It starts with an ephemeral puff of delicate seed-heads in a child’s hand, waiting for the wind, hitchhikers free to take sunshine wherever they land. A dandelion may start life as a fragile seed, a tickle in a downy clock a drifter on a breeze, but it can crumble paving stones and rock and, before […]
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Dandelion Dream
a dandelion now and then interrupting the butterfly’s dream Chiyo-Ni tickle of a downy clock early morning wake-up call Kim M. Russell, 3rd May 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1656 Tan Renga Challenge May 2019 (3) Dandelion and […]
Capricious May
May is capricious, the garden is luscious, bathed in soft sun, daisy and dandelion- spattered. Sky turns bruised plum, sweetly congeals cloud jam, a chiff-chaff’s half-hearted call warning of imminent rainfall. Warning of imminent rainfall, a chiff-chaff’s half-hearted call sweetly congeals cloud jam. Sky turns bruised plum, spattered daisy and dandelion bathed in soft sun, […]
A Glint of Sunshine
Stark winter branches relinquish their last few strips of faded foliage. They twirl, fall and slip between misty mornings and afternoons, land in muddy folds of rotten detritus and sodden grass, where a ragged dandelion beams among the grey and green. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Writing Exercise […]
Millionaire
nature’s lottery a dandelion’s golden face in a field of weeds Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem #1267 millionaire The prompt for today points comes from a haiku by Yosa Buson (1716-1784): enjoying three bowls of Zoni * at the New Year’s breakfast millionaire as he is! (c) Yosa Buson * ‘Zoni’ […]
Dandelion – May Tan Renga
dandelion dandelion on the sandy beach spring opens its eyes © Ogiwara Seisensui a crowd of golden faces woken by powerful tides Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #12 dandelion, dandelion (Ogiwara Seisensui) Today ‘s ‘hokku’ is from another lesser known classical haiku poet who was […]
Yellow Silence
a dandelion’s yellow silence radiates in a field of green © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille, November 16th 2016 find the silence and shared on Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence In a new week of Heeding Haiku…, Chèvrefeuillewould like us to write a […]
Dandelion Sunshine
My response to Carpe Diem #1012 Sunshine “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” Hans Christian Andersen a dandelion has freedom to take sunshine wherever it grows © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Blowing Dandelions
My haiku in response to Carpe Diem #929 wind bag chattering children blow on dandelion clocks seeds drift on the wind © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Dandelions
A poem for children Little beaming suns Suddenly appear In lawns and meadows. Butterflies feed On the nectar of their yellow. As fluffy seed clocks, Children help them on their way, Telling time of day, As does the wind, Floating parachutes of seed Far and wide. In autumn, Their toothy leaves go unseen And […]
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