Fractured Union By Christina Brockett Response Beneath the Ailing Cypress By Donna Kendall Inspiration Piece In the morning, before the shots rang out, Giordi Baldini told his wife, Chiara, that he …
Cheryl Leibovitz Blue Flowers Response Untitled By Indrina Kanth Inspiration piece Nia received the note in the mail. It was from her stepmother, and it was just that – a note …
Janet Yandik Response An Adolescent’s Didactic Lament: Round Pegs, Square Holes By KJ Hannah Greenberg Inspiration piece You teach no circles, explain no diameters, work radii-free, While my growth’s never a …
Rusty Lynn 7 come 11 Inspiration Piece To The Country By Quentin Paquette Response Those clouds are dark like a curtain ahead. Looks like it might rain. (“Rain? Really? I don’t think …
Janet Yandik Response Winter fog on the hill By Douglas Pugh Inspiration piece Spectred farewells hang between the boughs winter leaking slowly back to it’s skies misted in reluctant parting trailing slick where lingering grip clung onto gnarled old …
Lisa Pimental the portal Mixed media on canvas Inspiration piece this is the portal and the place that is always here, fitting the wings you wear but cannot as yet …
Christina Brockett Silent Witness Inspiration Piece Abiding Venus By Donna Kendall Response From where she’s poised in her Third Age, Glimpses into her heart, Confessions scrawled, memories sketched, Vows consumed, depleted, gone – Tiny laughter, …
Michelle Wallace Inspiration Piece Rus VanWestervelt More Than Words Response “I know you keep saying you are nothing, but I find that very hard to believe.” They rode on the subway …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien Gated Summer Inspiration piece . Beyond the Locked Gate By Annmarie Lockhart Response . You always went first through every opened door, so tell me about that last one, the one that’s locked …
Bridget Fahey O’Brien I see you 2! Response . Hauntings By Annmarie Lockhart Inspiration piece . My little ones dream that the souls of dead ladybugs haunt their closets and lurk under their beds. . They are scared of ladybugs who fly away home, …
BR Belletryst Response A Soldier’s Life By Carl Rauscher Inspiration Piece Major Stephano loved war. He loved waking to the sound of gunfire, eating cold rations from a can with …
BR Belletryst Response Where Is Spring? –A Poem By Phyllis Weissman Inspiration Piece Calendar claims it is spring, Mother Nature disagrees. Cold winds blow, Come flurries and snow. Flowers take peeks, They play hide and …
Margot Eyring One Thing Collage Inspiration piece One Thing By Kathleen Finn Jordan Response One thing shimmering in the face of time The timeless infinity of space Swirling nothingness in the face of Endless exploration The …
Frank Gibson Balloons and Moon Inspiration Piece DJ Asson Shelter Response I stretched my legs and looked out over the retaining wall. I call it a retaining wall, but tonight …
Gwynne Mason Hoel Pond Canvas made of handmade paper, made by the artist, kakishibu dye,silk paper, mixed media Response Morning on Hoel Pond Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration Piece No sound but the gentle ripples against …
Jim Doran: One Inspiration Piece Robin Peace: Major Tom Response “Here am I floating Round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there’s nothing I can do.” – From …
Phillipp Mellon Inspiration Piece Stoic Eagle Jail-like suburbs crowd out your habitat You don’t care; again you come back Instead of moving on, you pair up and thrive Your usual two …
Amy Souza Inspiration piece Tom W. Lewis Response — — Horticultural Subjunctive I broke my bones on prophecy And ate the book she handed me. Just another piece of pie. I’m waiting For the …
oxen1 Tami Cohen inspiration piece ….. ….. brutal Joanna Lee response ….. A gasping daylight spends its penultimate dying ray on a pair pushed already into shadow by hanks of rough coiled rope strung out behind like breathless …
Kapulco “…cascade quenched in plunge pool’s kiss; fern-dappled dells where Magic sleeps.” Response Solstice By Myfanwy Fox Inspiration piece Come, climb dizzy, heated summer heights, while eagles soar through lapis skies; sun-drenched days melt …
Amanda Brainerd Response Indian Summer By Joanne Lozar Glenn Inspiration piece When you say you love me, say it on a Wednesday morning, after your fruit and cereal, after you have met your …
Monthly Archives: September 2010