My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #78 July 28th – Waiting Waiting, Counting minutes with each crack Of the knuckle clock, Each tick followed by a tock. Scanning, Searching crowds for her face, Feeling out of place, Longing for her embrace. Shuffling, Rearranging aching feet On cracks of cruddy concrete, Sweltering in the heat. […]
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Transformation
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver Fairy Tale #77 July 21st – The Ugly Duckling Fairy Tales often taught us a moral, like in the story of the Ugly Duckling. For today’s Fairy Tale task we are creating a modern day version of the Ugly Duckling. She was her parents’ little girl, Preened and […]
How Grandmothers Began
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #75 July 7th – Bedtime Stories for Grandparents Once upon a time, When the world had just begun, Everything was fresh and new And everyone was young, No grandfathers like you Or grandmothers like me, No-one to tuck you in Or read a bedtime story. One morning, a […]
Resisting the Devil
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver Prompt #74: June 30 2016: Word Associations For the Tale Weaver prompt for this Thursday we are exploring the concept/idea of word associations with ‘BLACK MAGIC WOMAN’. I took words from Peter Green’s lyrics to create a spell to resist the devil. The devil’s blind, he cannot see […]
A bit of fun on EU Referendum Thursday
The Power of Nonsense My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale weaver #73 June 23rd – Making Sense of Nonsense I was never more certain Of the power of nonsense Until I read The Book of Universal Cerfin By the expert Bott Grojean, Who, I believe, has a PhDee In physics and astronomy. Cerfin is a unique […]
Passion
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver Prompt #72: June 16 2016: Passiflora caerulea Awash with cerulean ripples, Other-worldly, complex flowers Clamour, South American beauties At the windows of a brothel, Wild and menacing As their vigorous vines Intertwine And swallow trees whole Like Amazonian anacondas. And yet, The intricate structure Of each flower Is […]
Living Ghosts
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #71 June 9 – Behind Closed Doors Terrors of the terrace Living ghosts Creep up the ginnel Up and down the back yards In and out of gates Looking in windows Tapping on doors Listening Watching Haunting © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The Ballad of the Space Diamond
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #66: All that Glitters She had the hardness and glitter Of a diamond But her heart had the softness Of a pearl; Under make-up, jewels and furs She was still a little girl, Not a tigress who growls and then purrs. He had money and a rampant reputation […]
Traffic Lights
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #64: May 5 2016: School Yard Games She knew he was red-light dangerous, The kind of guy her friends warned her about, One to avoid when the lights went out. But red is a colourful aphrodisiac, A silken poppy on a summer’s day. She couldn’t let her bad […]
New Arrival
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie Tale Weaver #63 – Arrival You fell into my world in a lather of mucus and blood, tiny and voraciously hungry, latching to me, a wrinkled alien, ready to grow into your skin. You were tethered by the umbilical cord, not yet ready for your first spacewalk; That came a […]
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