grasshopper in cropped copper fields calls to clouds sings to storms above whispered promises wind in the stubble © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond: Twelfth Song – August 27, 2016. Welcome back to Paloma, who has given us a Navajo ceremonial chant and song lyrics by Rich Mullins […]
Tag: Shadorma
Autumn on the Horizon
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – August 20, 2016 I hadn’t heard of the poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and will be looking for more of her work after reading today’s prompt poem: Landscape with Desire Next month maples along this lake will rage orange and scarlet. Firs we barely discern on that […]
Insignificance
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Photo Challenge #126 Source: Unknown stony beach of infinity magnifies a human’s insignificance on immeasurable shores © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Ent Song
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Writing Prompt August 14th: Spinning of a Story This Sunday we’re spinning our own threads into the stories that fascinate us. I have to keep this brief as we only returned yesterday from a couple of days away to celebrate my sixtieth birthday and I put catching up on writing before […]
Farewell Rose
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P Shadorma & Beyond – August 13, 2016 Picture from The Book of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pisan Farewell rose So white and so fair Gracious queen Smile serene Pole star in the darkest night So fair and so white © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Silent and Soft
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – August 6, 2016 This week Candy has chosen a poem from a book she discovered in a book sale by James Kavanaugh, an American poet, new to me too: Soft And Silent Everything I love is soft and silent, My cat, the morning, the end of […]
Voice
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P’s Shadorma and Beyond – July 23, 2016. Candy has given us an example of a poem by Billy Collins to inspire us to create a Shadorma: Carry I want to carry you and for you to carry me the way voices are said to carry over water. Just this morning on […]
Finding Your Heart
My response to dVerse Poets Pub 5 Year celebration Part 3 – Laurie Kolp & A Summer Continuance Thank you Walter and Grace for the interview with Laurie; I’ve bookmarked her website and will be taking a look later. We have the following quote from which to draw inspiration: “I am cold, even though the […]
Rising from Pavements (a shadorma reprise)
I decided to deconstruct and re-write this poem following racist attacks in which a Polish community centre in London and a Romanian shop in Norwich were vandalised after the vote to leave the EU. I posted the original poem last August, which was inspired by a photograph my husband took on a trip to Wroclav, […]
Charade Shadorma
My response to the secret keeper’s Weekly Writing Prompt #38 You parade new rules in this game this charade in your face fake emotions I can trace as I call your bluff © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Image found on Pinterest
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