Margaret Mair and Amanda Miska
Margaret Mair “What Might Have Been” Acrylic on canvas Response What Lingers By Amanda Miska Inspiration piece When I met you, I was unhappily married and you were dating some tiny, …
John Isaacson and Amy Moffitt
John Isaacson and Amy Moffitt
John Isaacson Response History By Amy Moffitt Inspiration piece Everything bears marks of everything else. This street has tire tracks from where he hit his brakes too hard. That sidewalk still has chalk …
Sandy Coleman and Claire Guyton
Sandy Coleman and Claire Guyton
Sandy Coleman “Vanishing Act” Response Like the Chicken She Is By Claire Guyton Inspiration piece You, there, the lady in the pale green…. Yes, you! Come on down! Instead I sat down …
Beverly Hilbert and
Vicki VanArsdale
Beverly Hilbert and
Vicki VanArsdale
Beverly Hilbert Response Weeping Willow By Vicki VanArsdale Inspiration piece Proud I stand among the trees with beauty admired yet seldom touched My arms extend to welcome you and with each breath I reach for you You …
Amaryllis Holloway-Turman and Aimee Fullman
Amaryllis Holloway-Turman and Aimee Fullman
Amaryllis Holloway-Turman Candle of Hope Response Hope by Aimee Fullman Inspiration piece an echooooooing call that lights a path through darkness until morning comes
Sherri Rigby and Casey Murphy
Sherri Rigby and Casey Murphy
Sherri Rigby Victorious Response Casey Murphy Unforeseen Complications Inspiration Piece The Villain stood over the Hero’s lifeless body. “I did it,” he said, smiling. An arrow pierced through him. The Damsel …
Lisa Leibow and Erika Levison
Lisa Leibow and Erika Levison
The Brave Hearted Child (MP3) Erika Levison Inspiration piece (click on the Title to hear the music) . Everything New Is Old Again By Lisa Leibow Response By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Creamed corn …
Vicki VanArsdale and Beverly Hilbert
Vicki VanArsdale and Beverly Hilbert
Artist: Beverly Hilbert Inspiration Piece Winter Song By Vicki VanArsdale Response Children raised Husband, gone house cleaned chores, done Beautiful memories of a life well lived But what about me, where do I fit? With misty eyes and salted …
Buzz Kuhns and Betsy Wexler
Buzz Kuhns and Betsy Wexler
Buzz Kuhns Response The Lock By Betsy Wexler Inspiration piece The key slides in easily Not a single second of resistance Fits perfectly. And then I try to turn it It’s so quiet, I’m sure …
Amanda C. Brainerd
and Claire Guyton
Amanda C. Brainerd
and Claire Guyton
Amanda C. Brainerd Response Like the Chicken She Is By Claire Guyton Inspiration piece You, there, the lady in the pale green…. Yes, you! Come on down! Instead …
Lené Gary and Marla Deschenes
Lené Gary and Marla Deschenes
Lené Gary, Route 2 Response For the Love of Trees By Marla Deschenes Inspiration piece My mind cannot comprehend how so many people deny the earth its power Thinking that …
Sukia and Helen Lewis
Sukia and Helen Lewis
Sukia Response Getting the Job Done By Helen Lewis Inspiration piece 4:30 pm Tony sits behind the executive desk in his office, perched on the edge of the high-backed leather chair. …
Nick Winkworth and Lisa Nielsen
Nick Winkworth and Lisa Nielsen
The Speed of Love Nick Winkworth Response The Vaguery of Us Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece There is constant motion There is the speed at which you think you know me There are …
Lisa Nielsen and Nick Winkworth
Lisa Nielsen and Nick Winkworth
The Prospect of News Nick Winkworth Inspiration Piece The Jagged Key Lisa Nielsen Response The jagged key’s anxious dance I want a moratorium declared on the loitering of information and the morgue of …
Bonnie Lebesch and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Bonnie Lebesch and Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Bonnie Lebesch, I Heard a Lady Singing Response Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, I Heard a Lady Singing Inspiration piece I heard a lady singing in the bathroom at the store. I couldn’t understand the …
Marla Deschenes and Lene Gary
Marla Deschenes and Lene Gary
Lene Gary Inspiration River’s Edge by Marla Deschenes Response Chase me down to the river Through the changing trees Where we hid the saddest fishing boat The oars standing at attention camouflaged as …
Marla Deschenes and Sukia
Marla Deschenes and Sukia
Sukia Inspiration Goddess Power by Marla Deschenes Response From the part of me that sees from that eye placed so firmly by the goddess The eye of truth that shines as …
Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg
Grace Burns and Judy Weinberg
Judy Weinberg Inspiration Grace Burns Response Sole Survivor it was high tide as I whispered forevers enamored footprints and hope filled heart you chanted love never ceasing false footprints and deceptive heart I returned alone at high tide solitary footprints …
Channie Greenberg and Jane Hulstrunk
Channie Greenberg and Jane Hulstrunk
Morally Tall Friends: Eucalyptus’ Lessons Sturdy trees, such as cedars, acacias, myrtle, oleaster, cypress, boxwood, elms, Share no medical organizations, PTA committees, or scout troops with eucalyptus. As …
Jane Hulstrunk and Channie Greenberg
Jane Hulstrunk and Channie Greenberg
Response piece All of the Personal Fringes of Prayer © KJ Hannah Greenberg All of the personal fringes of prayer, those whispers, murmurs, rustlings, remain For affixing appreciation to …
Kimberly Erskine
and Brian MacDonald
Kimberly Erskine
and Brian MacDonald
Brian MacDonald Inspiration Piece Hidden Secrets By Kimberly Erskine Response It was midnight on a warm Wednesday evening in May. Most people in Greenwood were fast asleep, but not the …
Erika Levison and Lisa Leibow
Erika Levison and Lisa Leibow
Nameless Wanderers (click link to download mp4) “Nameless Wanderers” By Erika Levison Acoustic Song Response House shakes, the body breaks, and mother lies again prostrate On a bleach white hospital bed Parents paint …
Hildie S. Block and Helen Lewis
Hildie S. Block and Helen Lewis
Helen Lewis Inspiration Butterfly Hildie S. Block Response “She says she saw them.” I’ve walked into a heated discussion, and wait to listen. I stare at my fingernails. They are a …
Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan
Tora Estep and Sharon Deegan
Tora Estep “In the Garden” Response Sharon Deegan Inspiration piece Are you ready to face the feast my soul companion? Pull off the boots made for silent marching through the night? Well …
Lisa Kilhefner and Sukia
Lisa Kilhefner and Sukia
Sukia Inspiration Piece Lisa Kilhefner Response No flock On your wing again, I hang on, again, india ink in a fountain pen. I see you only in this way – a bird that …