I am so pleased that a seventh submission has been included in the latest online Visual Verse anthology. At the moment, my poem ‘Surviving the Oil Slick of Sisterhood’ is on page 21: http://visualverse.org
Tag: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
Silent and Soft
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – August 6, 2016 This week Candy has chosen a poem from a book she discovered in a book sale by James Kavanaugh, an American poet, new to me too: Soft And Silent Everything I love is soft and silent, My cat, the morning, the end of […]
In Prospero’s Cave
My response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt – Liminal– #writephoto The sea mounted to the welkin’s cheek And brought a prince called Ferdinand, Shipwrecked and lost on foreign sand, Subject to Prospero’s command, A spirit in Miranda’s eyes: A thing divine. Thoughts of Miranda made labour sweet; She was created of every creature’s best But […]
Unconditional
Redoubtable you, with your firm beliefs and arguments, your sensitive soul is written in my universe, intoned in my music, woven into the fabric of everything. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Once in a Blue Moon (reprise)
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Meeting the Bar: Let’s Kick It Up a Notch This evening, Victoria is our host and has asked us to search our archives, choose a poem and add a little spice to it through the use of sensory description, replacing metaphor, or tightening up the word count. I have reworked […]
Why am I Scared of Sharks?
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: What Are You Afraid Of? This evening Mish has asked us to think about fear. I will never encounter a real shark, although Jaws gave me nightmares, still makes me jump. And living in the countryside, I’m unlikely to meet an aggressive drunk or witness a late […]
Pressing Poetry
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #124, also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform Image by Ronny Garcia Moron “For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.” —Langston Hughes, The Big Sea I press poems to my naked skin; they escape so quickly I must anchor them with pen and […]
My Asymmetry
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille – I am who I am, but tomorrow, who knows? For Monday’s Quadrille (a poem of 44 words: no more, no less – not including the title), Lillian has asked us to create a self-portrait. I look in a mirror and see A transient ischemic face Staring back […]
Natural Jazz
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle Special Addition Sound “August 1st, 2016” In the humidity of a hot damp summer, strident weeds whoosh and rustle as they explode through pavements scratching as they hustle and bustle in dusty verges and vacant parking lots. Percussive and floridly flagrant, rusty dock leaves clash with crackling nettles, echo in […]
Because it is my Heart
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads’ Because It Is My Heart ~ Micro Poetry Because it is my heart It does not drip blood; Instead, a muddle of words Drops into a puddle of mud And, because it is my heart, Not listening to my head, My hands create a homunculus To […]
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