shooting stars lit up the night sky with comets’ magic dust I whispered a quiet wish couldn’t say what for I wished on the right star my once in a night-time star that brought you to me © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on genius.com My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: […]
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Cascading Moonlight
Purest silver light cascades into darkest night; heaven’s lantern, constant but drawn by the tide, fades into black from a smiling face to a winking eye. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest Taken from a previously posted cascading haiku and reworked for dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Moon-muse, where Grace has asked us to write about […]
The Soundtrack to Your First Embrace
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: The Sound of Love. This evening Walt has challenged us to explore the SOUND of love. You fold your arms around her With a whisper of wings, Your breath in her ear Like sea in a shell, washing A distant shore and yet so near. Your heart gallops, A […]
Liquid Blue Octave
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Breathing in Blue also shared on Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday Platform De (WhimsyGizmo) has inspired us with photos from her visit to Lake Tahoe – “Lake of the Sky” and, for this week’s Poetics, asks us to look up, breathe in some blue, and breathe out a poem. […]
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 […]
Ironing on a Wet Tuesday
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Empire of Scents This Tuesday Grace has set us the challenge of writing a poem about scents. It’s a wet Tuesday, Rain spits at the closed window And I’m listening to the radio, Following in grandmother’s footsteps. The iron steams. Clothes, rescued from the line Are scented with […]
When the Whole World Measured Time
Another response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Summer Starter I thought I’d give Walter’s prompt another go. This time I have chosen ‘Summer Solstice’ by Carrie Richards and have incorporated a line from an old poem of mine. When the whole world measured timeIn light and dark,Stonehenge was brand newLike you,My child.One drab June,When rain […]
Night Skies in Summer
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Tuesday Poetics: Summer Starter Walter is the host at this week’s edition of Tuesday Poetics! He has asked us to celebrate the first full (official) day of the Summer of 2016 by taking inspiration from a summer moment as seen through the eyes of another poet, something that sparks our […]
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 […]
On Watching Three Old Drinkers
I wrote this poem over thirty five years ago when I was living in Ireland. It’s my second response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – Character Study And whose are these eyes Sunk in thick-brimming liquid oblivion? And whose are these mouths, Uncontrollable rubber bands Chewing on unspoken words They spit tastelessly back in the glass? […]
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