Hooray!

I am so excited. One of my short stories, ‘Ghost Writer’, has won The Word Hut 19th Writing Competition! They said: ‘We thoroughly enjoyed your story and it worked successfully on a number of different levels in addition to being well written.’ I can only say that I am HAPPY!

Courtesan

 I reworked ‘Floating’, a poem I posted on 4th November 2015,  into two haiku as a response to Carpe Diem Special #196 Hamish Gunn’s 2nd “on the street corner”   gift-wrapped courtesan gorgeous ikebana bloom inscrutable face   world of the teahouse floating on tides of pleasure artifice and art   © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]

Return of the Woodpecker

I am waiting For the sound Of the woodpecker Drumming on the trunk Of the tallest silver birch Adding to the rhythm of the morning Playing hide and seek Flashing its vivid colours Among the branches Stark and scrawny Against the sky   © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.rspb.org.uk Male great spotted woodpecker on a […]