My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Music Prompt #46: “What’s Left of the Flag” by Flogging Molly Crossing the borders of sanity Into lands unknown, Losing hope of humanity, Braving the future alone. Bearing the flag of freedom, Tattered and wind-blown; Grasping at remnants of reason In a handful of stone and bone. Craving for crumbs […]
Tag: Poems
A poem to sum up my feelings in this post.
The Proust Effect
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night, for which I would like to share a ‘stream of consciousness’ poem I submitted to The Poetry Society’s Members’ Poems Competition on the topic of ‘scent’, which was unsuccessful. I inhale The summer trail Of dust and flowers Where we played for hours Sniffing wild fennel studded […]
Living Ghosts
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #71 June 9 – Behind Closed Doors Terrors of the terrace Living ghosts Creep up the ginnel Up and down the back yards In and out of gates Looking in windows Tapping on doors Listening Watching Haunting © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Song of the Sailor’s Wife
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – The Music in You – in which Mish has challenged us to write our own songs. I took my salty tears And gave them to the sea When the evening tide turned It brought them back to me The ocean cried The ocean wailed The day […]
Demented Forest
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #116 She felt herself shrinking In a forest of demented trees Monochrome like barcodes From a neurodegenerative disease. She felt a rage erupting That mutated into delusion, Dived deep into strange faces, Emerging in confusion. She couldn’t remember the way Along paths she’d often trod But familiar walks […]
Descent from a Night Flight
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #112 Through massive saurian eyes We gaze down the night From elevated height At civilisation below Leaking pearls of light. Turning heads As it dips its wings, We are offline, suspended, Apart from things That can only happen down below, Entelechy tells us so, As do the legible instructions […]
I’m in Visual Verse again!
I am delighted to see that Visual Verse have included another of my poems in their latest anthology. At the moment, my poem is on page 10, but from past experience I know that could change: http://visualverse.org/
To My Cat Tosca
My husband found her body in the road this morning on his way to work. You were my soul companion throughout the day, with your burnished fur that changed from brown to grey, your feline smile and gentle breathy purr. I shall miss your dainty body perched on my shoulder or curled up in my […]
A Victorian Vignette
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Wordle #110 With her flushed neck and face, She is a damask rose Entwined by tendrils of waist-length hair. She gasps, moonstruck at the care And flawless delicacy of the vignette, The frontispiece of a book she hasn’t read yet: Poetry that will melt her with metaphors, Set alight a […]
Death’s Dominion (found)
My reponse to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt: Tarot: Major Arcana: Death For this prompt I have used Dylan Thomas’s poem ‘And death shall have no dominion’ as the material for a found poem. Death’s dominion is the naked dead; He places stars at foot and head And picks their bones to use again, Giving hope […]
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