by CKSadmin | Sep 20, 2023 | art, Poetry
This poem was inspired by Ocean Vuong’s eloquent and quietly powerful poem, “Torso of Air…” as well as Rumi: I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I’ve been knocking from the inside! The Artwork: I Turn...
by CKSadmin | Sep 13, 2023 | art, Poetry
This is a poem about bad days, good days, and how we respond to them. The Artwork: Milky Way Over White Sands The Poem: What is a Day? What is a bad daywhen a good daycan provide the mindthe most ammunition? What is a good daywhen a bad daycan provide the heartthe...
by CKSadmin | Sep 6, 2023 | art, Poetry
This is a poem about shifting one’s perspective about happiness as a “final destination,” and more as something that you find on the edges of every moment. The Artwork: Dying Poppies This poem first appeared in Vol 3., Issue 1 of the digital lit mag,...
by CKSadmin | Aug 30, 2023 | art, Poetry
A painting and poem about being *chef’s kiss* imperfect. The Artwork: Cherry Tree The Poem: Transmutation My regrets sink down my spineinto depthssearching for bits of mud and rockto burymy mistakesand crush theminto somethingsilent and unrecognizable....
by CKSadmin | Aug 23, 2023 | art, Poetry
Here’s some poetry and art about depression, the lows, and trying to live the questions (in the style of Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet.) The Artwork: Waning The Poem: Cold & Sharp & Heavy I am sometimes coldand sharp and heavy like the impenetrable...
by CKSadmin | Aug 16, 2023 | art, Poetry
Watercolor & Poetry The Artwork: One to Bloom This poem first appeared in Vol 3., Issue 1 of the digital lit mag, “Instant Noodles.” The Poem: One to Bloom I should be writingthe future, but I falter in the now My imagination boxed up in spreadsheets ofartistic...
