2024 Poetry-prose And Images Thread - Exploring Words And Their Interaction With Our Art. Katherine Nutt, Moderator

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!! It is SUNDAY, New Years Eve and I wish to thank everyone Moderators and Members for a WONDERful 2023…Let’s make 2024 an even more interesting time sharing our aesthetics in The BUZzz!
The moderator thread images look SOooo BEAUTIFUL! Please, I would love to feature the Moderator topic thread 2024 images in feature (even re-feature) on the homepage if you care to. Thanks so much!

If he had stayed in the basement.......

The 'live' trapped small mouse
He was released in the woods
On a cold morning

The kitchen's soft warmth
Now a distant memory
He is far from home

Is he cowering
Under the cold and damp leaves
Or found a mouse friend?

New mice now greet him
Offering warmth, food, shelter
A new woodland home

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/keep-me-close-on-black-l-a-feldstein.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/orchids-in-spring-angela-davies.html

Upon awakening stretch into the dawn,
And dream within the gentle green,
Celebrating a new spring day~ Angela Davies


Happy New Year to all!

Lovely modern style abstract, and ode to a mouse and his new life LA.

Ladies, I couldn’t resist gushing …love your new year enthusiasm!

Amazing poetic interpretation…from the clean design and RGB colours…I really COULD follow the storyline! Quite amazing! Thanks for sharing in the BUZzz, L A. fav

Angela, is is such a beauty, thanks for sharing in the BUZzz…I love the poetic complement and the awareness that orchid shows are still around …I used to look forward to the February Massachusetts held Eastern States Flower show exhibitions… in the day. They were HUGE juried exhibits vying for the prestigious judging competitions and selling gloxinia, African violets and orchids mainly. Aunt Jill indulged me every year with one…I would always gravitate to the “expensive $2.75 and $3.50 specimens which I would grow to exotic beauty on my cedar chest!

Nice memories of your early orchid shows Laurel. We have a very nice one the first weekend of February at Hershey Pa. I always try to go, such a great place to get photo references for paintings, and there is a butterfly house nearby too, another favorite stop. Sadly, as with everything else, the prices are much higher now though. I have been trying valiantly to get mine to rebloom but no luck. I recently watched a tutorial suggesting feeding them with brewed tea water, tried it but nothing yet. :(

Peace and Joy to All
In all, for all, and with all
possibilities!

Happiest New Year!

Tried some warm-ups with my Watercolors, Acrylics, and Sharpies and my morning coffee, limiting myself to 15 minutes or less on each 12'' x 9'' piece of very cheap, heavy cardstock. Time to LOOSEN UP this year! Then I added some text and/or details and/or borders and adjusted the contrast and color digitally.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/raining-peace-a-hillman.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/revival-a-hillman.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/koi-circus-a-hillman.html

Angela -- beautiful image to go with words for new beginnings.

AH - I am liking your latest style and words.

Happy New Year to all!

My whimsical "Poppy Pods Share the Gift of Music and Dance"

I drew sleepy faces on the poppy pods, since poppy's gift is that of the dream.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/poppy-pods-share-the-gift-of-music-and-dance-only-a-fine-day.html?newartwork=true

Haiku:
Nodding poppy heads.
Nature's music, full of bliss.
Listen. Dream. And Dance.

Wonderful and enthusiastic start to the creative New Year! Wonderful work everyone!

New Year birds first seen
Sky fragments visit garden
Bluebirds foraging

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/bluebird-of-new-year-2024-katherine-nutt.html

Wonderful pieces posted above! I visited them and left some comment love! :)

Here is my most recent piece which I paired with the following poem:

The Sea Of Dreams

Am I dreaming
When I see this life
As a diving board,
Preparing me to jump
Into another dimension?

If I enter the dream
And dive into the depths
To find you,
Will it be as beautiful
As I believe it can be?

There are those
Who dove before me
And state profoundly
That it can.
Therefore, I will take a deep breath

And dive,
Holding onto the beliefs
That my hopes and dreams become.
I will find you there
And we will live eternally as one.

~Diamante Lavendar


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/sailing-on-the-sea-of-dreams-diamante-lavendar.html

Diamante: Great dynamic image - paired perfectly with your words. There is depth and mystery here.

Katherine: A beautiful tender image for the start of a new year!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/whispers-of-sepia-angela-davies.html

When teardrops fall,
I dream in sepia,
Soft mists, memories call,
And my love whispers,
Seductively, in sepia ~ Angela Davies

What a beautiful poem, Angela! I love it! :)

I visited your work, too!

