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Pastel Essentia
My process is messy like me, a work in progress. I love smearing and smudging the pastels...
Mercury Snake
Sliding through the water like a Mercury Snake...
Change on Change
Three months ago, the stream did flow,
The lilies bloomed along the edge;
And we were lingering to and fro,—...
The lilies bloomed along the edge;
And we were lingering to and fro,—...
Sonnet
Lyre of my Love! for many a lonely hour
Thou hast breathed music o’er my sinking mind...
Thou hast breathed music o’er my sinking mind...
Silver Godesses
Ice ... she stood there within her castle of many battlements gazing down upon us...... this silver goddess of the sea...
The Music
It’s
three-thirty in the morning and
we’re far underground...
three-thirty in the morning and
we’re far underground...
O Muse! 09: Winter Solstice 2022
• Martyn Lucas • Matthew Herbert • Jennifire Hill • Janelle Seabock • Elizabeth Barrett Browning • Sumner L. Fairfield...
Midjourney Dreams
Surreal AI art by Photographer Pompo Bresciani...
But, Is It Art? A.I. Musings
It took a long time for photography to be considered “art.” So, is AI art?...
100 Silent Ways
Spoken language is only one of many ways humans communicate with each other...
Villager / Wallflower
In the late sixties a Californian musician named RJ McKendree blows through Underhill where he writes a set of haunting psychedelic folk songs...
Rabbit & Bear
powerful, tender moments of conversation and reflection...
The Art of Remembrance
Mausoleum Cremation Urn Cabinet, complete with three secret compartments...
The Birds Are Still Singing
A joyful, life-affirming fusion of colour and spontaneity...
Leisure
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare...
We have no time to stand and stare...
Nature
Nature rarer uses yellow...
The Language of Flowers
The language that they speak is Nature’s prayer...
Disputed Tread
Where she steps a whir,
Like dust about her feet...
Like dust about her feet...
I Will Remember This Day
I will remember this day
Just like almost any day
That my tears fell like rain
My heart was full of pain...
Just like almost any day
That my tears fell like rain
My heart was full of pain...
The Use Of Life
Rest is not idleness...
Midjourney Dreams – A.I.-Generated Art
Pompo is a stills photographer for feature film and television productions, including for AMC (TV Network), Hulu and ICG. He has worked on Swamp People, Leverage, and, most recently, Ann Rice’s Interview with the Vampire and MIKE (about Mike Tyson). Pompo’s photographs have appeared on the pages of many worldwide magazines, brochures and publications. Pompo...
O Muse! 08: Fall Equinox 2022
•Pompo Bresciani •Daniel S. Sorine : Robin Williams •Tracy Conway •Tom Cox & Will Twynham •Fiona Almeleh •Blue Alchemy : Cyanotypes •Barbara Lane Gauley •Tara Shannon : Rabbit & Bear •W.H. Davies •Ed Spiece •Hazel Hall •Amos Russel Wells •Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean) •John Lubbock •Katarzyna Szulc •Charles Fenno Hoffman...
World Cyanotype Day – Sept. 24, 2022
This early photographic process is new again...
Voices of Earth
These are the voices of earth’s secret soul, Uttering the mystery from which she came. - Archibald Lampman...
Narius
by Luna Madden, 2nd High Priestess, Nida Order of the Lowlands of Molish.
English translation by Danzi Highwood. An allegorical drama inspired by playing the ancient music of Hildegard von Zemik backward.*...
English translation by Danzi Highwood. An allegorical drama inspired by playing the ancient music of Hildegard von Zemik backward.*...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Seven
Carried Through the Gates as the Contraband of Time. by Beth W. Patterson. Illustrations by Morgan Wagner...
Hunter Moon
by Kate Rusby. I was imagining the moon being in love with the sun. But he can never catch her and he can never tell her...
Singing Waters
A selection of poems from Johnette Downing’s spring 2022 release Singing Waters, A Selection of Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun...
O Muse! 07: Summer Solstice 2022
Lunar Codex/Dr. Samuel Peralta • Frank C. Grace • Sierra Camille Kay • Sacha Suarez • Kate Rusby • Adam Bart • Johnette Downing • Nathaniel Hawthorne • Katherine Mansfield • Beth W. Patterson / Morgan Wagner...
Hoo-Mee?
Funny, unique creatures for people who keep inner children in their hearts...
Hear Me While You Can
Listen, come closer. Immerse yourself now. Explore the soundscapes of nature...
One Circle More
Is the spiral the shape of life?...
Everything is Blue in this World
You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder...
Did you say Puppets?
When I paint with a puppet I feel freed from the controlling part of my mind...
Star Taker
The word Astrolabe translates to “Star-taker”...
