How strange is the change from those heavy gunmetal days that fall in the cracks between Christmas and New Year? How sweet the shift of chord from minor to major as mornings become lighter strewn with white and purple crocuses and a blackbird’s song! Kim M. Russell, 14th January 2019 My response to dVerse Poets […]
Tag: Change
No Cinderella
I don’t need to change into a princess or a pumpkin, a glass slipper or a mouse. Poetry does that with its ins and outs of words and rhymes, the ups and downs of stanzas and lines. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Change Paul is our host today […]
Sea Change
My response to the secret keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #46 Squally day hurries threat of rain, gone blurry out to sea: she’s pretending not to care as it tugs her hair. Left behind in the damp, dun sand, his footprints, just a hint, residue of times they shared, wedding vows declared. The tracks […]
Birdsong Choka
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – July 16, 2016. Bastet has asked us to write our reflections about change either by using a Choka (formed by writing any number of 5/7 syllable couplets and ending the poem with an extra seven-syllable line) or a Shadorma (a non-rhyming six-line poem of 3/5/3/3/7/5 syllables) or perhaps a Shadorma variation. We should choose […]
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