My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #90 Back In Time “Let The Music Inspire You” This week Chèvrefeuille has given us a video to inspire us to create a haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form. The video, created by Paky.D, is of the singer, instrumentalist and pianist Yanni playing ‘Felitsa’, a song he wrote for his mother. […]
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My thoughts and questions about blogging.
Of Slugs and Snails
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 3rd 2016 haibun imagination This week Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to create a haibun with a maximum of 250 words (including the haiku or tanka) inspired by the following image: Snail (photo found here) Part of my childhood, from the age of seven to sixteen, was […]
Why am I Scared of Sharks?
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: What Are You Afraid Of? This evening Mish has asked us to think about fear. I will never encounter a real shark, although Jaws gave me nightmares, still makes me jump. And living in the countryside, I’m unlikely to meet an aggressive drunk or witness a late […]
Pressing Poetry
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #124, also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform Image by Ronny Garcia Moron “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.” —Langston Hughes, The Big Sea I press poems to my naked skin; they escape so quickly I must anchor them with pen and […]
My Asymmetry
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – I am who I am, but tomorrow, who knows? For Monday’s Quadrille (a poem of 44 words: no more, no less – not including the title), Lillian has asked us to create a self-portrait. I look in a mirror and see A transient ischemic face Staring back […]
Dandelion Sunshine
My response to Carpe Diem #1012 Sunshine “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” Hans Christian Andersen a dandelion has freedom to take sunshine wherever it grows © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Natural Jazz
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle Special Addition Sound “August 1st, 2016” In the humidity of a hot damp summer, strident weeds whoosh and rustle as they explode through pavements scratching as they hustle and bustle in dusty verges and vacant parking lots. Percussive and floridly flagrant, rusty dock leaves clash with crackling nettles, echo in […]
Soul Music
My response to Carpe Diem #1011 happiness Chèvrefeuille is inspiring us with a quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” life’s harmonic chords bind happy thoughts, words and deeds: music of the soul © Kim M. Russell, 2016 “Music Combines the Soul […]
Because it is my Heart
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ Because It Is My Heart ~ Micro Poetry Because it is my heart It does not drip blood; Instead, a muddle of words Drops into a puddle of mud And, because it is my heart, Not listening to my head, My hands create a homunculus To […]
Born in Stars
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt July 31st: We Are All Stars Vivid stained glass of evening sky Shatters into infinite shards, Crackling, pulsating, splintered light In a universe of bright stars, Dancing in and out of focus: A poetic hocus-pocus Of wordsmith, imagery and rhyme, Celestial celebration, Heavenly imagination – Poets on earth […]
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