The oldest known star chart
This is post 7 of 16 in the series “07: Summer Solstice 2022” O Muse! 07: Summer Solstice 2022 O Muse! is going to the MOON!!!! Everything is Blue in this World Hunter Moon The House of the Seven Gables (excerpt) Deep Blue Plunge The oldest known star chart Star Taker One Circle More Did...
Deep Blue Plunge
I find inspiration in the human spirit, nature, and everyday moments...
Whippoorwill
Come dance in the willows, the moon is still high. Song by Diana Thornton. With Beth Patterson LIVE...
Voices of the Air
The little voices of the air
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play...
Sound above all the sea and wind.
The sea and wind do then obey
And sighing, sighing double notes
Of double basses, content to play...
The House of the Seven Gables (excerpt)
The moon ... like an ambitious demagogue, who hides his aspiring purpose by assuming the prevalent hue of popular sentiment... by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Photos by Frank C. Grace...
O Muse! is going to the MOON!!!!
O Muse! Magazine is going to the MOON in the Lunar Codex, a massive collection of art, books, music and more, to be sent to the moon by Samuel Peralta...
O “Moos” business cards
O Muse! has new business cards...
O Muse! 06: Ukraine Edition 2022
Oleksandra Green • Svitlana Baranivska • Oksana Fogg • Beth Patterson • Okean Elzy • Sacha Suarez • Children of Ukraine...
Mom, I see war
“Mom, I see war” was created to show the world how Ukrainian children are experiencing Russia’s attack on their country...
Lullaby Behind the Lines
Sleep, sleep, my baby dear. Don’t cry, or they’ll know that we’re hiding down here. And when it is safe, we will hurry for the plane, and you’ll never remember the war ... Lyrics by Beth Waggoner Patterson...
The End and the Beginning
Anyone who has experienced war, or even a natural disaster, knows it doesn’t end when the bombs stop falling or the rain stops or the wind stops blowing. That is the message of poet Wislawa Szymborska...
Not Your War
Ukrainian mega rock band Okean Elzy’s 2015 song “Not Your War” is taking on new meaning as Russia invades Ukraine yet again...
Inspired by Picasso’s Guernica
Sacha Suarez expresses her feelings from the news in Ukraine...
Sunflowers
Oksana Fogg is a Ukrainian artist who lives in New Orleans. She is auctioning her paintings to raise money for Ukrainian families affected by the war...
Love our Ukraine
Vladimir Sosyura's poem expresses Ukrainian’s love for their Motherland and helps others understand the “true Ukrainian soul.”
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Ukrainian Embroidery
18th-century Ukrainian embroidered fragment of shirts...
“Zapovit” and “I care not if it’s in Ukraine”
Taras Shevchenko's poem “Zapovit” is well known in Ukraine. And Jack Palance reads "I Care Not"...
Ukrainian National Anthem
Ukraine’s freedom has not yet perished, nor has her glory...
My Heart You Cannot Take By Force – Part 2
Oleksandra Green is an illustrator who lives in Lviv, Ukraine. She is posting powerful messages and sketches that express her anger and fear, determination and clarity about the Russian invasion of her homeland...
Imagine
John Lennon's timeless song of peace...
Traditional Ukrainian Household
A traditional Ukrainian household with many of the important items such as sunflowers and garlic...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Six
Experimenting with drugs • KINC meeting • Infiltrator • Radio show • Horse-napping • Showdown • Lord Snood!...
O Muse! 05: Spring Equinox 2022
Picasso • Catherine Gray • Tracy Conway • Gwyndyn T. Alexander • Peter Dewolf • Beau Gray/Lexington Field • Marina Krut & The Khmelnitsky Municipal Choir • Gina Forsyth • Amzie Adams • Camille Tsai • Valérie Hadida • Missy Bowen • Luna and Danzi • et al...
It was one of those March days
...when the suns shines hot and the wind blows cold...
Northern Parula
A true harbinger of spring...
Jellicle Cats
Jellicle Cats are white and black...
Bloom to Fly
sometimes i like to think everyone is a different plant,
the more diverse, the better the garden...
the more diverse, the better the garden...
Joy
Joy shakes me like the wind that lifts a sail, Like the roistering wind...
The Lumberjack
THE LUMBERJACK started as a song written by Beau Gray...
They do have drive-thru daiquiri stores in Louisiana, don’t they?
This is post 13 of 19 in the series “05: Spring Equinox 2022” O Muse! 05: Spring Equinox 2022 Dove of Peace My heart you cannot take by force Before the war … we were just people. Lord Have Mercy (Ukraine Version) Life One Silence Like a Clap of Thunder Tracy L. Conway A Perch...
Little Good Women
French artist Valérie Hadida creates bronze sculptures that feature lyrical portraits of women...
Wish I May
I was a child who wanted to be a star...
Colour of My Dreams
painted, printed and embellished with a needle felting machine and free machine stitching...
