My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille May 4th 2016 kishadoo no ichidan takaki fuyuta kana Winter rice fields– railroad tracks running a level above them © Shiki children play in fields below leaving tracks across the […]
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Fistful of Flowers
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #111 Anna O. Photography he loves me he loves me not each petal a piece of her heart each flower another day apart a fistful of flowers and she’s bleeding a bitter bouquet © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Witness to a Street Fight
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #107 Enticed through the dark hole To the dead-end of violence, Under sulphurous yellow lamplight, You stand on the edge of a vitriolic fight: A crooked, cryptic vision, A lead and skull collision, A crashing kuebiko Deep in your greasy marrow- Bone – you know You shouldn’t witness Such […]
Passing By
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #157 “Collage 22” They met in the bloom of youth: No time for love, no time for truth, Which they kept hidden Along with their hearts. They met again, from time to time, Travelling apart But always bumping into each other, Searching for something In the coolness of […]
Wild Ponies
I used words and phrases from an old poem to write a response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – wild ponies toss of mane gallop with the wind nostrils snort spirit’s caught hooves pounding into the space between water and heaven © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Body Talk
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #40 “I Like You So Much Better..” by Ida Maria Why let words get stuck Somewhere between us When eyes, hands and bodies talk. If you’re an artist, Splash them in paint or smear them in chalk. As a dancer, Express them in the way you walk. As a […]
New Arrival
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #63 – Arrival You fell into my world in a lather of mucus and blood, tiny and voraciously hungry, latching to me, a wrinkled alien, ready to grow into your skin. You were tethered by the umbilical cord, not yet ready for your first spacewalk; That came a […]
Chess and Lark Song
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – a game of chess This week we are writing a haibun, prose and poetry together, in which we have to use a haiku written by Chèvrefeuille, which he wrote several weeks ago in response to a photo challenge set by MLMM: a photo of an outdoor […]
The Murdered Lover
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #110 Image by Mira Nedyalkova She floats, cloudy chiffon-shrouded corpse Among the waterlilies, a damsel fly, Once distressed but now at peace. She sinks, buoyant bubble-buffeted body, Among the frog spawn burbling by, Once captured but now released. She lies, leaden lady of the lake, Mud-filled mouth and […]
Alphabet Soup
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Bonus Wordle “Alphabet Soup” Trees performing arabesques Raise their branches, a complex Latticework, a deadfall Trapping clouds and stars In error, collecting drops in reservoirs, Dripping foliage all awash, Silhouettes in a lightning flash. Their trunks are gnarled With bark like gristle, Their knots are hard, Their twigs like bristles That […]
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