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    • Has anyone lost a sheep?
    • How Grandmothers Began
    • Once upon a Time
    • Storytime
    • The Unicorn Quest
  • Children’s Stories
    • Araminta
    • Halloween Bear
    • The Christmas Wish
    • The Goblins’ Halloween Trick
  • Novels
    • Joe and Nelly (synopsis)
    • The Haunted Tide (synopsis)
  • Short stories and flash fiction
    • A Soul Released in Coltishall
    • A Tangible Presence
    • All the lonely people
    • Celebration
    • Dancing with Shadows – flash fiction
    • Drowning in Time
    • Empty Platform
    • Ghost Writer
    • Holding On
    • In the Bibliophile’s Library
    • Ludwig’s Friday Morning – flash fiction
    • Message on a Timeline
    • Spoon Man
    • The Bay Tree
    • The Smuggler’s Treasure
    • The Tree of Life
    • The Woman Who Lost Her Balance – flash fiction
    • Three Way Family Favourites
    • Uncle Bert’s Pigeons
    • Wait for me
  • Poems about Ageing
    • Demented Forest
    • Demented Loneliness
    • Different Dreams
    • Flowers
    • Forgetting to Live
    • Kinesthesia of Memories
    • Mumbling into Black Holes
    • My Asymmetry
    • On Ageing
    • Sonnet to an Old Winter Coat
    • Traces of the Girl
  • Poems about Childhood and Youth
    • Alone on a bench
    • Grandfather’s Roses
    • Grandmother’s Ghost
    • Ironing on a Wet Tuesday
    • Lunatic Virtuoso
    • Mitcham May Queen
    • Once upon a time I was a teenage girl
    • Playground Days
    • Seaside Beauties (re-worked)
    • Summer Quilt
    • Summers Past
    • The Full Moon of Brighton
    • The Loneliness of Swings
    • The Proust Effect
    • Where do I come from?
  • Poems about Fairy Tales
    • The Fir Tree
    • The Juniper Tree – a Grimm tale
    • The Little Match Girl
    • The Little Mermaid 
    • The Little Robber Girl
    • The Princess and the Pea
    • The Snowman
    • The Steadfast Tin Soldier
    • The Three Children of Fortune – a Grimm tale
    • The Wild Swans
  • Poems about Norfolk
    • A Fine City
    • A Rural Sunday
    • A Seaside Sonnet
    • A Village Vanishes
    • Afternoon Stroll
    • Archaeology on the Beach 
    • At the Gatehouse
    • Brancaster Poppies
    • Coast Walk Interrupted – a huitain
    • Coastal Symphony
    • Doggerland
    • End of a Norwich Day
    • Footprints to the Past – a villanelle
    • Late Afternoon on a Norfolk Wherry
    • Lighthouse at Happisburgh
    • Liquid Blue Octave
    • Lost to the Sea
    • Man of the Marshes
    • Norfolk Morning
    • Norfolk Sundowner
    • North Norfolk Brume
    • North Norfolk Mammoth
    • North Norfolk Mammoth (reprise)
    • Norwich Peregrine Falcons
    • On the Brink of Nature
    • On Visiting Wiveton Hall Gardens
    • One quiet moment
    • Overcast
    • Overcast on the Norfolk Coast
    • Pebble in the Sand
    • Quintessence
    • Seal Etheree
    • Seal Watching
    • Standing at dusk
    • Sunday Walkers in Early Spring
    • The End of Norfolk Giants
    • The Poppy Line
    • The Witch of Hethel
  • Poems Inspired by Artists and Other Writers
    • A Da Vinci Ode
    • Adam’s Rib
    • Catch a Poem
    • Digging for poems
    • Eustacia
    • Exploring Rodin
    • Klimt’s Medicine
    • In Prospero’s Cave
    • Klimt’s Philosophy
    • Miranda’s Tempest
    • On First Seeing ‘Praying Hands’ by Dürer
    • Overshadowed by David
    • Postcards from Klimt
    • Reply to Carol Ann Duffy – an old poem
    • Response to Sonnet 12
    • Response to Sonnet 108
    • Shakespeare’s Hands
    • Song of a Modern Prospero
    • Starry Night
    • Sylvia and Ted
    • Tomorrow’s Poems
    • Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Cypress
    • Walking Barefoot through my Dreams
    • Wavering
    • Woman of the Page
