My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Play It Again, Toads Words Count with Mama Zen: Is your life a circus? If so, which circus performer are you? Tell me about your act . . . in 90 words or less. The long and precarious Tightrope walk Stopped When I left the big […]
Tag: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
A Curtailed Summer
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #169 “Collage Special Edition” That year of our childhood, We picked berries, Squeezed their shiny plumpness Until their blood ran red. Intoxicated by the bitter sweetness And our summer freedom, We tottered down to the mill pond And clambered on the abandoned Lichen-stained waterwheel, Anchored in a snarl […]
Swimming in the Red Lake
My response to Elusive Trope’s Magnetic Poetry Saturday Challenge I heave my lazy head from shadow of whispering water, swim in gorgeous red smear of sweet honey light on delirious lake, skin cool as a rose petal symphony. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on www.flickr.com
Pleiades
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year Celebration Part Five; Revisiting Anthony Desmond Gayle is hosting the 5th part and last day of the special 5th anniversary celebration, starting with an interview with Anthony Desmond, including his poem ‘When Everything Real is Gone’ as a prompt to reflect and write on a belief (or what […]
Woman of the Page
A sonnet to Elizabeth Barrett Browning in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Night Music Prompt #52: Virginia Woolf, Indigo Girls You were weak of body but strong of mind, At four a bookworm, a precocious child, Your father’s little Poet Laureate, Who became addicted to opiates. Illness and loss almost drove you insane, Laudanum and […]
In Glaze of Dusk
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year celebration Part 4, Catching up with Samuel Peralta Björn has interviewed Samuel Peralta. I enjoyed his poem, ‘N. poeticus’, which has made me a little nervous about my own post this evening. What I have taken from the interview is Sam’s advice to ‘write from the heart, but […]
One False Step
My response to Sue Vincent – Daily Echo Thursday Photo Prompt – Stepping Stones – #writephoto This week’s photo prompt: I cross the river of life on slippery stones, Not daring to look down – One false step could break my bones. Churning rapids to the left of me, Unknown depths to the right of […]
Grandmother’s Dragonfly
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Transforming with Nature’s Wonders This happened. Through a haze of tears And buzzing in my ears, I heard the vicar’s voice That told me to rejoice, That you were like a dragonfly, Your dazzling soul emerging when you died. At home, I found an envelope from […]
Transformation
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver Fairy Tale #77 July 21st – The Ugly Duckling Fairy Tales often taught us a moral, like in the story of the Ugly Duckling. For today’s Fairy Tale task we are creating a modern day version of the Ugly Duckling. She was her parents’ little girl, Preened and […]
Finding Your Heart
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year celebration Part 3 – Laurie Kolp & A Summer Continuance Thank you Walter and Grace for the interview with Laurie; I’ve bookmarked her website and will be taking a look later. We have the following quote from which to draw inspiration: “I am cold, even though the […]
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