Tag: Heeding Haiku with Chèvrefeuille

Summer Stars

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 10th 2016 For this week’s Heeding Haiku episode the challenge is to create a new haiku inspired by the following: evening sea fog descending into sun-dried grass sweaty lovers                                              © Jane Reichhold This is my tribute to Jane: sparkles of sunshine caught in ripples of swan’s wake […]

Of Slugs and Snails

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 3rd 2016 haibun imagination This week Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to create a haibun with a maximum of 250 words (including the haiku or tanka) inspired by the following image: Snail (photo found here) Part of my childhood, from the age of seven to sixteen, was […]

Impression of the Sea

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 27th 2016 “one with nature” In this episode of Heeding Haiku With … Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to create a haiku while going out into nature, becoming ‘one with nature’ and capturing that moment in ‘an impression in the form of a haiku’, using all of our […]

Pampas Dreams

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 20th 2016 pampasgrass When I was eleven or twelve, my family lived on the top floor of a block of council maisonettes. We shared a balcony with other residents and outside our front door and kitchen window, we had two window boxes. To get to school […]

Peeling away Another Layer

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille July 6th 2016     This week’s challenge is to create a summer haibun with a maximum of 75 words including the haiku (or tanka). It’s July. So far we’ve had mostly rain, so I haven’t worn summer clothes. On hot days, our cottage is usually a welcome […]

Rising with Bubbles

My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille June 29th 2016 Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) This week  Chèvrefeuille has challenged us to create haiku inspired on a quote by the ancient philosopher Confucius: “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”    do not be afraid to dive into the water: rise with the bubbles © Kim M. Russell, 2016  

My Mother’s Hands

 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille Our challenge this week is to take a haiku by a classical haiku poet: First autumn morning the mirror I stare into shows my father’s face. © Murakami Kijo* and then create a haibun with a maximum of 300 words, including our own original haiku.   When […]

Ghosts and Apple Blossom

  My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – immodesty As my own favourite haiku, I have chosen:  Words become poems – ephemeral ghosts as soon as they are spoken. © Kim M. Russell, 2015 My new haiku is:  Ancient apple blooms – fleeting poems on the breeze speak wisdom of trees. © Kim M. […]