apple blossoms left by a neighbour doorstep gift apricots on her upper lip traces of juice damp earth freeing their fragrance storm-tossed asters shapeless bracken and bird’s wing lost to the cold nature’s gifts fruit and blossoms circle of life Kim M. Russell, 18th November 2019 My response to Carpe Diem #1782 freestyling haiku: Devouring […]
Tag: Seasons
A South London Heaven
Across the football pitch on this side of the rails is wild fennel and long grass: a jungle for snails. There’s a wild damson tree, hawthorn and crab apples, where we lie, you and me, below leafy dapples. In summer there’s sunshine, in winter there’s snow; I love spring and autumn, when trees bloom and […]
Dance of Seasons
autumn’s earthy breath holds promises of winter and spring memories spiralling leaves and petals dance to a similar tune © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Carpe Diem #1050 blossoms Today our prompt is blossoms and Jane Reichold wrote wonderful haiku with this modern kigo for spring, of which Chèvrefeuille gave us a few examples as […]
Passing Seasons
My response to Carpe Diem Tokubetsudesu #78 Soliloquy no Renga “autumn night” by Santoka Taneda Chevrefeuille has challenged us to write a Soliloquy no Renga, which is a renga written by one poet, adding our own stanzas to create a “solo-renga”. A renga has two kinds of stanzas, three lined stanza and two lined stanza […]
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