Poetry and Art
Poetry and visual art presented together by Open Arts Forum contributors. Explore mixed media in Fulcrum of a Rose (for Kelsey), music and drawing in Morning Sketch, 57, Cloudy, and image and brief narrative in Crossing Orion. Follow the credited creators to discover more of their work.
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Poetry and ArtMorning Sketch, 52, rain 75%
I’m tired of listening to trees so forlorn being picked at in every season whinging like what’d you want you popped those cherries, plums,…
Poetry and ArtClimate Change
come by our islands effortless circles of life lick your pork-greased, buffet fingers park your passenger ships in little harbours ~hashtag thumbnail paradise~ more…
Poetry and ArtEmpyrion Voyeur
whose stars are these? abandoned to the cosmos tethered by forces never seen but two young stars clutched dancing together in celestial rhythm and…
Poetry and ArtChasing Hemingway’s Ghost: A Series of Nine Paintings/Drawings With Accompanying Poetry by Joe McDaniel
I have been chasing Hemingway’s ghosts around the world. I’m inspired by his love for culture that is explored in his stories. I’ve visited…
Morning Sketch, 48, Clear
crows in a murder on a birch tree limb while sun screamed through half-opened blinds painting my body in warrior stripes I rose to…
Poetry and ArtA Reptilian Operetta
Violetta taught her lizard to sing a libretto Alfredo’s script became a passion play on morality better a whore than a bore he sang…
Poetry and ArtMorning Sketch, Clear, 56
give something today not just get something look for that something around certainty give yourself wonder find that thing to comfort celebrate the mystery…
Poetry and ArtMorning sketch 45 degrees, clear
a mound of vesuvius clothes on the floor tripped on the orange extension cord found the toothpaste in with my underwear the brush dipped…
Poetry and ArtFulcrum of a Rose (for Kelsey)
arose a rose without spikes, unshaded softness scattering delicate dreams through the air tickling veiny leaves, mundane bees, an undesired fondness predating papa bears,…
