My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #43: “Someday We’ll Linger” by Gaelynn Lea We live on earth as humble bards All scribbled lines and wine glass shards Leaving bitter taste, tattoos and scars Of long-lost poems we used to write The ones that kept us up all night That never seemed to turn out right […]
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The Ballad of the Space Diamond
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #66: All that Glitters She had the hardness and glitter Of a diamond But her heart had the softness Of a pearl; Under make-up, jewels and furs She was still a little girl, Not a tigress who growls and then purrs. He had money and a rampant reputation […]
Ghosts and Apple Blossom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – immodesty As my own favourite haiku, I have chosen: Words become poems – ephemeral ghosts as soon as they are spoken. © Kim M. Russell, 2015 My new haiku is: Ancient apple blooms – fleeting poems on the breeze speak wisdom of trees. © Kim M. […]
Travelling Light
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #113 Image by Unknown Sharp in the sunlight, Melted snow Of lingering winter Revealed new growth. In the drifting bark Shifting sounds marked The changing of the season: The clamour of skeins of geese And rooks emitting their phlegmy belches As they built a shanty town In […]
Crisis of Friction
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #109 Born in a cluster of stars, The lonely poet offers Her handwritten score To the universe, Spilling her ink-infused sorrow On limestone edifices: A blurry hierogram of verse And perception, A cultural crisis of friction When her soul-drenched work Is read on a Kindle – She feels thrown […]
Echoes of an Autumn Walk
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #112 and dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday Raindrops from a recent shower release a pungent whiff of mulch from the litter of autumn in various states of decay. In dry patches, below a dense lattice of branches, rusty skeletons crunch underfoot and beetles scuttle, while my boots slip […]
Letting the Genie Out
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #108 Sky is trapped In a crystal flask. Amethyst Bleeds from cracks, Leaches into Earth’s creases, Wearing misty clouds. Drawbacks of Sidereal wish: Duration, Impatience, Furious rubatosis Once the genie’s out. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Suspended
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt: May 8 2016: The Tarot – Major Arcana – The Hanged Man The Hanged Man ©wintersmagic on deviantart Dusty daffodil yellow Has disappeared Along with callow Buds and leaves Overpowered By fluorescent fields Of rapeseed flowers And golden gorse Hints that summer Waits off-stage Waiting for new colours In […]
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 […]
Traffic Lights
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #64: May 5 2016: School Yard Games She knew he was red-light dangerous, The kind of guy her friends warned her about, One to avoid when the lights went out. But red is a colourful aphrodisiac, A silken poppy on a summer’s day. She couldn’t let her bad […]
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