    • Woolf Unafraid
  • Visual Verse Anthology
    • American Paradox (February 2016 issue)
    • Felinity (March 2016 issue)
    • Tearing a Hole (April 2016 issue)
    • Femmes de Sourie (May 2016 issue)
    • Carpe Diem (June 2016 issue)
    • Baring my Soul (July 2016 issue)
    • Surviving the Oil Slick of Sisterhood (August 2016 issue)
  • Other Poetic Scribbling
    • Old Poems
    • Haiku
    • Tanka
    • Rilke’s Panther – a translation
    • Owl Music
    • Stone – a love poem
    • Trees Dancing
    • Autumn makes a dramatic entrance
    • Daughter
    • Elephant Love
    • Scribbling on my Soul
    • A poem is born
    • Helianthus
    • Newgrange
    • Chasing Poems
    • Autumn Sonnet
    • Sleeping Angel
    • Vespers
    • Brambles
    • Hydrangea
    • Early Hours
    • The deer under the willow tree
    • Cat Lick
    • Mushroom Hunting
    • Life in the City
    • London Underground
    • Plough
    • Precipitation
    • Soul Cat
    • Relationships
    • Orpheus on the Underground
    • Looking Up
    • Unhook the Moon
    • The Leap
    • The Theatre of Silence
    • Books are Cold and Certain Friends
    • Under the Waves
    • Grasshoppers
    • Equinox
    • When things go wrong
    • Unloved
    • Sovereign Ghost
    • A Reader’s First Books
    • Storytime
    • Consumed
    • Self Similar
    • Magpie in the Garden
    • Banshee
    • A Goldfish Bowl
    • In Fog – a translation
    • Shipwreck
    • Sea Gypsies of Myanmar
    • Sink
    • Dream
    • Silver Birch
    • Graffiti
    • Evanescent
    • Butterfly Ghost
    • Copper Beech in the Garden
    • Nightfall with Boats
    • The Astronomical Clock in Prague
    • Love poem to a mango
    • Hill Rolling
    • A Frosty Morning
    • Derelict Birdhouse
    • Bratislava Rooftops
    • Morning Unfolds
    • Ode to a Blustery Day
    • Blurred Vision
    • Walking with Words
    • Harvest
    • When the Party’s Over
    • Under the breath of the wind
    • The Point of Punctuation (or Blame it on the Christians)
    • Trees are Aflame
    • Alice’s Grave
    • Seaside Beauties
    • The Smell of Autumn
    • Impending Storm
    • Outside
    • Perpetuity
    • Orangutan
    • Exploded Atom
    • Sleep Sheet
    • Halloween Love Affair
    • Murmuration
    • Cake and Candles
    • Lunar Light
    • Sad Season
    • Different Kinds of Black
    • He Went to War
    • Tread Carefully
    • Tigress
    • Final Resting Place
    • Fog
    • Planting Tulips in November
    • Footprints in the Snow
    • Dancing Bear
    • Floating
    • Nighthogs
    • Kiss in the Dark
    • Venice
    • Dispersion
    • More Rain
    • Law of Nature
    • Long Distance
    • Feather on Microphone
    • Rambler in Late Autumn – translation of a poem by Hermann Hesse
    • Last Night
    • Apathy on a Windy Day
    • Word Arrangement
    • Sea Spray
    • Elephant
    • A Poet’s Insomnia
    • Office Suite
    • Thames Twilight
    • Tidings of Magpies
    • Hollow Inside
    • Copper Beech Etched in the Garden
    • Ephemeral Poems Become Phantoms
    • Shouting Rhymes
    • Caspian – a sonnet
    • Chiming in a Wintry Sunday
    • Back to Black
    • Nature’s Finery
    • Love for Nothing
    • Unbidden Itchiness of the Mind
    • Dashed Dreams
    • Oh Christmas Tree
    • A Chilly Morning in Prague
    • Early Hues of a New Day
    • Shock and Shame
    • Pigeon Steps in the Dark
    • Twilight
    • The Curlew’s Cry
    • Communication Breakdown
    • The Wisdom of Trees
    • Neglected
    • A Quiet Place
    • Cyclamen
    • Burying the Pain
    • Winter Twilight
    • Darkest Apathy
    • Monochrome of Morning
    • Night Approaches
    • Trapped
    • Axis
    • The Forgiveness of Nature
    • Holly Tree
    • Caresses
    • Owl Music
    • Robin in the Garden
    • Christmas Honesty
