The Christmas Hare
written by: Kim M. Russell
@kim88110
In a snowy field one Christmas Eve
I spied a windswept hare
leaping and gambolling
in the frosty air.
The tawny coat beguiled me,
framed by the dazzling white
of the wintry blanket
spread out for the night.
As I watched the hare cavorting,
the sun began to sink
and the backdrop to its dance
flushed a bashful shade of pink.
The creature turned and saw me,
its eyes of amber sparked,
and with that the snowy field
vanished in the dark.
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)
- A Walk in the Garden on Christmas Day - December 25, 2023
- Dark Reflections - October 24, 2022
- The Christmas Hare - December 20, 2021
