“The Land of Lost Names”©SusanToddMartin2022($1800.00) Slinking out, an arm entwines/ while in my head a dream unwinds /My vision blurs as visions come/ I feel speech slide off my tongue/ It floats away unheard, unread/ I swim out further, the sea my bed. “Drowning With Her Baggage”©SusanToddMartin2023($290.00) Octo-eel emeralds, such glistening fish/ you filetContinueContinue reading “Tentacle Memories”
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Do You Know What I Know?
One of the MANY VERSIONS of “The Dreaming Forest” STMartin2021 I was pondering a lesson today in oil painting class…that being: It is OK to ruin a painting when you are a beginner. It is ok for your starting efforts to fail, not turn out as you had hoped, to basically be terrible. And theContinueContinue reading “Do You Know What I Know?”
Hugging You
oh, my/ i sigh, wisp of memory/ floating by an image/ remembering us the smell of clean/ oil of olay hands warm/ blue veins/ grey eyes Oh, my/ i sigh. arm in arm/ hand to hand laughing again/ I dream awake oh! awaken my love! waiting breathlessly/ drowning sea I hug you tightly/ brightly ShiningContinueContinue reading “Hugging You”
And Her Name Is…
“…and I am all locked up inside a tiny, empty box of a mind…”
A Post on a Page?
A Page of posts…. Doubting Thomas in a Virgin Forest. It’s funny that I don’t write in my journal anymore…I used to write every night, pouring my heart out, writing poetry and telling my dreams. No one ever read the words, and I was free to say what I truly had in my heart. ItContinueContinue reading “A Post on a Page?”
Cruelty to Humans
Oh, Woe! To the Earth and the Sea! Oh, my. So much going on in the world today. So many sad stories, War and pain all around us. It can feel so… HEAVY. and it is. I feel it, the weight of this life… It’s not killing me today, though. Not like it used toContinueContinue reading “Cruelty to Humans”
EXPRESSIONS
I have finally begun to create again. I was locked in some inner dilemma for quite a while, but then had an epiphany: I must make a move, pick up a pen or a brush. Dab a color on a wall. Move a muscle, change a thought! So work has started to pour out ofContinueContinue reading “EXPRESSIONS”
Don’t Give Up Your Childhood Dreams!
You Can Have THAT Life! It only took me 45 years, and a wildly interesting journey, but a slow climb got me to a joyful life. You can have it too!
Out of the Gutter Art 