My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #20: Hourglass poetry element of truth in snarl of words sparse slivers of light in shadows lingering constellation of a train of thought © Kim M. Russell, 2016
Tag: Words
Word Rebel
My response to The Secret Keeper’s Weekly Word Prompt #26 – this was a tough one! Word rebel In haiku forest Clears the way Word rebel Bans dark confusion Patch of light In haiku forest Pruning green Foliage Clears the way To enlightenment Haiku thrives © Kim M. Russell, 2016
First haiku of the week
Lonely Words Watery words weep Steeped in hours of lonely thoughts Talking to myself © Kim M. Russell, 2015
Outside
Outside in the playground With the popular girls Looking for acceptance That wasn’t what you found Only affectations Conformity and submission To the tyranny of fashion Empty-headed smilers and pleasers Pretenders and teasers You searched for honesty Found only lies No friendship or sisterhood No forever ties So you hooked up with the boys Learning […]
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Dysfunctional Family Artifice and lies Tangled in family ties Words are out of place
A Poet’s Truth
Having turned my hand to the sonnet in the past, I thought I would investigate the ottava rima. In the English form, a stanza has eight lines of three alternate rhymes and one rhyming couplet, following the pattern a-b-a-b-a-b-c-c. The meter is usually iambic pentameter. A Poet’s Truth A word is struck and bursts forth […]
An interest in etymology
I wrote this after reading mashed radish, the etymology blog. I studied linguistics many years ago and am interested in etymology. While teaching English at a high school in Norfolk, one homework project I devised that really got Year 7 and 8 students going was the presentation of a word. They had to choose a […]
Quote Poems – day three
This is the third and final day of writing a poem related to a quote. Quote # 3: If you’re tired of the silent night, Jesus, well then you yell it – Joni Mitchell Yelling in the Silent Night Silence sizzles in the dark White noise against black shadows Every creak making its mark Echoes in the […]
Quote Poems – day two
This is the second day of writing a poem related to a quote. Quote # 2: A writer is a world trapped in a person – Victor Hugo Catch a Poem Trapped inside a poet Is a world of wit Populated with words Surrounded by a celestial sphere Of imagination And creation This realm of reason Orbits […]
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