Author: statenislandlisa

Lisa Nielsen is a single mom living in staten island who is using poetry as a means to get her groove back. She is doing her best to get the words out of her journal and into the world.

06 Mar

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Lisa Nielsen “The Lake Has Two Faces” Inspiration piece The Beautiful Ugly By Jay Young Gerard Response Joan Crawford had blue eyes. Her real name was Lucille LaSueur. She was a …

 
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06 Dec

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerar “It Was Never A Dream” Response It’s That Dream By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece It’s that dream where you fly and the world is neither small nor large,  angels …

 
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06 Dec

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard “Rutherford” Inspiration piece Glass Houses By Lisa Nielsen Response Resolutions delayed and thinned by fatigue Fatigue stalled by breathing in the dust That lines the mirror Shadowed and necessary edges sharpened Everyone is …

 
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02 Jun

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard
and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Puppy Inspiration piece Both Sides of That Face By Lissa Nielsen Response I’ve been talking out both sides of my mouth, compromising the urge to flee with the imitation of …

 
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01 Jun

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Holes Aren’t Necessarily Round Response The Holes in Our Story By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece They say you never really know how damaged someone is until you try to …

 
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02 Mar

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Gerard Young Response Everywhere I Walk acrylic, charcoal and graphite Lisa Nielsen Inspiration The Lonely Road is Everywhere I Walk Like flavored lip gloss and southern comfort, you bring back decades that …

 
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02 Mar

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Inspiration Piece Towards the Light acrylic, oil, pastel and graphite on paper Lisa Nielsen Response Tongues I Speak In God’s plans don’t fret We’re all just mangled marionettes I’d split the …

 
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07 Dec

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Tout ira bien (All will be well) a diptych executed in oil, pastel, graphite Response The fist of desire has long remained clenched By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece Clouds, vociferous …

 
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07 Dec

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and
Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Radiant Child Inspiration piece Satellite of Love By Lisa Nielsen Response Satellite of love I poked holes in the sun, scrutinized the stars (I know you hear me) radiant child floats in …

 
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01 Jun

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Unentitled Inspiration Lisa Nielsen Unentitled Response I wear my loneliness as a cape Draping it like a testimonial to my endurance Another day beleaguered and waiting As mountainous as sunlight. Now we …

 
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01 Jun

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Rooms Response Lisa Nielsen Bitter Re-enactment Inspiration The warning lights, red and blinking dazzled like an invitation to a cautionary tale. my catechism is worn out and weary: “don’t’ let him bring you down,” but I’m …

 
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02 Mar

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Lisa Nielsen and Jay Young Gerard

Jay Young Gerard Response The Inevitable Forward oils and water based inks on layers of canvas and tissue that are affixed to canvas Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece I Came to Bring …

 
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02 Mar

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

Lisa Nielsen and Kaylee Savage-Wright

  Kaylee Savage-Wright Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Damaged Goods He has insinuated himself into my breath, ravaging my desire for freedom Just to maintain takes every ounce of sorrow, is our newest game but …

 
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02 Mar

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

Kaylee Savage-Wright and Lisa Nielsen

  Kaylee Savage-Wright Inspiration Piece A la Folie Lisa Nielsen Response Bliss Hisses Its Whisper You want me to wear you like a cape, for the rest of my days. I take that enticement …

 
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02 Mar

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard and Lisa Nielsen

Jay Young Gerard Inspiration Piece Self-Infliction multi-media (oils, pastels, collage, canvas affixed to foam board) Lisa Nielsen Response Glistening Like Whitewash The molten lava of your ambiguous soul reaches across the counter to …

 
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08 Dec

Barbara Kongsbak and Lisa Nielsen

Barbara Kongsbak and Lisa Nielsen

Barbara Kongsbak Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response Swimming without water my hips, unconfined celebrate my thighs cradle lullabies and my arms, orchestrate a clever river with leftover tears This is hopefulness after heartache has …

 
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07 Sep

Mary-Antonia Lombardi and Lisa Nielsen

Mary-Antonia Lombardi and Lisa Nielsen

  Mary-Antonia Lombardi The Dream Inspiration piece Ye of Little Faith By Lisa Nielsen Response The endurance of loneliness can be found in the melodious wingspan of an angel, crooning without regard to my joy or …

 
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07 Sep

Lisa Nielsen and Mary-Antonia Lombardi

Lisa Nielsen and Mary-Antonia Lombardi

Mary-Antonia Lombardi Proper Burial Response They Don’t All Deserve Proper Burials By Lisa Nielsen Inspiration piece they don’t all deserve proper burials:  you burn their careful gestures on a barbecue like …

 
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11 Dec

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece The Unforgiven the history of your neglect unfolds over the phone. I am done obliging and deciphering the language of your discontent. I once hoped its interpretation …

 
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08 Dec

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Nielsen and Lisa Pimental

Lisa Pimental Inspiration Piece Not Quite Fire & Brimstone By Lisa Nielsen Response I thought my mistakes would amount to more than killing time, so I pretend it’s all tragic happenstance …

 
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23 Sep

Lisa Nielsen and Mary-Antonia Lombardi

Lisa Nielsen and Mary-Antonia Lombardi

Mary-Antonia Lombardi The Blue Woman Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response This is What She’s Longed For She knows this is not how she’s supposed to feel, wanting more than to sing her masterpiece She was …

 
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28 Feb

Lisa Nielsen and Geraldine Ayers

Lisa Nielsen and Geraldine Ayers

Geraldine Ayers Holding Onto Fog Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece things i should have said i should have told you that there is a web of lies masquerading as veins beneath my skin and …

 
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28 Feb

Geraldine Ayers and Lisa Nielsen

Geraldine Ayers and Lisa Nielsen

Geraldine Ayers Untitled Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response what’s left of remorse when nothing was left you always found something else to take music once vibrated on my skin, but rhapsody-white strings bind me …

 
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26 Feb

Frank Cianciotti and Lisa Nielsen

Frank Cianciotti and Lisa Nielsen

Frank Cianciotti Response Lisa Nielsen Inspiration Piece Memorialized (Again) we zigzagged thru traffic your gasoline breath over bursting knuckles anxious to get to the memorial like it was a disney ride parents told children not …

 
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26 Feb

Lisa Nielsen and Frank Cianciotti

Lisa Nielsen and Frank Cianciotti

Frank Cianciotti Inspiration Piece Lisa Nielsen Response: adrift again i scattered you into the ocean to say good-bye and then came back to find you i expected you to be waiting but i can’t …

 
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