Margaret Mair and Alisa Bliss
Poetry by Alisa Bliss, original art by Margaret Mair
Poetry by Alisa Bliss, original art by Margaret Mair
Michelle Wallace “Flow” Response Alice Flows By …
Kristi Conley Resilient Creatures Meet Technology Response Information Technology By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece The click of the keyboard fills the otherwise silent house This house without heart Without softest whispers to twitch …
What’s Wrong with Right Now_(mp3) By David Berman Inspiration piece Above and Below By Grace Burns Response Party above – Bursts of burnt orange, indigo blue and glowing green illuminate the horizon with their …
Jane Hulstrunk Response Hive By Lauren B. Flax Inspiration Piece They assured me that the hive was dead. With each strike of the sledgehammer, pieces of plaster fall away from …
Kristi Conley Pianos Inspiration piece Forgotten Music By Marla Deschenes Response Forgotten music The casualties of faster, cooler cars Rock star hair, and screeching tight guitars. Casualties of nothing more Than popular and whim. The sunshine …
Amanda Whitener Inspiration piece Forever Perfect Val Bonney Response There was a standard, before you left, of perfection surpassing all other degrees of beauty held to be perfect. Plump-cheeked flesh more downy-soft than any peach and rosebud lips; eyes …
Frank Gibson Response Evolution By Neil Ellman Inspiration piece When there is no life In empty seas Desolation lives With possibilities Of single cells That multiply Becoming multitudes Becoming eyes and mouths From fins that swim To feet that …
Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Response Piece Hand Over Hand So there it is, the challenge do I still have the hand strength, shoulder strength, the strength of will? Hand over hand, do …
Greg Adkins Dale Leffler Inspiration Piece My Path My path has not been straight. I have stumbled over many stones, lost my way too often to share without shame and …
Withdrawal By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece When the Blue Angel walked into the throne room to check on the Creator, he was concerned to see Him reclining …
Gwynne Mason He Said He Was No Longer Interested In Me Handmade plant fiber papers made and decorated by the artist, mounted on a handmade silk tapestry, mixed media. Inspiration Piece Sea …
Jane Hulstrunk Inspiration Piece Lauren B. Flax Response Piece Flight There are so many ways of taking flight Paper wings turn glassy in the glare of summer day Silky wings fold thickly …
Castle with Sun By Frank Gibson Inspiration Piece A Goddess Once By Neil Ellman Response Where a fortress stood Beside the alien sea Arrogant towers Turrets pointing To the sky As if in prayer Defend their gods And …
Woodland Sprite By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece Sunset By Carl Rauscher Response She appeared in my room after the nurse departed and sat on the edge of the bed, her …
Photograph By BR Belletryst Inspiration Piece For the Love of Liana By Phyllis Weissman Response Liana stood on the deck of her beautiful home waiting for the love of her life, …
View Through The Geraniums By Christina Brockett Inspiration Piece Perspective By Maureen O’Donnell Response Piece Jack The dinghy rocks gently under his weight. Jack nestles into the small cockpit, meant for one …
Janet Yandik Inspiration piece Vitreous Recollections: That Summer’s Glaze By KJ Hannah Greenberg Response Familiar delight, miniature cyncephalus, Who expertly sidestepped a butterfly-looking leaf, Amidst further crunchy, colorful tree debris, While scuffling new …
Michelle Wallace Inspiration piece More Than My Parts By Kim Dollar Response I’ve been bitten and I’ve been slapped Held more children than fit in my lap Had my belly round and …
What the flak am I doing on this Lude-forsaken planet?
Janet Yandik Inspiration piece Painted lady By Douglas Pugh Response you are the quiet one hanging in the background at summers party sipping and dipping where nectars melt hides best no raucous trills like karaoke jays, no …
Jayme Cawthern, Untitled-oil pastel, graphite & gouache on bristol Response Piece Blasphemy by Amanda Miska Inspiration Piece If we are created in God’s image, does that make God a masochist? Because …
Amanda Whitener Girl with Birds Inspiration piece An Examination of Amanda Whitener’s “Girl with Birds” in Words by Donna Gagnon Response Examination #1 The sky was full of crows. Normally, my mother could …
Jayme Cawthern, untitled Inspiration Piece The Bibliophile Files by Amanda Miska Response A conversation from the floor of a living room that looks more like a small library, every wall …
Twiggy Moon by Kapulco inspiration piece The Moon’s Names by Myfanwy Fox response The moon has many guises – silver, harvest, man-in-the, full, new – and as many stories, folktales. There are no evil …
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