Showing posts with label New World Creative Union. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New World Creative Union. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

An Invocation Of Angels


The Devil will have his day
some, may argue he's had
quite a few

The harp strings shall pluck
once more, lest, it will be
the demons that we answer for

Many mythologies speak of such a
final act…the Norse call it Ragnarok
where the wolf devours Odin, the
leader of their Gods

For Catholics, as the beasts walk the streets,
the devout should keep their windows closed
until the howling stops, and a light breaks out,
filling the sky with a blinding warmth, where,
once sight's regained, Mary will be, standing tall
above this brilliant day, as the serpent's skull
is crushed beneath the might of our Mother's foot

These are but two, of the many, possibilities,
all illustrating the same thing, an ending that begets
a beginning new

But until such time
our world produces
scars quite deep,
purging hell unto our
streets, devouring the
innocent and raising the
dead

Demons crawl the horizon line,
blocking out the sun and sky,
yet
today…I've invoked
the Angels to fly, to
soar fierce and stave
out these devils, until
it's time for the
end of games

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Don't Put Baby In A Corner…err…triangle or Berzerk LIfe Triangle



The New World Creative Union has restarted their very cool mid-week prompt, The Wednesday Wake Up Call. This week Roger's opened up the floor for any artistic medium.  The Prompt is to create something using, yellow, green, blue and Lilac, along with incorporating triangles, Peace and a Baby.  As you can tell I went abstract, go figure right.  I added a little black into the picture so the metaphor could work.

Make sure you stop on over and see what everyone's created, and the link will be open for a few more days, so get inspired and join in the fun.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Butterfly Effective



sentimentally inert
with affections toward butterflies,
even moths

rest, predictably effecting,
the ladders of time

as weeks merge into
one day (light)

spaces beams
intricately,

though
it's pattern of designs,
often go unseen

to all variables in each
fragmentation of scenery

Sparse reception,
scantily clad,
amidst the nets cast unto
methodologies unveiled

organically, naturalistically,
the skeptic must
reconsider his orientation

One small differentiation, a brushing,
a daub, a touch…

Unto nothing

yet, this nothing
is about to
alter everything

For Wednesday Wake Up Call over at New World Creative Union, where Natasha prompts us to think of, and to become inspired by, the butterflies that capture our creative eyes.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Self-Portrait


Over at New World Creative Union, Natasha's posted this week's prompt for the Wednesday Wake Up, and it has to do with creativity and to shut those hater's up for good.  

Well, I started off attempting to paint up some vicious Dragon breaking free from an unsettled mass of earth, but then I realized I'm not that kind of artist, well, only because I haven't learned to be that kind of artist yet.  Fact being, my dragons look like anteaters, so that's a big reason I very rarely do anything that's not abstract.  However, I wondered, what could I do?

So I started out doodling in crayon, thanks Tash, and just started mindlessly drawing, (which is how all my pieces get going).  Then a thought captured me, and the result is now here, on display.  A Self-Portrait.  And while I'd love to say it's strictly my artistic self, I really don't want to lie.

Not sure if this piece silences the haters, or makes them want to say "told ya so," but if that's the case, let me rebut by saying, the first step in overcoming adversity is by identifying there is adversity to overcome.  Understand your struggles, contemplate them and ways around or through them.  Only by acknowledging as such, will you even have a shred of hope in overcoming them."

But then, the question arises, that I struggle with the most.  If you eliminate adversity, kind of impossible really, speaking generally, but if you are able to bring your mind to a better place, improve your lifestyle etc.. does what makes your creative side move also disappear?

That's the riddle right there.  A riddle I'm sure most would say, away cruel ills, and pray it doesn't clasp tightly upon your artistry as you vanquish it from your days.


Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Lighthouse at night


Well, I just posted something a couple hours ago, but saw The Wednesday Wake Up on Natasha's site and thought, why not.  love the NWCU and what they do for the artistic community and missed out the past two weeks, so thought I'd come up with something to share.  Check the NWCU out lots of great stories on display, and join in the wake up call while you're there.