Being a flat county, Norfolk has huge, expansive skies. In the daytime, they are expressive, with scudding clouds and ever-changing colours, whereas cloudless nights are full of stars or flood-lit by a full moon. My favourite moon is the one that looks like a smile, beaming down on me: the mezza luna. tides tumble on […]
Tag: Smile
Smiling with the Sun
generous Buddha spreads warm smiles on mountain peaks Himalayan sun Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to Carpe Diem #1205 Smile In a new episode of CDHK’s journey through Tibet our prompt is ‘smile’. Chèvrefeuille tells us that Tibetans are called the smiling people: they are always friendly and smiling. He […]
Painting a Smile on the Moon
In the smeared window appears a sad silver face tangled in tendrils of willow, staring down from space through a veil of mist and cosmic dust. She rises ghostly, a pale apple in a tree, daring me to take up my brush, to paint a blush upon her cheek, a smile upon her mouth, to […]
Smile
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille August 24th 2016 a new dawn, a new day, a new life early morning walk I smile at the scarecrow’s silk pocket handkerchief © Kim M. Russell, 2016
My Mother’s Smile
My response to Carpe Diem #1026 Smile Today’s inspirational quote is from Mother Teresa (1910-1997): “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” lined and thinned with age the ghost of her smile survives a spark in blue eyes © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Another poem inspired by a quote
The Stuff of Smiles “A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.’ Victor Hugo from Les Miserables Your face is worn with winter woes, Its contours bleak and bitter. Your eyes are grey, with flecks of ice, A vaguely perceptible glitter. But when you smile the sun breaks out […]
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