Poetry: The Energetic Truth

The Energetic Truth

by Alice Zimmerman

in response to the artworks of Annalisa Jose

On this multidimensional journey

Ever entwined in circles of you

I take gentle, passionate, sacred steps

Weaving gossamer strands in my wake

Over and over and over again

Through traveled ages, phases, and time

I walk, at last, through destiny's door

Recognizing truth in silent roars

That

I am you

You are me

And we are One

Poetry: Illumination

Illumination

A poem by Alice Zimmerman

in response to Golden Mean,

the artwork of Jean Dahlgren

I am a phoenix rising from the pyre

Blazing my way from one life to the next

All of me burns away with a force indescribable

As a roaring, raging, illuminating rapier incinerates me to my center

Dissolving all that is old and no longer useful

And I rise...

And I raise...my self

Renewed, re-birthed, rediscovered

Only to recognize that all I ever had to do

Was remember

Poetry: Bastrop Burning

Three poems by Lou Taylor

in response to the art work of Allison Brown-Cestero

Bastrop Burning: Epicenter

Deep char

In the center of our lives

White hot

Hear flames crack

Smell acrid smoke

Emanating from our core

Changed forever

Bastrop Burning: Rift

Slashing deep and wide

Destruction from all side

Divides our world

Surrounding inferno

Leaves a canyon of death

Breath the fumes

Sense the heat

Wait for cool relief

Bastrop Burning: Lost Pines

Gone in a flash

Eons of patient growth

Destroyed before our eyes

Poetry: Fine Feathers

Fine Feathers

a poem written by Lois Heger

in response to the lovely jacket,

Fine Feathered Friends,

created by artist Jill Becker.

How outrageous that art could hug a woman

Patterns that dance around her shoulders

Embrace her torso with pulsing vibes

Guinea feathers that flirt with her cleavage

As if Icarus' feathers

Fallen from their

Man made wings

Floated down

To land in a silken shrug

Around the shoulders of a lovely girl

Fine Feathered Friends, modeled by Annalisa Jose

with artist and creator Jill Becker at right.


photo courtesy of Alfredo Rego

Poetry: The Hunt

Hunting Owl

Poetry by Lou Taylor,

responding to the The Hunt,

a beautifully dyed, hand-painted, and quilted piece

by artist Leslie Rego

Fierce raptor

Intense focus

Created for the hunt

Eyes shining

In the night

Skimming the trees

Stalking prey

Wild beauty

Lovely and dangerous

photo courtesy of Paul Riccardi

Poetry: Bastrop Burning

Bastrop Burning

by Lois Heger

inspired by the three riveting works of artist 

Allison Brown-Cestero:

Bastrop Burning: Epicenter 

Bastrop Burning: Rift

Bastrop Burning: Lost Pines

I still smell it, smoke's

Invasive smell intrudes, resides

Concentric circles pulse from a

Golden orange emptiness

Dark as the dizzy boundaries a hole in the center

Brackets of green fading out

Fall away from the hot colors

Torn away as rented fabric

Holes and chars reveal under-layers

All the way to the core

Pines down and dark and gone

And the spiral of

Released seed falling

They say it comes back better after a burn

In earth time, not long

In girl time it's forever

Lost Pines

Poetry: Letters Home

A Love Story

by Edna Kitchen

Inspired by the art of Judy Carpenter

"Letters Home"

Our souls dangling by a single red thread

Of a chain that once held us together

Like a ghost struggling to find

Its way back home

Bursting forth through the sweet golden

Memories of your touch

Ceasing to exist in the thick blue torment

Of our lonely separateness

Your letters home are all I have

A whisper of a promise

That one day soon

You will return to me

To weave the threads of our lives once more

Into a greater destiny

Unraveling nevermore.