Author: kjordan466

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Julie Christensen

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Julie Christensen

Julie Christensen Inspiration piece Wide Open Wonder By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The slopes and angles kiss the eye The light and shadow taunts The sparseness hungers for colors bright To bathe, enliven …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece City Sponge By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response A big sponge—I slurp up the city Borne on concrete streets Shaded by looming skyscrapers The never-ending hustle and bustle Slinked into my …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marisa Bevington

Marisa Bevington Inspiration piece Does She Step Out? By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sleeping yurts dot the land plane As inhabitants step out Wondrous colors and sweet light stain All looking forward, looking …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jennifer Fendya

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jennifer Fendya

Jennifer Fendya “County Bountiful” (2022) Inspiration piece Through the Lens By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response What nestles in this mask of bliss As lettuce limey poses Like living necklace snuggled in Among the veg …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Missy Lambert

Missy Lambert paper with acrylics, oil, pastels and pencil Inspiration piece Gracefull By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Grace sweeps the sky and dives to earth Embracing inspiring and overflowing wide Lodges in hearts …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Alone with the Sea By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response piece Alone with the sea, the warm sand massaging the feet From the wonder wander of the traveling …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jonathan Ottke

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Jonathan Ottke

Jonathan Ottke “Swimming in the Blue Lilies, Blue Tara” Inspiration piece Swimming in Blue Lilies By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Dive and swivel and spread arms wide And swiff and snuzzle the …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Pamela Underhill

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Pamela Underhill

Pamela Underhill Inspiration piece Spiked Outreach By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Spike like pronged edge reaching for what Sharpened edges crying out yet pushing off Bursts of light, sea, places to run, …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Betty Nichols

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Betty Nichols

Betty Nichols Inspiration Piece Geyser By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Deep in the sparkling sea depths – a surge Concussion of sound and thrusts upward fly And life soon emerges in a …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Timmy McKay

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Timmy McKay

Timmy McKay “Mariposa” Inspiration Mariposa (Butterfly) Alight By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Sharp contrasting color blocks Butterfly alight True authentic brush strong In a field quite tight Each shaft caught on contoured plane Boundaries without fear No …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Darice Jones

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Darice Jones

Darice Jones “Setting with Verve” Inspiration piece Mind Screen By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Since Covid blasted into my space My mind screen’s been the same A sparkling sea … a warming sun A …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Amy Souza

Amy Souza Inspiration piece Everything Will Be O.K. By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The explosion of the isolation will soon come                     …

 

Rusty Lynn and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Rusty Lynn and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Rusty Lynn “Bubbling Sea” Response Listening to Crosby, Stills, and Nash, The Captain, and thinking…… Take This Stranger From My Boat By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Dreaming of drifting in a …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Rusty Lynn

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Rusty Lynn

Rusty Lynn “Surprise” Inspiration piece The Cycle and the Circle By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Draping blues with shocks of starlight float to earth Punctuated by drill like shooting edge sharpened branches Reaching …

 

Marilyn Ackerman
and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Marilyn Ackerman
and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Marilyn Ackerman Response Flatten the Curve By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Piece This dark and cloudy day in time of isolation Mimics the inward – outward silence As all stay in to …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marilyn Ackerman

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Marilyn Ackerman

Marilyn Ackerman “Covid Cat” Inspiration piece Covid Cat By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Covid Cat – copiously churlish The haunting harmonies of the chanting birds and rustling trees Usually his music of the …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jonathan Ottke

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jonathan Ottke

Sun and Flower Jonathan Ottke Inspiration Earthy Lapis Kathleen Finn Jordan Response The seeds sleep Closeted in cold, damp soil Recovering strength sapped by red-hot days Of summer sun snorting their fragrance, licking their …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Diane Mayr

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Diane Mayr

Diane Mayr “All Night Long” Inspiration piece Cat Rap By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Grandma Pussycat in a straight-backed chair Playing guitar meows fill the air all night long since she’s nocturnally set Meow …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Holly Hinkle

Holly Hinkle Inspiration piece Woman Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Piece What anger in these eyes or perhaps indignation not a first world problem me thinks her shoulders suggest an argument that is weighty a …

 

Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Jules Rolfe and Kathleen Finn Jordan

Jules Rolfe Response piece Short Poem Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece I love the short poem It draws the picture Sculpts the moment Captures the feeling… Leaving beauty, awe, tears or chuckles In its wake I …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jules Rolfe

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Jules Rolfe

Jules Rolfe Inspiration piece Patterned View Kathleen Finn Jordan Response piece Evening falls and footfalls tred the path along the beach Expanse of water wraps around as eyes like arms spread, …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Brigitte Nowers

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Brigitte Nowers

“Phoenix” Brigitte Nowers Inspiration piece Toile Intérieure By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Deep down canvas Swirling, twirling inner urges Dynamic tsunami of fragmentation id, ego, superego dance Play bursting into color Spin and surface The depths of …

 

Brigitte Nowers and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Brigitte Nowers and
Kathleen Finn Jordan

Brigitte Nowers Response The Cabin By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece It’s quiet here Fall is creeping our way As trees are tunneling Leaves are changing their clothes slowly After shaking their arms in …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Anya Drapkin

Kathleen Finn Jordan
and Anya Drapkin

“In Mutual Empowerment” Anya Drapkin Inspiration piece Outside In By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Eyes peer out from seaside scape as Wholes consume the unity of earth The fish are swimming as the …

 

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Martha Harris

Kathleen Finn Jordan and Martha Harris

Martha Harris “Mary’s Little Angel” Inspiration piece Angelic Feline By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response Angelic feline floating in the sky That women hold up half of Independent – apart from The hosts of clouds …