My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar – Form: Tanka Toni is our host this evening and we are exploring the Tanka. I have three to share: the first is one I wrote earlier this year and the second and third have been reworked. rising fragrant steam hovers above the tea cup waiting for […]
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My thoughts and questions about blogging.
Persephone and the Pomegranate
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #81 /Fairy Tale August 18 – Magic Fruit Daughter of the goddess Of fertility and harvest, Persephone had a beauty so rare That Hades was enraptured; He craved her for his wife And had her captured, Condemned to a life In the Underworld, With nothing to drink or […]
Phototropism
My response to Carpe Diem #1027 movement Today’s inspirational quote is from Chèvrefeuille himself: “Haiku is the poetry of nature and nature is always in motion. Seasons come and go, the moon changes every 28 days and so on, the only thing which is steady and without clear motion is our sun, that big star […]
Satnav
This is the first poem I have written following an exercise from The Poetry School in moving from the abstract to the concrete. See if you can work out which abstract noun it is about! I’m linking it to Imaginary Garden with Real Taods’ Tuesday Platform. We follow her instructions, The disembodied female voice Of […]
A Summer Kitten’s Tail
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 17th 2016 … a summer tale This week it is haibun time again, for which Chèvrefeuille has asked us to: follow the classical rules for the haiku; write a maximum of 150 words, including the haiku; and write on the theme of ‘A Summer Tale’. The […]
My Mother’s Smile
My response to Carpe Diem #1026 Smile Today’s inspirational quote is from Mother Teresa (1910-1997): “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” lined and thinned with age the ghost of her smile survives a spark in blue eyes © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The Soundtrack to Your First Embrace
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Sound of Love. This evening Walt has challenged us to explore the SOUND of love. You fold your arms around her With a whisper of wings, Your breath in her ear Like sea in a shell, washing A distant shore and yet so near. Your heart gallops, A […]
Insignificance
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #126 Source: Unknown stony beach of infinity magnifies a human’s insignificance on immeasurable shores © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Mosaic of Beauty
My response to Carpe Diem #1025 beauty Today’s inspirational quote is from Rumi (1207-1273), a 13th-century Persian poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic: “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” […] Rumi kaleidoscopic tesserae of life combine in unique beauty © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image of mosaic portrait of a woman from Pompeii found on http://www.telegraph.co.uk
Nightjar Ventriloquy
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille #14 This Monday Björn has challenged us to write a Quadrille of 44 words that has to include the word ‘jar’. I left ajar the door to evening; Moths gathered around the light That jarred the dusk, Exploding in a cloud of dust, Startled by a sudden churring, […]
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