilish fruit Spat on by Satan On Michaelmas Day Burning orbs of drupelets Red when they’re green When plump and ripe Delicate ebony eyes […]
writing in north norfolk 