rhythmic tick constantly turning hands time stands still Kim M. Russell 7th July 2020 My response to Carpe Diem Exploring The Beauty Of Haiku #1827 Paradox Throughout July, we are exploring the beauty of haiku, and today’s episode begins with a quote from Plato to illustrate what paradox is: “I am the wisest man alive, […]
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Tightropes and Stilts Revisited
The long and precarious tightrope walk stopped when I left the big top of teaching. Now I walk on creative stilts, sometimes teetering, sometimes tumbling into a safety net of words and rhyme. I don’t worry because I have the time. Kim M. Russell, 17th January 2019 My response to Poets United Midweek Motif ~ […]
Paradox of Absolutes
How can we grasp reality without images and parables? We live by laws of nature and sing our hymns of praise; reach for heaven and find infinity and flux, children fishing for stars in oceans. Like stars we return to dust, guide others to join up the dots, to understand the paradox between belief and […]
Paradox
My response to Carpe Diem #936 Forest man-made piano ebony and ivory music of nature © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on footage.framepool.com
American Paradox
Those lovely people over at Visual Verse have included my poem on page 89 of their anthology of poetry about the Grant Wood painting American Gothic. Here’s a link:http://visualverse.org/images/grant-wood/