Oh, onion moon! I peel back Your parchment tunic, Reveal the icy light within, Slice psychic knife Into your skin, Penetrate your inner sphere, Your scales and layers Silvery clear, Breathe pungent perfume Of your bitter juice And pray to you: Illume My dreams Oh, onion moon! © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found […]
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Heart-seeking Missile
She crossed empty bridges, Climbed buildings And mountainous ridges That were nothing but smoke, Searched in clouds, mist and fog, Holding tightly to the rope Of her romantic hope, A bobbing carnival balloon, A faded yellow harvest moon, Forsaking her art, A missile seeking a heart. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Collage created by […]
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 […]
Cat Cravings
Craving warmth Of fine feline fur, Amber eyes, Heart-shaped nose; Skittish kitten or cool cat Purring in my lap. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt #58: Constant Craving by kd lang Our host, a darkened house, wants to know about our constant cravings.
Final Flare
Autumn colours creep like fire: Smoky tendrils of fog and mist Blanket crackling fields of stubble and stalk, Where charred migrating birds begin to flock; Embers of fruit glow in tree and hedgerow; One by one, leaves burst into flame, Raging with rubicund and golden conflagration; A final flare before winter, that bitter Vampire, leaches […]
Waiting for Autumn
The branches of apple trees are weighted with apples. Plums and quinces litter the ground and brambles are adorned with blackberries, all at different stages of ripeness: emerald, ruby and obsidian. There’s a squirrel foraging in the shade of the willow tree; it hops a short way, its tail an unfurled flag, and then stops […]
Painting a Smile on the Moon
In the smeared window appears a sad silver face tangled in tendrils of willow, staring down from space through a veil of mist and cosmic dust. She rises ghostly, a pale apple in a tree, daring me to take up my brush, to paint a blush upon her cheek, a smile upon her mouth, to […]
Tangible Ghost
This rigid, ghostly stump is tangible. It is no longer quick and malleable, Green and thriving, satin wood. Drained of viscous lifeblood, Bare branches, angular and cleft, And coarse bark, bristly and bereft, Are a prickly pumice for cows and sheep. The lightning tree can no longer weep Feverish, waxy tears into sodden earth To […]
Song of the Grasshopper
grasshopper in cropped copper fields calls to clouds sings to storms above whispered promises wind in the stubble © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond: Twelfth Song – August 27, 2016. Welcome back to Paloma, who has given us a Navajo ceremonial chant and song lyrics by Rich Mullins […]
Different Dreams
I used to dream Of being someone else, not me. I used to dream Of swimming up and not downstream, A beauty in my fantasy, Wealthy and famous, not like me. I used to dream. Now I am me, Contented now, life is brighter. Now I am me: Older, experienced and free, A wife, […]
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