My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #117 and dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille 11 As a token Of the gardener’s growing love He presented his sweetheart With a single Blushing pink hydrangea bloom Her disappointment Spilled into the room Acid words dripped From her petal lips And the perfect globe Underwent a sea change And […]
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Mother’s Warning
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #113 “June 13th, 2016” In an ocean of dust And human detritus, Slithery silverfish gather In bathroom bacchanalia, Feasting on rancid remnants of mascara, Flakes of torn-off toilet tissue and wallpaper. As I heave and fumble, My face translucent At the sickening sight, I recall an element Of cliché In […]
Cardinal Dreams
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #163 “Collage 25” Picture of Sign Credit: Ray Flanagen The quote “Sometimes, all you can do is lie in bed, and hope to fall asleep before you fall apart.” William C. Hannah He dreamed he was a prince Untangling briars In a fairy-tale wasteland, Breaking through To a vertiginous Precipice […]
Stone and Bone
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #46: “What’s Left of the Flag” by Flogging Molly Crossing the borders of sanity Into lands unknown, Losing hope of humanity, Braving the future alone. Bearing the flag of freedom, Tattered and wind-blown; Grasping at remnants of reason In a handful of stone and bone. Craving for crumbs […]
Living Ghosts
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #71 June 9 – Behind Closed Doors Terrors of the terrace Living ghosts Creep up the ginnel Up and down the back yards In and out of gates Looking in windows Tapping on doors Listening Watching Haunting © 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 […]
Demented Forest
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #116 She felt herself shrinking In a forest of demented trees Monochrome like barcodes From a neurodegenerative disease. She felt a rage erupting That mutated into delusion, Dived deep into strange faces, Emerging in confusion. She couldn’t remember the way Along paths she’d often trod But familiar walks […]
Descent from a Night Flight
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #112 Through massive saurian eyes We gaze down the night From elevated height At civilisation below Leaking pearls of light. Turning heads As it dips its wings, We are offline, suspended, Apart from things That can only happen down below, Entelechy tells us so, As do the legible instructions […]
A Victorian Vignette
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #110 With her flushed neck and face, She is a damask rose Entwined by tendrils of waist-length hair. She gasps, moonstruck at the care And flawless delicacy of the vignette, The frontispiece of a book she hasn’t read yet: Poetry that will melt her with metaphors, Set alight a […]
Death’s Dominion (found)
My reponse to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt: Tarot: Major Arcana: Death For this prompt I have used Dylan Thomas’s poem ‘And death shall have no dominion’ as the material for a found poem. Death’s dominion is the naked dead; He places stars at foot and head And picks their bones to use again, Giving hope […]
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