I watch the mist of an autumn morning creep across the fields, shrouding the grey outline of the church and leaving a scattering of dew. In this moment I think of you still chasing dreams like a youthful robin tuning up in preparation for the spring, and me a wood pigeon with my loud and […]
Tag: Depression
Depression
concrete walls close in full of faded grey despair and daytime TV colour peels with the paintwork and withers with the flowers © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem Tanka Splendor #18 depression Chèvrefeuille’s prompt for the day is depression, which he thinks can challenge us to think out of the box. In this […]
The Kindness of Friends
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Choose a Line. This week Mary has asked us to read the poem “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye, choose one of the lines & use it as a line in a newly written poem. I have chosen the line: ‘Notes friends tied to the doorknob’. My […]
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