My response to Carpe Diem #959 rain / raindrops rain drops slide down leaves drains and gutters overflow slaking thirsty plants © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tag: Blogging
My thoughts and questions about blogging.
Rising Lotus Flower
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; 4 watch birth and death a lotus flower rises from a murky pond opens clean and pure © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Sweetness of Nature
My haibun in response to Carpe Diem Special #207 Sara McNulty’s third “taste of nature” The trellis is already straining under a mass of tangled honeysuckle bines, dotted with pink buds and one or two early flowers. This particular plant blooms twice: once in spring and again in the summer. It grows beside a mature […]
Tara
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Folk talk Not long after I moved to Ireland in 1980, when my daughter was born, we lived near the Hill of Tara in County Meath. I always thought she was a changeling! Running up the Hill of Tara Sentinel over the River Boyne, Ancient seat Of the kings […]
Final Moments
I deconstructed a poem I posted in March to create a haiku in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille dark handfuls of earth final moments like kisses melt into mourning © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on oppressedpeoplesonlineword.ning.com
Flaming into Autumn
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; (3) ginkgo leaves are falling ancient gingko tree cooling green fans of summer flame into autumn © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Images found on en.wikipedia.org
Savannah Clouds
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #76 Celestine, our “runner-up” of the “time”-kukai in the spotlight – afriku wind shifts at midday clouds above the savannah squeeze first drops of rain © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Take me to Torcello
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #109 Take me to Torcello Past the gondolas on the Grand Canal, Across the shimmering lagoon, Sparkling glass of Murano And the colours of Burano To the gentle chirp of crickets And the ruins of Torcello, Where we spent the day one summer Drinking limoncello And soaking […]
Twisted
My response to the dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 7 – Twist Stomach knots like ivy bound around twisted branches of a gnarled tree. Hands like ropes strangle entangle twisted fingers of despair. Hard teeth like stone gnaw elastic rubber lips twisting meaningless moans. Passion like Eden’s snake screws what was true into paroxysms of […]
Yielding to Plum Blossom
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; 2: plum flower temple expectant snowdrops at the feet of the plum tree yield to new blossoms © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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