Pharoah Bolding and Irene Plax
Pharoah Bolding Inspiration Piece Irene Plax Response I fell asleep listening to the President being interviewed on the radio. “Mr. President, what about the videos of peaceful protesters being attacked …
Russ McIntosh and Gabriel Shanks
Russ McIntosh and Gabriel Shanks
Russ McIntosh vertical horizon Digital Photo Illustration Response DONDUKOV BOULEVARD By Gabriel Shanks Inspiration piece No more hiding. We can fall away, slip from sight, even in the middle of the city, and if you …
Russ McIntosh and Cheryl Aubin
Russ McIntosh and Cheryl Aubin
Russ McIntosh Comforting Warmth Digital Photo Illustration Response In Prayer, A Way Out Of Sorrow By Cheryl Aubin Inspiration piece I stood in church, my head bowed, my tears falling. My friend Donna had …
Cheryl Aubin and Russ McIntosh
Cheryl Aubin and Russ McIntosh
Russ McIntosh Deadcandance Digital Photo Illustration Inspiration piece Dancing By Cheryl Aubin Response Dancing She lay down on top of the graves, arms stretched out, reaching as if she could embrace those who lie …
Neil Ellman and
Jack Hernandez
Neil Ellman and
Jack Hernandez
Jack Hernandez “A Song of Endurance” Inspiration piece My Lonely Bones By Neil Ellman Response Smother me under your weight. Drink me in. My lonely bones cannot escape. My eyes cannot forget your face. Why have yours forgotten mine? Why do …
dani harris and Ainsley Allmark
dani harris and Ainsley Allmark
Ainsley Allmark Inspiration piece heart of stone by dani harris Response . . a heart set in stone ~ once broken asunder ~ what loss could have caused it to shatter so? the pieces carefully put back …
Ainsley Allmark and dani harris
Ainsley Allmark and dani harris
. . Ainsley Allmark ~ Look Deep Response piece Haiga . . together by dani harris inspiration piece . . gentle the breeze dancing round us warm the sunlight caressing our faces soft the feel of your lips sweet the taste of your kiss tender the touch of your fingertips love and …
Brian MacDonald and Elizabeth Cordes
Brian MacDonald and Elizabeth Cordes
Brian MacDonald Response Elizabeth Cordes Inspiration piece Snow falls about gently like dandelion seeds in a warm spring breeze. It seems impossible from a cloudless sky. A misty red along the horizon fades upward into pink, …
Brian MacDonald and Paul Hunter
Brian MacDonald and Paul Hunter
Brian MacDonald Response Paul Hunter Inspiration piece Whenever Archangels are slumming, they like to play Jazz. Gabriel, of course, plays trumpet and Michael plays saxophone. Raphael plays bass, And Uriel plays the drums. I guess …
Amy Alley and Caroline Davies
Amy Alley and Caroline Davies
She walks both worlds by Caroline Davies Response She walks the red earth, her bare feet connect to the land. She throws a whip of stars across the dark sky, draws lines …
Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Nocturne, Saugutuck River Matthew Levine Inspiration The Gloaming By Robert Haydon Jones Response “You can’t beat this view,” Paul Robinson said. “I can see up and down the river right from …
Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Robert Haydon Jones and Matthew Levine
Point of No Return Matthew Levine Response The Good Nazi By Robert Haydon Jones Inspiration The Weekapaug Inn is gone now. It stood on the shore of a secluded cove near …
Paula B. Lantz and
Amy L. VanDerwater
Paula B. Lantz and
Amy L. VanDerwater
Landscape Mixed Media on Canvas Paula B. Lantz Inspiration Piece The Water Tower The Water Tower in our town is cotton candy blue. It looks down on my neighborhood. It watches what we …
Amy L. VanDerwater
and Paula B. Lantz
Amy L. VanDerwater
and Paula B. Lantz
Boulders in my Heart Paula B. Lantz Response White Fields I hike these white fields uncertain what I’ll find under boulders in my heart in the treehouse of my mind. I hike these …
Gary Hewitt and Jim Tretick
Gary Hewitt and Jim Tretick
JIM TRETICK Inspiration Golden Paradise by Gary Hewitt Response I’ve never come across a ghost ship before, let alone two. We stand and listen. There is no sound except …
Maggie Daniel Caldwell and Val Bonney
Maggie Daniel Caldwell and Val Bonney
In Two Minds by Val Bonney Response Once A Beauty by Maggie Daniel Caldwell Jane pushed aside the overgrown tangle of passion vine and willow branches to reach the woman’s …
Marla Deschenes and Jack Hernandez
Marla Deschenes and Jack Hernandez
Jack Hernandez Untitled By Marla Deschenes How do words become feelings? These sounds of self-expression falling from my lips. How does this cacophony of phrasing make any sense Against The burning of …
Cara Moulds and Anne Marie Perconti
Cara Moulds and Anne Marie Perconti
Anne Marie Perconti charcoal on canvas Inspiration Hollow at the Core Cara Moulds Response I am A pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floor In death’s other kingdom Of my own design For I And …
Cara Moulds and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Cara Moulds and Kathleen Finn Jordan
Cara Moulds, Soul Mates, photograph Response Soul Mates Kathleen Finn Jordan Inspiration Ambush of the self In rush of blood and thump of heart Breathless moments frenzied All a unique part Of the love …
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 …
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 …
Ray Sharp and Sandy Coleman
Ray Sharp and Sandy Coleman
Sandy Coleman Inspiration piece Ray Sharp Response Calypso By Ray Sharp Cerulean blue hat in a tangerine sky, My pussy cat my chocolate cream pie. Orange sliced fat-a-ways segments clock the hours, Chopin polonaise slow dance …
Hildie S. Block and Caroline A. Evey
Hildie S. Block and Caroline A. Evey
Caroline A. Evey Inspiration piece Life Insurance Hildie S. Block Response Howard Tao who speaks slowly and with a “cured” stutter’s affectation asks me when I will die. That’s not exactly …
Athena Dixon and Brian MacDonald
Athena Dixon and Brian MacDonald
VESPA by BRIAN MACDONALD Vesper by Athena Dixon Response Across the square a stout brown leg swung up and over the seat of the Vespa. Fluttering in the breeze her skirt, …
Lisa Eldridge and Kristi Conley-Brockie
Lisa Eldridge and Kristi Conley-Brockie
Kristi Conley-Brockie Once Upon a Bow-Wow Inspiration piece A Sonnet from a Dog to His Mistress Lisa Eldridge Response How long before I met you did I long To hear your gentle …