ink fluidity brush strokes blackness of nothing Zen calligraphy © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.zencalligraphy.com My response to Carpe Diem #1071 brush (zen-calligraphy) Today Chèvrefeuille has presented us with a prompt inspired by the tool that is used the most by the so-called Zen Calligrapher, the brush. The art of calligraphy is an ancient way […]
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Grinding Words with Stone
inky black Incense rises from the grinding stone haiku embryos © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.metmuseum.org My response to Carpe Diem #1070 pen and inkstone This month all the regular prompts are tools used for all kinds of arts and ways of creativity. Today Chèvrefeuille has given us ‘pen and inkstone’, the classical tools of […]
Leafless
bashful branches hide bare behind a shroud of mist cold comfort © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1069 leafless trees This is the last episode of our tribute to Jane month, which concludes with the last modern kigo of winter from Jane’s “A Dictionary of Haiku”. Today ‘leafless trees’ is the prompt, for […]
Lady of the Camellias
pink camellia among muted browns and greens a flounce of petals © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1068 camellia Today’s prompt is camellia and we have a series of haiku from “A Dictionary of Haiku” by Jane Reichhold for inspiration: a camellia floating in our conversation unspoken thoughts curved petals from the camellia-scented candle […]
Setting Poetry Free
page of poetry words are pinned like butterflies until they’re spoken © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1067 poetry reading Today the prompt is ‘reading poetry’. Chèvrefeuille has reminded us that reading haiku is different to the usual way we read poetry as haiku or tanka are […]
The Morning After
steam-rollered by waves whipped up by wuthering wind the beach is uncreased sloping down to kiss the tide in ebb-and-flow afterglow © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1066 beach Chèvrefeuille has chosen a few haiku by Jane Reichhold as examples for today’s prompt: beach: the beach is clean with new driftwood […]
Winter Stars
winter sky pulsates silent dance of silver stars saturnalia © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.gettyimages.com My response to Carpe Diem #1065 stars Chèvrefeuille has reminded us that the tribute to Jane month is almost at an end and that In this last week of September we have only one season to go, winter. […]
Autumn Butterfly
in September sun a brown and gold butterfly hanging from a stem is caught in a swirl of leaves confetti for autumn brides © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.rgbstock.com My response to Carpe Diem #1063 butterfly Today our prompt is butterfly. Butterflies are synonymous with change, metamorphosis, lightness, growth, messengers of the gods and ‘butterfly’ […]
Cascading Waterfall
meltwater trickles patient droplets gathering pregnant waterfall thundering cascade carving out rocks and boulders waterfall sculpture flash of silver scales leaping up the waterfall frenzy of salmon eddies and whirlpools wild dance of fall and river passionate embrace © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Images found on www.yorkshiredales.co.uk and http://www.bbc.co.uk My response to Carpe Diem #1061 waterfall […]
Changing Shifts at Twilight
diffusion of light fleeting in-between moment ambiguous time when daytime birds stop singing owls and nightingales begin I’ve also taken a poem I posted last December and reworked it into a new tanka: the moon is opaque a soft veil – a thin thumbnail a comma in a long day a no time between sunset […]
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