Peeking Cat Poetry Magazine has a new feature called Peeking Cat Perspectives. Once a month they post an image, about which they would like us to write something inspired: a poem, prose, or just a few lines.They suggest that we avoid looking at other people’s responses before we write our own, so that we’re not […]
Tag: Blogging
My thoughts and questions about blogging.
Mortality
again and again grief taps me on the shoulder gentle reminder Kim M. Russell, 2017
Starting the New Year with Visual Verse
After a bleak start to the New Year, my mood is a little lighter now that another of my submissions has been included in the latest online Visual Verse anthology. At the moment, my poem ‘Blue’ is on page 17 of Vol. 4, Chapter 3: http://visualverse.org
Following Threads
A poem found in Science Alert in an article by Peter Dockrill in paint-laden brushstrokes fractal patterns trace cognitive changes like snowflakes self-repeating and replicating in each work of art analysing artists’ souls following flimsy threads of neurodegenerative decline Kim M. Russell, 2016 Salvador Dali’s The Basket of Bread (1926) and The Swallow’s Tail (1983). […]
Just a Second
Apparently, this pile of guff Of a year isn’t long enough: Due to slowing Earth rotation, To ensure clock synchronisation, An extra leap second Will be added to its end. Kim M. Russell, 2016 Dennis van Zuijlekom/Flickr found on Science Alert
First Snow
a single flake glistening in the moonlight heralds morning snow Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem Seven Days Before Christmas 2016 #4 first snow We are counting down to Christmas 2016 in this CD special feature and Chèvrefeuille is dreaming of a white Christmas; he says that they […]
Cold Hands
Your hands were always cold, my dear, Despite temperature and weather, The only time they warmed, my dear, Was when we were together, When you put your arms around my waist And intertwined your fingers. I can feel your breath upon my cheek, The scent of you still lingers, But now there’s only icy hands, […]