My response to A Dash of Sunny Prompt Nights On Popular Demand – Lets gather around for some ghost stories – [8] Sanaa has asked us to gather around for some ghost stories, either a poem or a fiction piece, and for inspiration gave us the poems: ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by John Keats, ‘Mad […]
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My thoughts and questions about blogging.
A Sunday Walk with Cormorants
My response to imaginary garden with real toads Not What We came To See ~ Micro Poetry We’re putting the “mini’ back into the Sunday Mini-Challenge, and returning to the option of form poetry. The challenge is to write a poem in no more than 10 lines, choosing our own form or sticking to free verse. […]
I Miss You
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #173 “Collage 28” Together, they inhaled autumn: Decomposing leaves, Wet fox in undergrowth, Brambles snagging sleeves, Following fallen acorns until the sun broke through. He found a perfect russet Leaf for her to press, Alleviate her distress At his leaving. She pumped into his suitcase A cloud of her […]
Breathing in Forest
My response to Carpe Diem #1030 path We have another inspirational quote, this time from Haiku family member Hamish Managua Gunn of the Tumblr blog “haiku forest”: “Ah…and then there’s the path, always the path, there, to concentrate on.” breathing in forest, wet fox in head-high nettles, firm path underfoot, I follow fallen pine cones, […]
Relentless Reverie
My response to imaginary garden with real toads Fireblossom Friday “Perchance To Dream” “To sleep, perchance to dream…” –Hamlet The challenge is to write about–or from–a dream. I have taken some words and phrases from a poem I wrote and posted just over a year ago and created a new one. The reverie was relentless: a […]
Autumn on the Horizon
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – August 20, 2016 I hadn’t heard of the poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and will be looking for more of her work after reading today’s prompt poem: Landscape with Desire Next month maples along this lake will rage orange and scarlet. Firs we barely discern on that […]
Heart Feelings
My response to Carpe Diem #1029 Felt With The Heart Today’s quote prompt is from American author Hellen Keller (1880-1968): “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” magnifying glass of feelings and emotions heart’s erratic dance © […]
Out of the Corner of my Eye
A bit of spooky whimsy as my response to Sue Vincent – Daily Echo Thursday photo prompt – Glimpsed – #writephoto Out of the corner of my eye Shadows moved My breath froze Three figures rose Beyond the window Or were they trapped In ancient glass Through which spirits Cannot pass The foggy forms Like drifting […]
Lost to the Sea
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt # 56: The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers It was once a flourishing coastal resort Mentioned in the Domesday survey, With a toll on every fishing boat That washed its nets within the village boundary. Never a stranger to North Sea outrages, The village crept […]
Weeping Willow
My response to Carpe Diem #1028 sadness Today’s inspiration quote: “Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” Khalil Gibran below the willow can’t imagine tomorrow drowning in sorrow © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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