Cheryl Leibovitz Response Perfect By Helen Whittaker Inspiration piece I always thought my perfect date would go like this (well more or less): we’d fly to Paris in his jet, he’d wear a …
Peg Bruhn Mom’s Kitchen Window Inspiration piece Another Morning By Marge Amey Response Another morning….this one is a sunny one, the kind I love. What could be better than a gloriously …
Susan Feller Response street corners By Joan McNerney Inspiration piece street corners enveloped in exhaust fumes slate-like formations wait for light to change her carbon dress his face of ashes crushed within this granite body we eat grey food pulling empty air …
Susan Feller Inspiration piece Lost Landscape By Joan McNerney Response I am driving down a hill without name on an unnumbered highway. This road transforms into a snake winding around coiled on hair pin turns. See …
MM Panas Dive-Bombing Acrylic and charcoal on paper, 24 x 36 inches Response Air By JoAnn Moore Inspiration piece Somewhere, blocks away, a swing is swinging and, because it is Sunday the groan of the long …
MM Panas 22 Mixed media on paper Inspiration piece I Never Told Anyone By JoAnn Moore Response I once wept uncontrollably …………after hitting a butterfly; …………and like a cliché, …………danced on your grave …………when I heard …
MM Panas 22 Mixed media on paper Inspiration piece John Panas Photograph of 2010 winter storm Absent By Mary L. Tabor Response The camera was invented in 1839 by arguably Fox Talbot—some say it …
MM Panas Response Sine Die By Mary L. Tabor Inspiration piece Excerpt from The Woman Who Never Cooked, Mid-List Press, 2006, First Series Award; previously published Hayden’s Ferry Review, winner …
Sukia Inspiration piece Packing for the Future By Barbara Bever Response The pain in my back, the crick in my neck and the pinch in my shoulder are begging me …
Rusty Lynn Night Visions Mixed media on paper, 11 x 14 inches Response Crickets By Marla Deschenes Inspiration Piece The quiet is broken only by the sound of crickets and the cars going …
Yolanda Palis Inspiration Piece Truth By Agnieszka Rawa Response Smothered by words Submissively silent Imprisoned inside Seemingly frail And while they speak of another You hide in my belly Weakened by lies Veiled in confusion Losing ground Defying the …
Yolanda Palis Response The Time Warrior By Agnieszka Rawa Inspiration piece In the Sierras out West A giant still stands From times prehistoric With strong massing limbs Of rust-reddish bark And scars in its armor From …
God of War by Lee Transue (MP3) Response God of War By Lisa Marie Basile Inspiration piece I am Mixcoatl, do you not see? Where your tongue travels up into my red and …
Sheri Leseberg Response The First Week of Life By Paula Whitacre Inspiration piece “In my new robe this morning – someone else.” —Basho, 1644-1694 This someone is a mother who has just given birth. She …
Lauren Silberman Inspiration piece Destiny By Cheryl Somers Aubin Response She looks at the light trying to force its way into her room around the shades, strands of light like …
Vita Sims Inspiration piece A Dream Accomplished By Frann Haykin Response She switched off the car engine, And gazed out at the view. Drawing close to the mountains Was what she’d come here …
Brian MacDonald Inspiration piece The long last train By Maureen O’Donnell Response She sat on a bench at the train station, long neck stretched like an ostrich’s: upright now, ready …
Gabriel Shanks Inspiration Piece Kumani Gantt Response What Shakti Said to an Expanding Universe In the next adaptation pigs will fly. I promise you that. Ah Shiva, don’t you remember – something …
Amy Souza Acrylic and tulle on paper Response Lessons From a Squirrel By Lisa Lipkind Leibow Inspiration piece Ms. Ward asks, “Do you know why you’re here?” Cody removes her MP3 earbuds …
Amy Souza Acrylic, charcoal, and tinfoil on canvas Response Sardine Machine (Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest) By Adam Cornford Inspiration piece They shoal in sweep formation, swarming gleam with tail-flick wave through smooth …
Vita Sims Sunrise Acrylic, 16 x 20 inches Response Untitled By Lauren Flax Inspiration Piece This love, a roughly knitted blanket tangles between my bare feet as I lay awake and unravel like a lopsided …
Vita Sims Relationships Watercolor on yupo, 20″ x 26″ Response Touch And Go (A poetic tale) By Frann Haykin Inspiration piece Sometimes we write a story; like the daylight beyond a door. Where bonded …
Cara Mayo Inspiration Piece Summerhill Park By Lisa Reutzel Response I was only seven years old when Momma died, but I still remember the last time I saw her, standing …
Sheri Leseberg Inspiration piece Paris By Paula Whitacre Response Her: Madame de Simoneau. Thin-necked, tall, aristocratic. A young widow whose husband was killed in a motorboat accident when they lived …
Rosemary Luckett Held Inspiration Piece Held By Dale Leffler Response I was held in your loving eyes at the very beginning, my genesis. I was watched over as I developed, failed, fallen …