stubble still crackles burnt fields quiver their dry voices whisper in devastation’s backwind blackened trees shiver letting fly blackened bark and leaves – a whirlwind of charcoal and dust Kim M. Russell, 26th November 2018 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Poetics: Fire up that Creativity, also linked to Imaginary Garden with Real Toads Tuesday […]
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Winter Crow
wind battered crows ascend from a naked tree leafy silhouettes Kim M. Russell, 2018 My response to Carpe Diem’s Crossroads #6 A Leafless Tree (Soseki Natsume) We have a new episode of the special feature ‘’crossroads’, a challenge to create a ‘fusion haiku’ from two given haiku. This week both haiku were written by Soseki […]
Bay Tree Blues (or Greens)
Your branches no longer rub against the gutter, there is no friendly creak in boisterous winds; your limbs were amputated, disintegrated in the garden shredder. You still stand strong, birds sing among shiny winter green leaves, while you breathe out your noble pepper aroma. Kim M. Russell, 2017 My response to dVerse Poets Pub Quadrille: […]
Magic Tree
How good and magical it would be to grow my own mirabilis tree: apotropaic holly, hazel and rowan are all quite plausible. I’d abandon all my flaws and fears, in one bald gesture quell my tears; enter a new and different age as Lucida, white tree witch and sage. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found […]
Silent Lights
in the busy square the premature Christmas tree lights remain silent © Kim M. Russell, 2016 Christmas Tree in the Market Square in Wroclaw in preparation for Christmas My fourth haiku for the Carpe Diem First Winter Retreat 2016 the kick off – find the silence
Angles in Tangles
I have deconstructed an old poem as a response to Carpe Diem Theme Week 3: Magnolia Blossoms, haiku by Soseki Natsume; episode 5 leafless tree there are triangles in the bare branches of trees angles in tangles sharpness smoothed by light tracing ghostly foliage smoothing the edges © Kim M. Russell, 2016
The end of The Juniper Tree
Part 3 When the bird’s song was over it flew away; Gone too were the handkerchief and the boy And pretty Margery smiled with joy. It landed on the roof of a goldsmith’s house, Singing: ‘My mother killed her little son; My father thought me lost and gone; But sister Margery pitied me And laid […]
Tree Gazing
A cleave poem in response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie B&P Shadorma & Beyond – Elfje and Shadorma Tangled limbs extend Birch branches catch a passing cloud Bark and leaves twigs and buds Dreaming under its filigree silhouettes Inspirations penetrate the sky bring me back to earth . © Kim M. Russell, 2016
More of ‘The Juniper Tree’
Part 2 Not knowing how to shirk the blame, The wicked stepmother was afraid; She searched for a handkerchief To secure her stepson’s head And then she sat him on a stool As if he were not dead Under the juniper tree With an apple in his hand. Running in from the garden To find […]
The Juniper Tree – a Grimm tale
After months of writing poems based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen, I decided to look for some more obscure and lesser-known fairy tales to inspire me. I started with the Brothers Grimm and found one called ‘The Juniper Tree’, which I hadn’t come across before. Part 1 A long, long time ago, a […]
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