My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #103 In the shadows, I await The creaking of the garden gate, With my tendency to hallucinate In my isolophilia. The scalding sunlight makes me sick, Bubbles my skin like vinyl mosaic, But my passionless life will be over quick In my isolophilia. And then, in the […]
Tag: Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie
Invisible London
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – ABC Poem Against the constant Backing track of traffic, Common sounds of the city Drum in an Ever-present hum. Fixed in the haloes of street lights, Glimpses of passing faces, Hurrying home; In shop windows and shattered bus-stop glass, Jazzy Kaleidoscope of Lights. Morning […]
Sunday Shoes
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #35 “Caroline” Performed by Old Crow Medicine Show Your voice is shining Like your patent Sunday shoes Velvet voice floating As you dance and sing the blues Tap and flash those Sunday shoes © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.fashiondetective.co.uk
Norwich Peregrine Falcons
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weavers 58: Vernal Equinox and linking up to Jacqui’s Echoes of my Neighbourhood over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. A blue-grey blur Against stone walls Wide wings whirr Haunting falcons call A flash of white breast Buffeted higher To their nest On the cathedral’s spire © Kim M. […]
Magnificent Magnolia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – spring buds like rabbits’ tails silky casings split and fall littering the grass reveal spring-time crush of magnificent flowers with their creamy blush © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Mightier than the Sword
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #105 The Lady of the Lake Has relinquished Excalibur, Released Merlin And taken up the pen. Her rhymes are regal, Metre magical; Poetry of romance, love and death Blown across the lake on misty breath. The Lady of the Lake does not mince words, Now that she […]
The Blatherskite
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #102 Don’t listen to the blatherskite; He’ll only keep you up all night, Drinking drams of addictive nostrum, Spouting ephemera from a rostrum Commonly known as the public bar; Listening will not get you far. His tirades are always episodic, He spews forth views on any topic; Be very […]
Monsters
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #151 “Collage 19” ‘We stopped checking for monsters under the bed when we realized they were inside of us.’ Charles Darwin. We stopped checking for monsters under the bed, the sandman, and the bogeyman in the closet, and searched elsewhere for our thrills instead: ghost hunting in abandoned […]
Seeking Clarity
A found poem in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma & Beyond – Indigo Girls ‘Closer to Fine’ shadorma Sailed my ship in a crooked line I sank it trying to take life less seriously seeking clarity © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
Dark Satellite
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #34 “Love Me Like You Do” by Ellie Goulding. It’s not my taste in music, but I was happy to take some of the lyrics and twist them into something more death metal! Night’s blood Is a painful cure For love Dark satellite of a world that’s dead […]