Awaking from a dream, I rush to fix and frame the fading memory in a poetic form with, maybe, rhyme. At my desk, I am distracted by the morning garden and the wizened apple tree, where a blackbird’s song is snatched by the breeze. Kim M. Russell, 2017
Tag: Song
Emerging
sweetest of spring songs lilts from the depth of winter fragile early thrush Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on www.rspb.org.uk Fourth day of Carpe Diem’s Spring Retreat 2017 fragile beauty Chèvrefeuille has welcomed us to the Spring Retreat 2017. Last year we had two retreats: one in summer and one in winter. This year he […]
Robin Song
On bleak mornings in November, when birdsong is muted and rare, the robin is the only bird that sings throughout the year. In the bleak gloom of winter, more wistful than in spring, a robin’s song is ‘wildly tender’ – Emily Bronte wasn’t wrong. © Kim M. Russell, 2016 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Open […]
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 […]
Song of the Sailor’s Wife
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics – The Music in You – in which Mish has challenged us to write our own songs. I took my salty tears And gave them to the sea When the evening tide turned It brought them back to me The ocean cried The ocean wailed The day […]
Chess and Lark Song
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – a game of chess This week we are writing a haibun, prose and poetry together, in which we have to use a haiku written by Chèvrefeuille, which he wrote several weeks ago in response to a photo challenge set by MLMM: a photo of an outdoor […]
Long Distance
Poems are long distance Love songs To everyone To everything Distance frees you Opens mind and heart Until Words surf on oceans Stanzas steam like liners Sailing poetry Towards a lighthouse In a distant place Someone else’s heart
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