My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Adventures in travelling Leaning over the side Of the vaporetto Sharp spray cooling Heat pricked arms We watched the boats Sun diamonds on waves Faces in the crowd Tourists and commuters Brash and loud Inhaled the heady mingling Of expensive scent Engine oil Tang of the bay […]
Tag: Blogging
My thoughts and questions about blogging.
Dandelions
A poem for children Little beaming suns Suddenly appear In lawns and meadows. Butterflies feed On the nectar of their yellow. As fluffy seed clocks, Children help them on their way, Telling time of day, As does the wind, Floating parachutes of seed Far and wide. In autumn, Their toothy leaves go unseen And […]
Dragonfly Dance
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #86 Flash&Dance Electric blue flash Shimmer of dragonfly dance In summer garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on todayilearned.co.uk
Flowers
I was planning to bring you flowers But they fade and die You no longer see living plants In a garden Or a park So I brought you something more lasting Unusual A purple tinged succulent In a glass cube Transparent You can see the soil The moss and roots And then I saw the […]
Guards and peacocks
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #8 – journey/travel At sixteen, I had been on just two holidays: one with the school when I was ten, and one with a friend and her family when I was twelve, both to the Isle of Wight. So my first visit to Cologne before moving there […]
Word Rebel
My response to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Word Prompt #26 – this was a tough one! Word rebel In haiku forest Clears the way Word rebel Bans dark confusion Patch of light In haiku forest Pruning green Foliage Clears the way To enlightenment Haiku thrives © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tasseomancy
My response to Carpe Diem #928 Extra-Sensory Perception (and Common Sense) Great Aunt Rose was married to a Romany and learned to read the tea leaves. After her husband died, she lodged in a small room, with a curtain around her bed, like a bed in a gypsy caravan. She had a crystal ball but […]
Kinesthesia of Memories
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #99 She stands at her life’s junction, Kinesthesia in her hand, A heavy suitcase of memories: Frequent beatings, Days when she was famished, Future unknown. Reining in her temerity (Strange luxury – Freedom), she jettisons The past, Exhales her last stale breath, Inhales a fresh one – And […]
Silence
My response to Bastet’s One Month of Haiga and NaHaiWriMo – silence Silence lies between Rhythm, chords and melody Blue of disquiet © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Seascape
I’m hyping myself up for a visit to Mum in the care home today, so I tried escaping to one of my favourite places – the sea. Under mackerel sky Gulls wheel on buffeting wind Waves smash rocks and reefs With a dull rumbling thunder Making the sulphurous air quiver Far as eye can see Wrinkled […]
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