She takes so much trouble With her stardust and her bubbles, Stirring pollen and feathers, Boiling them together With hints and dark suggestions: To magnetise emotions Into marital devotions While she remains alone, Stirring her copper cauldron. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #193 “Collage 35”
Tag: Collage
The World Within
Like those painted Russian dolls, They organised her World within a world. Living out of suitcases, Tended like a hot–house orchid, Feeling like a caged bird, Everything was planned. She lived through music, The only language Everyone can understand, And danced late at night In her hotel room to her favourite Rock and roll band. […]
Rhyming with Dr Seuss
Think left and right And low and high, Alice is making a lemon pie; She’d better not make a mess, She’s wearing her best frilly dress. Think right and left And high and low, Follow the flight path of the crow To the door of the pear-shaped house For afternoon tea with a harvest mouse. […]
Falsely Yours
naïve and pretty young girl in a floral dress shrinks from your caress bright squares of sunlight making patterns on the floor but no open door a caged bird of prey falsely yours until she flies into a clear sky held by silver chains the trappings of wealth and fame it’s only […]
Some of my Mother is Missing
Lost slippers and kittens, Long ago days on a windy beach, The china owl you gave her, All are out of reach. The smile you remember is missing, A fading smear on her lips; The touch of the hand you are holding Is a mere brush of her fingertips. The photographs that you show her […]
I Miss You
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #173 “Collage 28” Together, they inhaled autumn: Decomposing leaves, Wet fox in undergrowth, Brambles snagging sleeves, Following fallen acorns until the sun broke through. He found a perfect russet Leaf for her to press, Alleviate her distress At his leaving. She pumped into his suitcase A cloud of her […]
Normal is an Illusion
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #171 “Collage 27” “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly” is a quote from Charles Addams On the wings of a summer buzz, a fly alights on a white corona, wrapped in the acrid aroma of Queen Anne’s lace. The sun […]
Weary of my Wisdom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #167 “Collage Special Edition” “I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey.” Is a quote from Nietzsche. Collage by Laura Bloomsbury be sure to stop by her blog! The signpost said there were One and a half miles still to go But […]
We Are Stardust
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #165 “Collage 26” Life is full of shaggy dog stories, Like the ones told by drifters As you walk along the railway track Or the yarn the baby-sitter Spun about a haunted shack. That summer in the lonely garden With the ocean’s breathy chill, You were visited by a […]
Cardinal Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #163 “Collage 25” Picture of Sign Credit: Ray Flanagen The quote “Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” William C. Hannah He dreamed he was a prince Untangling briars In a fairy-tale wasteland, Breaking through To a vertiginous Precipice […]
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