My response to Bastet’s One Month of Haiga ribbons of colour criss-cross dawn’s rosy heaven sun bursts into day © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.nasa.gov
Tag: Haiku
Courtesan
I reworked ‘Floating’, a poem I posted on 4th November 2015, into two haiku as a response to Carpe Diem Special #196 Hamish Gunn’s 2nd “on the street corner” gift-wrapped courtesan gorgeous ikebana bloom inscrutable face world of the teahouse floating on tides of pleasure artifice and art © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image […]
Embers
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #83 Gem&Flame Embers in the grate Gems of fire that flare and flame One last time and die © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on http://www.shutterstock.com Feu De Bois Stock Footage Video – Shutterstock
Yoga Undou
My response to Carpe Diem #912 Movement/Proprioception Tension and release Muscles ripple below skin Yoga pose is born Breathing in and out Music of body and soul Salute to the sun Every breath and move A step to meditation A human temple © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Children of the Cosmos
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #82 Star&Child Counting newborn stars Each a child of the cosmos Sparkling innocence © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on A Nursery for Newborn Stars in the Prawn Nebula – The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com
Dawn’s Shipwreck
My response to Haiku Horizons prompt “sleep” Drifting in slumber Morpheus pulls me under diving into dreams Surfacing from deep altered consciousness of sleep rising sun stirs me Lifting languid lids broken shards of sleep amid dawn’s shipwreck of sheets © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.posterlounge.co.uk
Flying
My response to An Artist at Heart’s MINIATURE WRITING CHALLENGE #27 Childhood Upside down playground Trees turn to sky turn to ground Flying on a swing © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Evensong
My response to RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #81 Trill&Final A trill in twilight Nocturnal robin’s final Song before nightfall © Kim M. Russell, 2016
White Dusted Meadow
My contribution to Carpe Diem Renga Party #2 white dusted meadow each crystal or flake piece of a larger jigsaw covering earth’s green © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Great Cold
My response to Carpe Diem #900 Daikan (Great cold) Every blade of grass Silver white with morning frost Bows to the great cold © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.graniterock.co.uk
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