Jone Rush MacCulloch “Portals” Inspiration piece Windows By Bianca Schrader Response There’s many different ways to be, stand out in a crowd, be as still as a tree. No longer burdened, now I …
Jane Rennalls Mixed media Inspiration piece Rituals for the Living By Lisa Deshantz-Cook Response Promise me these things. No, wait. Promise yourself these things: That you will celebrate the raucous and impossible …
Jane Rennalls Mixed media Response Ode to a July Moon By Lisa DeShantz-Cook Inspiration piece I love you better in the empty sky, in bones of rivers, spiny drops of lake spray …
Jennifer Fendya Response Olympic Skate By Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration piece Slide, glide, Twist and leap Ice crunches bends are deep Stepping free and music sings Skaters fly on cashmere wings Silken costumes sharp …
“Laundry Song in G” By Amy Rogers Nazarov Response Capo 4, C position Verse 1 C G D G That bulb burned out last winter C G D The dust is piled high C …
“Tower of London” (Click link for YouTube) Music by Amy Rogers Nazarov Inspiration piece Life and Art By Angi Lewis Response First, there’s this: a journey, a setting out Then the rhythm of walking Then some …
Betty Nichols Inspiration piece Vilomah By Ash Martins Response Aila knelt, weeping with the ancient willow tree. Her hands clawed at the musty soil. Gingerly, she lowered the tiny form, …
Quinzee the Artist Untitled Pencil Response Black Space By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My people are the cool dark vast The clap and clank of tom drum and tambourine across time and interstellar truth We rhythm …
Quinzee the Artist “Aunti” Graphic art Inspiration piece Emergence By Darice M. Jones Response I came forth from the deep, dark, cool blue(s), purples, and teals of an asylum orb up in …
Jennifer Fendya Response AC Is Too Expensive By Jewel Beth Davis Inspiration piece I was sitting alone in the hospital ward with my Aunt Pauline. I say alone because Pauline …
Bianca Schrader Finding Space Mixed media Response Hemispheres of Separation By Fernanda Valentino Inspiration piece Half a planet separates us, Space and time become confused, You awaken. I drift out of consciousness. The day to …
Betty Nichols Response Shipwrecked Spaghetti By Ash Martins Inspiration piece What I wouldn’t give for one last family dinner with mom’s homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs Garlic bread toasted just right Chilled …
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 …
Shaun Jones Acrylic on canvas and collage Inspiration piece Slay By Darice M. Jones Response Sometimes I have to adjust My spiritual eyes To know what I am looking at Whether the suffering in …
By Shaun Jones “First Rite” Response Mohair By Darice M. Jones Inspiration piece My name is Bimi and I am co-leader of global Rights of Passage ceremony on the Earth’s parent …
Jone Rush MacCulloch Temples Response Temples By Bianca Schrader Inspiration piece All things beautiful All things sacred All things worshiped, holy in quiet spaces. Sun-dappled anything. Curls of steam out of a favorite cup. …
http://getsparked.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/videoplayback.mp4 Sarah Pizer-Bush “Yesterday Project” Video collage & voiceover Inspiration piece Me, Myself, and Tomorrow By Darice Jones Response Who would have thought that we’d be here, inside a whole new way of …
Sarah Pizer-Bush Watercolor on canvas Response Missing Daughters of the Movement By Darice Jones Inspiration piece Latasha with the big amber eyes and glowing almost-black brown-colored skin descendant of intersecting activisms of remixed …
Sarah Pizer-Bush “Lighting Rituals, Photo/Graphic” Response The Problem with Birthdays By Darice Jones Inspiration piece “Why do you think it is that some people really don’t like their birthdays?” My work BFF …
Darice M. Jones “That’s a Stretch” Enhanced photography Inspiration piece Before the Bloom By Sarah Pizer-Bush Response stretching covers across body seeking comfort seeking warmth now is the time to pull all the way in divine …
Sharon A Murphy Spring’s Arrival Mixed media Response Till Spring Sings By Dale Leffler Inspiration piece Now there is nothing no words on the wing no voice in the wind no color at the berm. Only …
Jennifer Fendya Inspiration piece Mystery of the Peregrine Falcon By Jewel Beth Davis Response A dead bird lay in my path as I stepped out onto my wood planked porch. …
Sharon A. Murphy Inspiration piece Untitled By Dale Leffler Response She, half Madonna Negro, half Tara Buddha beauty personified in peaceful repose. Upon her head crown of flowers yellow and red though her golden eyes were closed all worldly compassion arose From below her center throat inscription read …
Juleen Johnson Inspiration piece This Old Bird Writes Something By Missy Lambert Response It’s not easy to write when I feel like an old bird that has to dip its …
Juleen Johnson Response Ragged Heart Song By Missy Lambert Inspiration piece Can’t see where you are now nothing familiar, lost in your own house. Your grip is slipping, no foothold to be …