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Image-ine Poetry: “Girl in Street” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 26 Comments

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Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, join Maureen Doallas as she responds to Lisa Hess Hesselgrave’s “Girl in Street.”

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine

Image-ine Poetry: “Plywood Archer #1” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 13 Comments

Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, join Maureen Doallas and Lisa Hess Hesselgrave, as they aim high with their art.

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine

Image-ine Poetry: “Jumprope, Pink Room” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 29 Comments

Image-ine Exercise write poetry jumprope pink room

Writing poetry from art ignites creativity. For this Image-ine exercise, ponder children and a jump rope with poet Maureen Doallas and artist Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

Filed Under: Blog, Childhood Poems, Creativity, Image-ine, poetry

Image-ine Poetry: “Hot Sky” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 21 Comments

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Join Maureen Doallas in this Image-ine Poetry creative writing exercise based on “Hot Sky, ” a painting by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Image-ine

Image-ine Poetry: “Bedsheet” by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave

By Maureen Doallas 15 Comments

Image-ine Bedsheet Lisa Hesslegrave

Writing poetry from art ignites creativity and helps you become a better writer. Join Maureen Doallas in this Image-ine exercise based on “Bedsheet, ” a painting by Lisa Hess Hesselgrave.

Filed Under: Art, Attentiveness Poems, Blog, Childhood Poems, Creativity, Image-ine

Image-ine: Barbie Crime

By Sara Barkat 11 Comments

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Who committed the Barbie crime? The dolls (and the horse) are on the Barbie case.

Filed Under: Art, Image-ine, poetry humor, Student Writing

Image-ine: Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen

By Maureen Doallas 8 Comments

Warrior Canoe by Holly Friesen

Maureen Doallas pairs her poem ‘A Ladder Our Boat’ with Holly Friesen’s ‘Warrior Canoe’ in our latest Image-ine feature.

Filed Under: Art, Image-ine, poetry

Image-ine: Jewel of Winter

By Maureen Doallas 24 Comments

Maureen Doallas and Kelly Sauer turn up a sweet, juicy bit of visual poetry together.

Filed Under: Image-ine, Poems, poetry, visual poetry

Image-ine: Defying The Queen With A Door

By Claire Haidar 9 Comments

I moved to Dublin instead and discovered not only blue doors, but purple doors, red doors, yellow doors, grey doors, orange doors, pink doors, green doors … you name it and I will hazard a guess that I could find you a door painted in that exact colour. –Claire Burge shares about her adventures behind closed, colourful doors

Filed Under: article, Blog, Dublin Doors, Image-ine, visual poetry

Image-ine: Paired Off

By Maureen Doallas 2 Comments

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Artist Evy Lareau and poet Maureen Doallas pair off to produce a lovely piece of visual poetry.

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine, writing prompts

Image-ine: Red Shoes

By Maureen Doallas 18 Comments

A girl can dream of stepping out on the High Road, a flame in heels that’ll steel no beau’s heart. What laces each ankle in place she’ll turn to take his fancy and he, blood pressure rising, will let her lead and whirl. “Red Shoes, ” acrylic on board, by Nicola Slattery. Used with permission. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine, poetry, visual poetry

image-ine: tribes

By Susan Cornelis 5 Comments

tribes save me from the little tribes the us and them tribes that say who can’t marry who that make you take up a gun to defend them give me those sisters and brothers in the bigger family to link arms with to cluck and strut together to head off somewhere not knowing precisely where […]

Filed Under: Art, Blog, Image-ine, poetry, writing prompts

image-ine: a visceral reaction to sound

By Claire Haidar 7 Comments

i was blissfully unaware of the fact that people lived with music inside of them. it took falling in love to learn this life truth. he was angled and beautiful: tan skin, rippled with muscle curvature and dark curls that framed his strong jawline. the music inside of him spontaneously made its way out of […]

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IMAGE-INE: Ireland Up Close

By Kellē Sauer 41 Comments

When my daughter was born, she came alive into the world with only one tiny cry of surprise. Her little black eyes blinked. She saw nothing – but she saw everything that was important: she was loved; Mama was here; she was a person. I saw for her; I saw her; I learned at twenty-five […]

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Image-ine: colour seduction in burano venice

By Claire Haidar 50 Comments

Burano alley and shutters

Take an exotic tour—in colorful words and photos—of Burano Venice. See if you don’t want to go there in your dreams and beyond.

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine, poetry

Image-ine: Cerulean

By Michelle Rummel 19 Comments

  She Breathes Cerulean Aquarelle runs deep within the lines of her. She breathes cerulean. . . Floating transparent, in the tides of time.   “She Breathes Cerulean”, original watercolor and poem by Michelle “Shell” Rummel. © Shell Rummel, of Shell Artistree. Designs and collections: Shell Rummel Fine Art & Licensing.     ___________ Try […]

Filed Under: Image-ine, visual poetry

Image-ine: Walking Rain

By Maureen Doallas 20 Comments

Walking+Rain by Randall David Tipton

Walking Rain It has no legs but the rain is walking the space the White Cloud travels. Earth’s bronzed hard hand welcomes Neomonni’s turned-down lip. Where parched mountain mouths grow stiff with waiting, thirsty bones wrinkle, rattling the distant hills’ enchantment beyond the Trail of Tears.   “Walking Rain”, watermedia on paper by Randall David […]

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Image-ine: Rally of Aqua

By Maureen Doallas 9 Comments

The scrape of palette knife an accident of memory…

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Image-ine: The Meeting

By Claire Haidar 11 Comments

I want her in front of my lens I realise as we drive away. She is poetry in a body.

Filed Under: Blog, Image-ine, poetry, visual poetry

Image-ine: Lyrics

By Robin Maria Pedrero 9 Comments

Lyrics like lavender /lines lifting towards the sky/painting gives new heights

Filed Under: Image-ine, visual poetry

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