My response to Carpe Diem #1005 Heather sweet smell of thistles, bees hum and the wind whistles in a sea of heather permeating hill and heath with its fragrant honeyed breath © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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Tightropes and Stilts
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Play It Again, Toads Words Count with Mama Zen: Is your life a circus? If so, which circus performer are you? Tell me about your act . . . in 90 words or less. The long and precarious Tightrope walk Stopped When I left the big […]
A Curtailed Summer
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #169 “Collage Special Edition” That year of our childhood, We picked berries, Squeezed their shiny plumpness Until their blood ran red. Intoxicated by the bitter sweetness And our summer freedom, We tottered down to the mill pond And clambered on the abandoned Lichen-stained waterwheel, Anchored in a snarl […]
Swimming in the Red Lake
My response to Elusive Trope’s Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge I heave my lazy head from shadow of whispering water, swim in gorgeous red smear of sweet honey light on delirious lake, skin cool as a rose petal symphony. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.flickr.com
Pleiades
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year Celebration Part Five; Revisiting Anthony Desmond Gayle is hosting the 5th part and last day of the special 5th anniversary celebration, starting with an interview with Anthony Desmond, including his poem ‘When Everything Real is Gone’ as a prompt to reflect and write on a belief (or what […]
Voice
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – July 23, 2016. Candy has given us an example of a poem by Billy Collins to inspire us to create a Shadorma: Carry I want to carry you and for you to carry me the way voices are said to carry over water. Just this morning on […]
Gorse and Kisses
My response to Carpe Diem #1004 Gorse on a late spring walk heathland is ablaze with gorse and lovers’ kisses © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.rspb.org.uk
Leaf Lightshows
My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge #108 the open window screened with a web leaf shadows (Jane Reichhold) choreograph golden rays in early morning lightshows (Kim M. Russell) Image found […]
Woman of the Page
A sonnet to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt #52: Virginia Woolf, Indigo Girls You were weak of body but strong of mind, At four a bookworm, a precocious child, Your father’s little Poet Laureate, Who became addicted to opiates. Illness and loss almost drove you insane, Laudanum and […]
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