The old moon has crumbled Into stars There is nothing left To hold the sky together I watch it from behind my hands Feel my bones strain Under the weight of it all Waiting for the mountains Of the moon to fall Soaking up the darkness And the light Steadfast in the silence Of the […]
Tag: Night
Preparing for a Winter’s Night
After a winter of incessant rain, Fields have turned into floodplains; The village cricket pitch impersonates a lake In which bedraggled crows leave gulls in their wake. The weather has turned cold; An icy wind has taken hold, Stinging cheeks and numbing fingers. Slipping slowly, the weak sun lingers. Into a diluted sunset, birds take […]
A haiku to start the week
Night Sounds Sizzling of white noise And gentle groans of the house – There is no silence © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Owl Music
An owl crooned me to sleep From the silver birch At the end of the garden A haunting song No doubt a hunting song That echoed in my dreams Took me flying In the night shadows Through tall willows Skimming the river Where stars shiver Voles and mice scatter And night birds chatter All on […]
Night Approaches
Barren hills and railway tracks Unite isolated villages Threatened by the cold hand of winter, Bare branches overhead, Leaves rustle underfoot. Night approaches in a fleecy cloak of fog, Dragging a foot in a slow limp, A dissenting glare From under a black felt hat, Passes without pausing And melts into the fading light. […]
Writing Poetry in the Night Sky
An enormous sky Perfect for writing poems Haikus and tankas Punctuated with bright stars The moon a big fat full stop © Kim M. Russell, 2015
A re-worked version of…
‘Nightmare Poem’, first posted on 13th August. Shouting Rhymes After a night of haunting and relentless dreams of fully-formed poems, I am wired. Caged in ribs, heart flutters like a bird anxious to break free from captive night. Hands ache from wringing bed-sheets of words; mouth dry from shouting rhymes nobody heard. In the early […]
Last Night – a poem developed from some old haikus
Last Night Last night I watched Frayed threads of the horizon Unravel into dusk On a mission To stitch up night’s shadows Into a black velvet backdrop For an embrace Two moons face to face In between our lips An empty space Waiting to be filled By a kiss Image found on pics-about.space This is the […]
Another cat poem
Soul Cat In stirring shadows burn two topaz lights Expressive orbs that flicker in the night A velvet nose that twitches at each sound And silken paws that move along the ground Her body flexes with a quiet poise She leaps upon the bed without a noise The tip of her tail flicks against my […]
Back home to an empty house and another rejection
I got off the train from London last night and discovered that it had been raining again – it had been dry in London! I spent Friday night with my daughter. We had a delicious Moroccan meal with one of my oldest friends; we’ve known each other since we were eleven years old and it was wonderful […]
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