Rosary of Words
written by: Kim M. Russell
i use words like beads to tell
the stories that haunt me
they are strung on shadows of what
i know is
poetry and the gist of it
while you
sit and plan
each word and line to
an accurate death that’s what you do
killing your words with
the sharpness of your
newspaper prose while I am the one
who lets words run wild
like birds or butterflies and
lets them be as precious
as life
Kim M. Russell has been writing since she was a schoolgirl but only started posting and submitting to competitions and anthologies when she retired from teaching in 2014. She posts mainly poetry on her WordPress blog, writing in north norfolk, and is a host of the international website dVerse Poets Pub. Her poems have been published on-line on Visual Verse, Carpe Diem and Pure Haiku, as well as in the following printed anthologies: Poetry Rivals and Love's Labyrinth (Forward Press), Afflatus Magazine, River Writes (Bure Navigation Conservation Trust), the Emma Press Anthology of Aunts and the Peeking Cat Anthology 2017, as well as a piece of flash fiction in Flash, I love you!, published by Paper Swans Press.
Latest posts by Kim M. Russell (see all)
- Rosary of Words - July 6, 2026
- A Walk in the Garden on Christmas Day - December 25, 2023
- Dark Reflections - October 24, 2022
