On a moist and mizzling day, my skin is pearled with gossamer mist, eyes wide with the expanse of grey above me, dotted with a scattering of distant birds. There is only emptiness and portents of winter in the yawning sky, and the days seem filled with loneliness. But when evening comes and the cloud […]
Tag: Hope
Hope
while leaves are falling hope flows in a fresh young shoot surprised by late sun Kim M. Russell, 8th October 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1517 Hope (Imagination) This month all of the Carpe Diem prompts follow the letters of the alphabet and today we have the letter H. The challenge is an imagination […]
Hope
Hope is a drop of water in the midst of drought; a small boat without oars but plenty of room if we squeeze together; footprints in the dust that lead to somewhere safe; a kind hand and an honest smile on a stranger’s face. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Quadrille: Hope […]
A Poet’s Hope
My response to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (4) Latifa Prayer “I hope” children of the stars living on Earth, poets hope for an astral muse © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Winter Wreckage
The wreckage of winter has left the landscape rolling gently yet strangely bare shivering in the frigid air where rags of mist and cloud drip tears on branch and bark of naked, twisted trees that turn their backs on the chilly breeze snow and ice have left their mark and streams and rivers full to the […]
Love and Hope
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #69 An Essay About Real Love – this chain of haiku describes the scene at the bottom of my garden In the wild garden innocent snowdrops embrace a wizened plum tree a wizened plum tree raises blossomless branches snowdrops at its roots snowdrops at its roots give […]
writing in north norfolk 