My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille- Forest summer breeze stirs trees rippling lilies in a pool crystal reflection © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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My thoughts and questions about blogging.
New Soil
Driving back from this morning’s Bounce and Rhyme session at the local library, I passed a field in the process of being ploughed, which inspired this poem. feathery flock a splash of white g u l l s CRASH of wing waves against rich brown earth churned and cr um bl ing studded with […]
On First Seeing ‘Praying Hands’ by Dürer
When I first saw those honest hands, the bones and veins, the cross-hatched lines, fingertips together, gently clasped in prayer, captured in ink, I think I began to understand spirituality. Oh, to draw such a hand! © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Shakespeare’s Hands
A sonnet as my first, slightly whimsical, response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Can You Give Me a Hand? The young man’s hands were slender, quick and strong, Composing sonnets to his unknown muse, Creating worlds in drama and in song To challenge the emotions and amuse. The busy writer’s hands were stained with […]
Nobody Sees
My response to Carpe Diem Special #202 Basho’s Disciples: Shiba Sonome’s “nobody sees” there are many shades of green in the countryside invisible hues © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Squaring the Circle
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #73 pi-ku another nice poetry form (reprise) ratio of circumference to the diameter irrational and transcendental © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Night Mare on the Moor
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #104 On a desolate windswept dreamscape of granite and peat, muted moss blends into bracken beaten into submission by wuthering winds. Overhead, turbulent watercolours of a nightmare gather in the sky. Scratched by a pair of ravens’ gravelly tones, the sleepwalker stirs in a tangle of burs […]
The Owl and the Moon
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #9 – moon Owls are truly mesmerising birds, with their moon-round eyes, sharp beaks and talons. Some are beautiful while others are comical; all are fierce hunters, skimming the ground silently to swoop on their prey. I rarely see the owls haunting the silver birch trees that […]
Blood Orange Sky
My response to Carpe Diem #939 Old Pond – sense switching stain of blood orange seeps across the evening sky dripping juiciness © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Early Morning Words
After reading Jane Dougherty’s pearl of a poem this morning, I thought I’d give a circular poem a try as my response to the Secret Keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #28! Arriving on winter’s tail feathers, Weather’s cool but sunny; Funny how the sun seems so bright. Light mornings draw me from my sleep; Deep dreams […]
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