Thanks for your kindness, LA!

Dear A., So beautiful, Matisse is blushing!

Dear D. Only a fine day, thank you for the smiling faces into the new year.

Dear Katherine, what a beautiful choice, the bluebird, harbinger of spring. Thank you for creating this space.

Dear Diamante, your insight is always so powerful I can already see the photon pulses of light ushering in new dimensions the challenge: are we up to the inner journey required?

Dear LA thank you so much for your support. I am SOooo excited by your elegant digital series…I have the feeling, this will be yet another POWERful year for you.

Dear Angela, what an amazing backstory to the macro Rose, the Sepia palette, the soft haiku, the insides from crossing liminal space. Soft hugs, my friend. If you haven’t already done, so, please submit this amazing image for feature next week.

Dear Katherine, thank you for creating this oh so special Space to dance with our inner poet! You are so appreciated! …comment love has been sent to all!

Such a lovely poem Angela, truly. And a perfect image to pair with it!

Alone they flutter
Downward, drifting, hurrying
They meet their new friends

White, newly fallen
The snowflakes one upon one
Form a white blanket

I watch in wonder
How snow will quiet the world
In gentle softness

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/snowflake-mandala-l-a-feldstein.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/almost-naptime-angela-davies.html

Warm and soft,
The light streams,
And pools on the floor
Beside a golden pup,
Sweet dreams to you,
My honey pup~ Angela Davies

A tribute to a favorite pet, received when I was three, so, so many years ago~

Dear L A, what a beauty…I gushed a paragraph in your comment stream…the poem fits the mood beautifully…can’t wait to feature…

Dear Angela…such a Soft tribute to puppies, to fur and cuddles and love. We miss our dear Leo more than can be described!…hope to feature this soon too.

Angela - wonderful sensitivity in your art and your words.

Confusion reigned down
The masses ran towards the storm
No one sought shelter


https://fineartamerica.com/featured/leaving-home-abstract-l-a-feldstein.html

It is with GREAT EXCITEMENT that I post this gratitude here in the BUZzz…in the HEALing thread…18 months later from my rendering on my husband’s end stage cancer diagnosis: As of his PET scan reading today (synchronistically, the anniversary of his mom’s passing and my mom’s 98th birthday) , he is in FULL REMISSION in his bladder and all metastatic sites! …thank you everyone for healing and wellness intentions! I/we both believe in the Power of prayerful intention. His immunotherapy is working!
I was once told, when there is breath, there is hope!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/white-lightning-neurographic-art-laurel-adams.html

A HAIKU:
“Great Spirit…Life Source,
Mystic Alchemist, thank you.
Renewed HOPE shines bright!.”

Laurel - I sent you some love on your site

A Story: Walking Away from You

Sylvia, please, Sylvia!! Don't leave me. PLEASE SYLVIA! Everything we've built here, our wonderful home in the mountains. I'm sorry what I said about your short skinny arms; about how droopy they are; I don't care that your bark isn't soft velvet. I didn't mean it, honest, I didn't. Oh, Sylvia. What will I do without you? I love your skinny arms., honest, honest.......honest......

Sorry Harold; one too many times you've made fun of me. No, I don't have those long arms of those young saplings you yearn after. But, HA! when the weather turned cold, soon enough you TURNED to me. No, Harold, no more. Sorry I don't have that thick trunk or velvety bark. But when the weather turned cold you were happy enough nestled next to me!! GOODBYE HAROLD.

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/view-with-two-trees-l-a-feldstein.html

If you've ever had nightmares, or night terrors, or episodes of sleep paralysis, then you will understand.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/night-terrors-l-a-feldstein.html

The night terrors came
Unwanted, scary, frightening
Unable to move

Trembling, half asleep
The mystical world of dreams
Struggling to wake up

Slowly I returned
To knowing 'it's just a dream'
But still I trembled

And waited for dawn
And the nightmare to dissolve
Into memory

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

Thanks Laurel! I sent it over to the group and thread!

LA enjoyed your haiku and digital art, Parallel Lives on Black! Loneliness, a subject we can all relate to at times in our life.

OLD TREE -Haiku

Metamorphosis
Worn and smooth, bent and brittle
I still love to dance.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/old-tree-alida-m-haslett.html

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/big-eyed-monkey-l-a-feldstein.html

Is it time to leave?
Reflecting on the lost words
Dispelled into space

Friends had moved away
Their lives on different paths
She sat all alone

She sat all alone
Listening to the chirping birds
Watching the sunrise

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

Dear Alida, such a glorious observation…yes, dance, Dance, DANCE! Beautiful Haiku and image! …off to leave some comment love.