    • Colder than Expected
    • Christmas morning
    • Under a Pearly Sky
    • Once upon a Time
    • Winter Walk with Dogs
    • Night Comes to the Evening Table
    • Drawing the Curtains on Twilight
    • Stephen’s Sunday
    • Old Spectacles
    • Garden Geometry
    • Weather
    • Winter Octet
    • A Windy Night
    • Another Year Approaches
    • Tangles of Briar
    • Going to Bed on New Year’s Eve with a Good Book and a Cup of Tea
    • Ocarina Owls
    • Draining the Reefs of Colour
    • Enough
    • Planet Jigsaw
    • Sun in January
    • Cold Fence
    • Wreck of a Schooner
    • Editing my Soul
    • Winter Rising
    • Sea Birds
    • The Seafarer’s Garden
    • Charles Bridge in Prague
    • Overwintering
    • Waiting
    • Birth of a Poem
    • Preparing for a Winter’s Night
    • Flayed Skin
    • Stick Fishing
    • Stranger on a Red Bus
    • Blackbird Morning
    • Nonet
    • An Early Display of Snowdrops
    • Sun and Moon
    • Vacant Birdhouse
    • Saddleworth Moor
    • Everything Was Beautiful
    • Reflections on a Train
    • Arcadia
    • Return of the Woodpecker
    • Your shoes will make you happy today
    • Winter Wreckage
    • Ardour of the Wind
    • Climbing the Mountain – a shadorma
    • The Modern Prometheus
    • An Audience of Darkness and Shadows
    • Poetic Dreaming
    • The Christmas Hare
    • Lichen
    • Sinister Spring Heralds
    • The Power of Bubbles
    • Vain Warbler
    • A Rare Visit
    • Ephemeral
    • Blossom – a shadorma
    • Seascape
    • On first visiting Burano
    • The River Sings
    • Rain in the Valley
    • The Truth of Words – an hourglass poem
    • Springtime Scribbles
    • Early Morning Snow
    • Brave and Quiet
    • The Tipsy Widow’s Funeral
    • The Kindness of Friends
    • Night Mysteries
    • Waiting on the Edge of a Season
    • Medusa’s Lament
    • Trouble in the Water
    • Morning Song
    • Gemini Lovers
    • Night-time at the Tattoo Parlour
    • Night Mare on the Moor
    • Selfie
    • The Unicorn Quest
    • Dark Satellite
    • Seeking Clarity
    • Head Cold
    • Monsters
    • The Blatherskite
    • Melting into Mourning
    • Mightier than the Sword
    • Early Morning Exaltation
    • The Myth of Mary
    • Writer’s Block
    • A Seaside Octain
    • Disappointed
    • The Lost Pharaoh
    • Easter Sunday
    • Invisible London
    • The Lonely Vampire’s Lament
    • Before the Battle
    • Mountain View from a Window Seat
    • Soul Journey

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April 18, 2018

Moment in a Dew Drop

At this moment, quiet morning is pouring a glow of orange sunlight into the garden, placing a drop of dew on every blade of grass; a fluid moment at the start of a new day. Kim M. Russell, 2018 My response to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads NaPoWriMo:  Write Here. Write Now. Paul says that […]

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April 20, 2017

Honey Moon

whoever it was who said that the moon is made of cheese had never tasted the sweetness of a honey moon, a hive for bees that swarm and honey-comb the brightest constellations, pollinating coy comets and falling stars Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver 116 – The Moon Today the Tale […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged Micro poetry, Mindlovemisery's Menagerie, Moon, Shape poem, Tale Weaver. 11 Comments
October 10, 2016December 17, 2016

Vitrification 

She is aware of the grey frailty of a fennel- feathered cygnet adrift on the lake, an urgent avian emergency. In her inexplicable urge to embody Leda in a corrupt embrace, she wraps it in bandage to lessen the damage, a tiny mummy to vitrify o                   […]

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