in the kind garden honeysuckle blooms each spring the goldfinch returns Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love For this year’s Summer Retreat, Chèvrefeuille has chosen the theme ‘(unconditonal) love’. The retreat will last for a period of 30 days and the goal is to create haiku or […]
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Unconditional Love Day 3
touch of loving hand fingertips and warm caress goodbye winter chill Kim M. Russell, 2017 Caressing Hands by George Segal – image found on all-art.org My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love For this year’s Summer Retreat, Chèvrefeuille has chosen the theme ‘(unconditonal) love’. The retreat will last for a period of 30 […]
Unconditional Love Day 2
unconditional the warmth of a purring cat love curled in my lap Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love For this year’s Summer Retreat, Chèvrefeuille has chosen the theme ‘(unconditional) love’. The retreat will last for a period of 30 days and the goal is to create haiku […]
Unconditional Love Day 1
unconditional no ring around a finger haiku of the heart Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Carpe Diem Summer Retreat 2017 (unconditional) love Introduction For this year’s Summer Retreat, Chèvrefeuille has chosen the theme ‘(unconditional) love’. The retreat starts today and will last for a period of 30 days, in which the goal is […]
Modern Love
Passion blooms, flashover of heliotrope, innocent iridescence of hope. Unlatched in modern media, Facebook likes, Snapchat, text and tweet, they are inseparable. No shy ballet, linking arms, touching legs under a table or harmony of kisses at a station: long distance heat. One click to levitate above a situation that gets too hot. Kim M. […]
Selfish Love
selfish love, yearning for the moon to fall down in my arms, illumine my lonely face for just once moment © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – September 3, 2016 I was a child in the 60s and remember Rod McKuen. I loved […]
Unconditional
Redoubtable you, with your firm beliefs and arguments, your sensitive soul is written in my universe, intoned in my music, woven into the fabric of everything. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Silent Love
I wrote this poem for the Poetry Society’s Stanza Poetry Competition and then remembered that I’m not a Stanza member – so I thought I’d share it with you on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform. She sang her love into a bell-jar And replaced the robust dumbing bung, Observing the golden silence Of […]
Love and Preparation
My reponse to Carpe Diem Theme Week #4 (7 ): Latifa Prayer lines 6 & 7: “I love” and “I am prepared” For the ‘I love’ prompt, I have chosen a tanka I posted in February: Once an innocent, delicate, blossoming bud, love suddenly comes alive, exploding like an atom expanding our universe. Lotus […]
A Mother’s Love
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – Madrigal This week Bastet has treated us to a mini history of Italian poetry and introduced us to the Italian madrigal, a pastoral or love song written in lines of seven or eleven syllables and consisting of two or three tercets followed by one or […]
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