They sweep the silvered clouds,wheeling and tumbling, a pair of stringless red kites,red-brown in an immense sky. Their yellow beaks and snow-white under-wings flash with afternoon sun, red-brown tail forks scything azureand pale yellow eyes scanning for easy preydarting through red-brown bracken. Kim M. Russell, 18th September 2025 This Thursday at the dVerse Poets Pub we […]
Tag: Imagism
Remember November
autumn storms reveal the playfulness of corvids buffeted black shapes bare auburn branches outlines against a gnarled sky the cawing of crows Kim M. Russell, 18th June 2020 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: Imagism Revisited This Thursday, Frank T invites us to delve into the poetic craft of imagery, which involves […]
Vacant Birdhouse
My response to dVerse Meeting the Bar: Critique and Craft poetry prompt. I used this image to inspire a poem I posted back in October and have used the original poem as a springboard into Imagism. The vacancy of a weather-bleached birdhouse hanging low from the gnarled branch of an aged apple tree is […]