My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #39: Sleep walking ‘Le Somnambule’ by Marc Chagall Midnight, no stars in the sky. By the light of the moon sleepwalkers are at it again – drowning. © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tag: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
Drowned Optimism
My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Sunday Mini-Challenge: Shallows, Deeply I realise I’m a bit late but I really liked the look of this challenge: to show there still be dragons below and within and around us and find something deep in a shallow world, writing deeply in a shallow space—using little, saying […]
An Autumn Murder
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #121 In autumn, when he came calling, leaves turning, fires burning, tendrils of mist were curling, leaves were falling. In autumn, in the forest dark, his black art ate her heart, ripped her gentle limbs apart, left the devil’s mark. In autumn, he ripped off […]
Ambisinister
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #117 “July 11th, 2016” Ambisinister as a duck, I scratch the surface of a metaphor That destructs In a shivering thunderhead Of poetic ephemerids, Filling the chambers Of my heart with benign Imagery and rhyme. No need to bribe Saint Peter To enter The plush gates of heaven When you […]
Weary of my Wisdom
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt #167 “Collage Special Edition” “I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that hath gathered too much honey.” Is a quote from Nietzsche. Collage by Laura Bloomsbury be sure to stop by her blog! The signpost said there were One and a half miles still to go But […]
Nature’s Eye
My response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt – Look Out – #writephoto Looking out from the darkness… Nature’s eyelid is cracked and made of stone, Fixed on a landscape of green, rust, and grey; She observes the landscape coming undone, Its tree-crowned hills tumbling between fields and sky. Bent trees breast the north wind […]
Coulrophobia
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Friday Music Prompt #50: Send in the Clowns I don’t like clowns, They make me scared; The ones with red noses and untameable hair, Send them away. I don’t feel safe. I don’t approve. Rowdy, disruptive and always on the move, Boisterous clowns. I don’t like clowns. I prefer the […]
How Grandmothers Began
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #75 July 7th – Bedtime Stories for Grandparents Once upon a time, When the world had just begun, Everything was fresh and new And everyone was young, No grandfathers like you Or grandmothers like me, No-one to tuck you in Or read a bedtime story. One morning, a […]
A poem in July’s Visual Verse
I am so pleased that another of my submissions has been included in the latest online Visual Verse anthology. At the moment, my poem ‘Baring my Soul’ is on page 25: http://visualverse.org
Dark Dreams of Drowning
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #120 also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform – Alessio Albi Caught in a net of despair, Rank water dripping from your hair Patters like tiny fingers tapping In the languid lake. Feet grasped by reeds And ponderous pondweed, Lips tight shut against intrusive […]
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