Author: Diane Mayr

14 Dec

Amy Souza and Diane Mayr

Amy Souza and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr La Langueur Inspiration piece Digital composition. Drawing by Edgar Degas, poem by Paul Verlaine. Less Than Anguish By Amy Souza Response Quiet rain, steady the kind you can get used to Rhythm …

 
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04 Dec

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr I’m Not Due Yet Response We Go Out for Ice Cream on a Warm Night By Amy Souza Inspiration piece There’s mostly summer people, a few townies. It’s the …

 
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04 Sep

Diane Mayr and Kamika Cooper

Diane Mayr and Kamika Cooper

Diane Mayr Distance Response My Own Light By Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece Got my own light an internal flame that emanates heat through touch and sound increasing my cipher’s temperature by 180 degrees and …

 
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30 May

Diane Mayr and Rick Clark

Diane Mayr and Rick Clark

Diane Mayr Howlers Response Looking Up Looking Down Looking By Rick Clark Inspiration piece I recognize the man in the moon tonight– He scowls down on me, or perhaps on all of us, the …

 
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28 Feb

Charles Waters and Diane Mayr

Charles Waters and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr “Nightwatch” Inspiration piece First Flight By Charles Waters Response Nature’s nighttime orb Shines a smile on kids gazing From airplane window. ——————————————- Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site …

 
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28 Feb

Diane Mayr and Charles Waters

Diane Mayr and Charles Waters

Snow Event Diane Mayr Response Visitor Charles Waters Inspiration piece VISITOR Crystals of lace float Against my windowsill to Keep me company. ——————————————- Note: All of the art, writing, and music on this site belongs to …

 
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06 Dec

Diane Mayr and Kamika Cooper

Diane Mayr and Kamika Cooper

Everything Is Recyclable! Diane Mayr Response Broken Things Kamika Cooper Inspiration piece Broken things keep haunting me Telling me they won’t be thrown out with the trash on Tuesday morning Saying they won’t …

 
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30 May

Diane Mayr and Charles Waters

Diane Mayr and Charles Waters

The Corner Diane Mayr Response Victory Charles Waters Inspiration piece A fusillade of knuckles were the culprits of my now blue, black flesh. Narrow streams of red trickle down my sprouted bottom …

 
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01 Mar

Marcia Russell and Diane Mayr

Marcia Russell and Diane Mayr

Play On Diane Mayr Inspiration Piece Sonnet 1 – Play On! Marcia Russell Response If to my younger self I’d give advice – Don’t waste a single moment in regret. Be happy you …

 
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01 Mar

Diane Mayr and Marcia Russell

Diane Mayr and Marcia Russell

Between Diane Mayr Response In Honor of my Sister, Debbie, Whose Light Shines On… Marcia Russell Inspiration piece I felt like a 100-­watt light bulb dimming to 20 watts. ‘Chemo-­‐brain’ made …

 
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08 Dec

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr and Amy Souza

Diane Mayr Gettin’ Jiggy Response This Really Happened By Amy Souza Inspiration piece On the road to Damascus by the red-lipped rover, Alfred Hitchcock sits down to picnic with the actor …

 
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11 Sep

Diane Mayr and Sarah Priestman

Diane Mayr and Sarah Priestman

Diane Mayr Tears Response Sarah Priestman In Remembrance: Shall We Dance? Inspiration piece This is the day most children fear. Here I stand, 58 years old, but on this day I …

 
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09 Dec

Karen Jakubowski and Diane Mayr

Karen Jakubowski and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr Unfinish’d Poet Inspiration piece Fleur-De-Lis By Karen Jakubowski Response Monday morning arrives Scorched spark of yellow hope Rolls in like a dime-store sun Sultry eyes spill ocher beams Arms laden with …

 
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09 Dec

Diane Mayr and Karen Jakubowski

Diane Mayr and Karen Jakubowski

Diane Mayr One Size Fits Most Response 2012: Mankind’s Paradise Lost By Karen Jakubowsi Inspiration piece Fishers of paradise cast lines outward seek happiness in external pursuits. Thriving on thieving and …

 
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23 Sep

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Diane Mayr

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr Inspiration “Murphy Fix” Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Response “Taking Stock” Taking Stock Dubble Bubble! Lollipop! Junior Mints! Milky Way! Reeses! Skittles! M & Ms! It’s Halloween! My favorite day! Treasure fills our fuzzy rug. Tootsie Rolls march …

 
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23 Sep

Diane Mayr and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Diane Mayr and
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater

Diane Mayr Heat Response Campfire By Amy Ludwig VanDerwater Inspiration piece Flames are horses nickering flickering quickly over ash. Sparks in dark new horses gallop manes and tails aflash. Riding night so strong so bright they canter into coal. Leaving smoky cinders leaving hoof prints on …

 
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01 Jun

Diane Mayr and Heather Buckley

Diane Mayr and Heather Buckley

Diane Mayr Lost: 23 Million Acres of Farmland Cow photo courtesy Library of Congress, Earth photo courtesy NASA/DMSP Response The Dimensions By Heather Buckley Inspiration piece Behind my house, behind the sheep’s …

 
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26 Feb

Channie Greenberg and Diane Mayr

Channie Greenberg and Diane Mayr

Big E 2011 by Diane Mayr Inspiration piece   Carnival Provocations by Channie Greenberg Response piece   Carnival Provocations Carnival provocations, very harpy-like, beckon via cotton candy sweetness, The smell of doughnuts, impossibly deep-fried pickles, …

 
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26 Feb

Diane Mayr and Channie Greenberg

Diane Mayr and Channie Greenberg

Shall We Dance? by Diane Mayr Response piece   Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles by Channie Greenberg Inspiration piece    Parenting’s Saxophone Smiles When lads do play a piccolo, girls tweet upon a flute, Bray a brassy …

 
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