The Lonely Vampire’s Lament

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]