Dear L A, your poetry often takes me into soulful depths where the Great Silence absorbs all thought of loneliness…beautiful work and image…off to send some comment love!

Dear Katherine, thank you so much for moderating this thread which showcases SOooo much talent!! …BEST to you.

Weird scenes haunt my dreams
Nightmarish and unexplained
I long for morning

Now hours later
Sad images still linger
Blanketing my day

Where do they come from
The vividness of the dreams
I long to forget

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/perched-l-a-feldstein.html?newartwork=true

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/time-for-the-sun-angela-davies.html?newartwork=true

Time for the Sun

Day after day the somber clouds of April and chilling rain,
The deep dark mud, the gardener's bane,
Time for the return of the golden rays, and a sweet spring sun,
And then, and only then, my sad lament is finally done. ~ Angela Davies

art and prose to the sun upon the impending eclipse 4/8/24

LA brilliant prose and art!

LA, this latest in your Digital alteration series is phenomenal…coupled with the haiku, it is so powerfully elegant! There is something in the air about vivid nightmares of longstanding. I recently confronted mine and had an amazing experience. The painting hasn’t crystallized yet…but I am ever hopeful it will…soon. Love this…thanks for sharing in the BUZzz Haiku thread…

Dear Angela…loving the ode to the sun just in time for the solar eclipse!…are the seeds studded with “jewels? It is a wonderful first piece of your quadriptych….thank you for sharing in the BUZzz and thank you for ALL you do for us here in the BUZzz!

Thanks for the lovely comment Laurel, no jewels but such a good idea! Perhaps if you think they are there...they truly are! The beauty of imagination!

Katherine, I left you a note on your homepage-
you tugged my heart with your profound poetry.
thank you for exposing the raw
It opens eyes and senses
Beautifully expressed.

A haiku:

“Hear the waves’ rhythms?
Their symphony enchants me.
I smell the salt air…”
- Laurel

See you all soon…on or around the 13th…after the laundry and catch-up of a short get-away! Miss you all , …already!

Thank you Katherine for holding this space for us all to write, to dream…to hear each other’s and our own…VOICE! Thank you

Thank you Alida and Laurel for your kind comments and thank you everyone who shares here I appreciate each poem haiku prose and links to the wonderful imagery.

Fairy in the Purple Flowers

Spring flowers blooming
The bronze of afternoon light
Foretells warmth to come

Spirit of Nature
Grounded in admiration
Lupine Blossoms Glow

Indigo florets
Herald spring’s awakening
Where faeries gather

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/faery-in-the-grape-hyacinth-bordered-katherine-nutt.html?newartwork=true

Loved your image Katherine as well as the lovely poetry, I always think of fairies when seeing those tiny beauties, I have them along my front sidewalk.

Angela - Love the faery and hyacinth image plus the perfect poetry!

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/the-lotus-life-cycle-angela-davies.html?newartwork=true

Be as the lotus,
Rise from the mud,
Bloom in the darkness,
And radiate beauty into the world~

Angela - I love how the center of the flower is a glowing blue and how you have found the perfect words to accompany it

Beautiful poem above, LA! Angela and Katherine, I visited your works above. I love how art and writing unite to create magic! :)

Here is one of my latest, made of three photos: one of my father and his siblings when he was a baby (he passed away several years ago), a photo of one of my nephews standing on a cliff looking at a lake, and one of a path through my parent's woods.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/in-his-hands-diamante-lavendar.html

Through our fleeting days,
And life's demands,
We do our best,
While in His hands;
When our journey's through,
With seasoned souls,
We travel Home,
To love and hope!

-Diamante

Diamante - beautiful words and image; a great story

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/woodlands-melody-angela-davies.html

And strolling into the woodlands,
Where the melody of birds,
The rain falling, the trees growing,
I calm my mind, and lift my soul~ Angela Davies

Inspired by a quote from John Muir~

Inspiring image and words Diamante! Went over to visit your image~

Dear Diamante, gorgeous image and backstory…left some comment love. Heartfelt.

Angela - wonderful inspiring words and art!

Distant lands awaited
Were they brave enough to go
Into the unknown

Their need to flee great
Must leave oppressors behind
Hoping for the best

Distances travelled
So long and so arduous
The rewards unknown

© L. A. Feldstein 2024

Angela Diamante and L A, thank you very much for the lovely poetry shares! Always good to come here and feel and see your insightful visions.