A dewy forest of moons,a multitude of mushrooms,soaks in the weight of dawn. It’s snowing spore confetti,cheerful colour splashes:crimson, ochre, cream and rust. Puffballs and parasols,ink caps and champignons,frilly-gilled and plump of flesh, a festival of fungi sprouting earthy fresh. Kim M. Russell, 9th February 2021 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Let’s have […]
Tag: Mushrooms
Dewy Mushrooms
mushrooms not yet that many days of autumn dew a forest of ashen moons sprouting from the earthy mulch pine mushroom with its ragged top it’s like a pine tree snowy spores a prediction early sprinkling of winter glistening dew not spilling from bush clover still it sways the watery weight of dawn in a […]
Shasei
mushrooms sprouting from rain-soaked tree stumps a poor man’s feast Kim M. Russell, 24th October 2018 My response to Carpe Diem #1528 Shasei S is for shasei, a haiku writing technique invented by Masaoka Shiki. Chèvrefeuille tells us that Shiki’s term, shasei, means sketch from life and the poetic principle is ‘to depict the thing […]
Flourish
Sun breaks skin on frozen pond, shattering milky puddles; grass glints like glass as spring mushrooms through forest floor, greeting a beetle with a thaw. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image: pixabay.com My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Saturday Mix — Lorraine 18.02.17 In Lorraine’s edition of Saturday mix – a mélange of flash prose and poetry – we […]
One last poem for Sunday evening
Mushroom Hunting It’s almost fungus season When mushroom hunters foray In lonely fields and woodland Hoping to spot their prey Foraging for champignons Puffballs and parasols Avoiding death and ink caps Sickeners and false morels Every fungus is unique In colour and in form Some robust, others delicate In shades of ochre, rust and cream […]
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