My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics : Poetry is for the Birds, inspired by Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29: “the lark at break of day arising / From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate”. Up with the lark’s early morning exaltation of exclamation curlicues and marks that punctuate the sky thrillingly trilling high above open fields […]
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Poetic Dreaming
The second poem was another one I reworked, first posted in August. If you want to walk Barefoot through my dreams Wipe your feet You inhabit my world Hide in shadows Under my bed I’m too slurred with sleep To stuff you in my pyjama pocket Trap you in my memory Infuse you in […]
The Seafarer’s Garden
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #12: Quatern Merged in a wash of blatant blue, Ocean and sky meet in a kiss, The seafarer surveys the view, Standing alone in private bliss. Sloping down to a steep cliff’s edge, Merged in a wash of blatant blue, Surrounded by sheep’s bit and sedge, Scattered […]
Helianthus
The third unsuccessful poem In a covert patch Amongst cornfields Flowers of radiant yellow Turn buds skywards Tracking the sun From east to west September And yellow-rayed faces Of fibonacci spirals No longer teased By bees Face only east They are short-lived Growing heavy-headed Threatened by the distant Thrumming of birds That swoop […]
A Seaside Sonnet
The second of the three unsuccessful poems I dig my toes in shifting grains of sand, Eroded rock, disintegrated shell, Let shingle drift away from palm of hand To land in foaming lace of ocean’s swell. By increments surrounded by the tide, That ebbs and flows and rises to my thigh, I am enchanted by […]
Planet Jigsaw
Here is a poem I submitted to a magazine a while ago for an issue that focuses on ecopoetics and the environment. The editor felt that it was not the right fit for the issue but hoped I will not feel deterred from submitting future work. Although I am somewhat disappointed, I am pleased to […]
Enough
I have been watching the new BBC1 series ‘Dickensian’, a gripping, atmospheric whodunit set in Victorian times and amalgamating the characters and stories of a range of Dickens’ works. The cast is superb, as are the costumes and settings. I particularly like the way Miss Havisham’s story has been treated, so I revisited the chapter […]
Poetry is Rocket Science
My response to the secret keeper’s weekly writing prompt #16 There’s comfort in words Head full of lines and stanzas Melting into shape Wicked rhythm of poems Escaping into space © Kim M. Russell, 2015 Image found on en.wikipedia.org
Writing Poetry in the Night Sky
An enormous sky Perfect for writing poems Haikus and tankas Punctuated with bright stars The moon a big fat full stop © Kim M. Russell, 2015
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