My response to Carpe Diem #993 Ash Ash, tree of healing, Spreads its leafy canopy, heals the lonely soul with bright berries and winged seeds, helicopters in the breeze. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on treegrowersdiary.com
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Willow in the Rain (reprise)
My response to Carpe Diem #992 Willow – I have taken one of the first poems I posted last year, deconstructed it and turned it into a tanka. a bothersome breeze buffets the willow bending with the weight of tears, holding up anaemic clouds above our soggy garden © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Alder
My response to Carpe Diem #991 Alder Adorned with lucent Lichen, its dark bark fissured, Doom and bad luck bloom, Effusive moths and catkins Raining fairy camouflage © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.flowerfairyprints.com
Magical Rowan
My response to Carpe Diem #990 Rowan tree resilient wood, red berries and pentagrams: protective rowan rides shotgun in rocks and trees, makes the witches lose their speed © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Butterfly Ghost
For my response to Carpe Diem CD-special #210 Joyce Lorenson’s 2nd “butterfly wings” I have deconstructed a poem I posted last October into a tanka: Ghostly butterfly, on fragile wings of tissue hangs from a cobweb, work of an eerie artist tied up in gossamer thread. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on […]
Landlocked Luxembourg
My response to Carpe Diem #971 Luxembourg (The Green Heart of Europe) Set in hills and cliffs, landlocked fairy-tale duchy, medieval gem rose from the ashes of war fizzing with fresh Moselle wine. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.dailyemerald.com
Tuscan Lights
My response to Carpe Diem #970 Italy . What a coincidence: I’ve just got back from my daughter’s wedding in Tuscany! Chiusdino’s lights: a twinkling constellation in the evening glow. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Love and Preparation
My reponse to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (7 ): Latifa Prayer lines 6 & 7: “I love” and “I am prepared” For the ‘I love’ prompt, I have chosen a tanka I posted in February: Once an innocent, delicate, blossoming bud, love suddenly comes alive, exploding like an atom expanding our universe. Lotus […]
Trusting the Oak
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (5 & 6): Latifa Prayer lines 4 & 5 “I believe and I trust” & “I let go” green shadows gather in the dome of the old gnarly oak confident in its embrace I watch thunder clouds © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
A Poet’s Hope
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (4) Latifa Prayer “I hope” children of the stars living on Earth, poets hope for an astral muse © Kim M. Russell, 2016
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