tiny blue flowers sparkling in the growing light a patch of sky Kim M. Russell, 22nd August 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1730 Field of Flowers: Freestyle Today we are free to create a freestyle haiku, tanka or other Japanese poetry form inspired by this month’s theme, field of flowers, and there’s no need […]
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Summer Love
Since they were children, they’d ridden their bikes all summer, at first with stabilisers, and their bikes grew with them. This year, hair bleached from the sun and faces full of freckles, they realised their friendship had blossomed. ticking cycle wheels grasshoppers in the long grass strawberry kisses Kim M. Russell, 31st July 2019 My […]
Kanshicho
comfy in bed I listen to the night breeze rustling leaves Kim M. Russell, 11th October 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1520 Kanshicho … in the way of Chinese poetry (free-styling with haiku) I can’t believe we have already reached the letter K f- or Kanshicho, a free-style haiku form that Carpe Diem explored […]
Inkstone
poet’s brush is full black shadows from an inkstone forming words Kim M. Russell, 9th October 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1518 Inkstone and pencil (free style) Chèvrefeuille says that nowadays we have computers, tablets and smart-phones but in Basho’s days they used inkstone and a pencil. He has reminded us of a previous […]
Between Words revisited
the length of a thought in breathless space between words resonates silence Kim M. Russell, 2016 echoing silence in breathless space between words a thought’s duration Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Writing and Enjoying Haiku #4 having fun? This weekend, Chèvrefeuille has brought us a new episode of Writing and Enjoying […]
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