A Perch of Birds
Twenty-four finches perched in a row...
Tracy L. Conway
Remembering • Solitude • Flow • Driftwood...
One Silence Like a Clap of Thunder
Gocho was celebrated a healer and also admired as a painter and calligrapher...
Life
Sunflower, for Ukraine...
Lord Have Mercy (Ukraine Version)
Gina rewrote one of her songs for Ukraine...
My heart you cannot take by force
I had hoped to feature the art of Ukrainian artist Oleksandra Green who is caught up in the Russian invasion of her homeland. I reached out to her through multiple channels but so far have not received a response...
Dove of Peace
The original Dove of Peace was designed by Pablo Picasso in 1949...
Before the war … we were just people.
Before the war, we were all musicians, singers, artists, dancers, and just people...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Five
Morning's Promise: Escape from the Dinner Theater • Camellia Grill • Revelations...
It sifts from leaden sieves
It sifts from leaden sieves, It powders all the wood...
Winter Branches
The stripped tree-boughs comfort me, drawn clear against the sky...
ukkaruti
calved from its mother...
November Beach
Winter is a great time to go the beach...
The Neutral Ground
documents New Orleans’ fight over monuments...
Wild Man Wyman
a short story that touches on New Orleans’ festering tensions with the Robert E. Lee statue, the roiling emotions connected to it and the power of symbols...
Pandora’s Box
She opened the box and evil flew out and Ravaged Mankind. All that remained was Hope, a beautiful dragonfly...
Marley Maeve Surfboard Mosaics
Stained glass mosaics gives new life to old, damaged surf boards...
icicles
race the morning sun ... Haiga...
Amziecaster
What do you get when you add kid red to Amzie Adams? Amziecaster!...
Musicians showcase other talents in new digital magazine
Winter Solstice marks the fourth issue of O Muse!, an art, literature and music publication that celebrates, supports, and promotes the diversity of creatives...
I think the weather mourned you too
In memory of Eleanor Ruth Wagner 1941-2021...
Dancing with David
She wanted to be a college girl again...
Blue Winter
Winter uses all the blues there are...
Synesthesia
the sound of a cello is always a full, blood red, a flute sounds thin and silver blue...
O Muse! 04: Winter Solstice 2021
Tracey Roberts • Shannon Barletta • Susan Richards • kid red + Amzie Adams • Dan Simpson • Diana Thornton • Joe Barbara • CJ Hunt • Eleanor Wagner • Turin Burdick • Beth W. Patterson/Morgan Wagner...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Four
But the Shadows Danced Too Much for Me to See: Neutral Ground Coffeehouse • Mollusks • New Clothes • Piercings • Crescent City Dinner Theater...
Primordial Ooze
Volcanic mud...
Dragonfly
A living flash of light...
The Gate
...it’s always been about the light...
Music is our Magic
Image of Doreen Ketchens, the “Clarinet Queen” of New Orleans...
SAM PRICE & THE TRUE BELIEVERS
SAM PRICE & THE TRUE BELIEVERS is a funky roots band that is all Southern and all Louisiana in its beats and mellow soulful groove...
Dumpster Diving
Jimmy Anselmo finds art in the most unlikely of places - dumpsters!...
IDA
Hurricane IDA hit New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2021, knocked out power, caused major flooding and wind damage, and brought the normal bustle of the French Quarter to a stop. In the aftermath, Amzie painted...
O Muse! 03: Autumnal Equinox 2021
Amzie Adams • Jimmy Anselmo • Dan Simpson • Wayne Smith • Beth W. Patterson/Morgan Wagner • Monica Kelly and Jamie Risbourg/Sam Price & the True Believers • Marco Bell & Monica Spain...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Three
Orange Cat Staring at the Moon: New Orleans • Goats• French Quarter • Busking • Searching for P.O.R.N...
O Muse! 02: Summer Solstice 2021
Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes • Tricia Moszkowicz • Beth W. Patterson/Morgan Wagner • Helen Dewolf • Marcus Akinlana/Khari Allen Lee • Olga Suvorova/October Project • kid red • Jillian Louis • Johnette Downing • Diana Thornton...
Her
I close my eyes again and imagine the swirling life around me...
Through the Lens of a Naturalist
Exquisite photography from Louisiana...
October Project featuring Chorus Austin
Russian artist Olga Suvorova's fascinating Rococo-style cover art captures the essence of the music perfectly...
Fortune
the mind is everythhing...
Fiber Roots
Texture, Nature and Movement through geodes, cedar roots, yarn, and beads...
Leporidae Picnic
Ink drawing...
Analog Selfie
A pre-digital photograph taken deep in the woods of Bayou Liberty, LA...
Calliope
The most distinguished and important of the muses in Greek mythology...
Bananas, Propane Tank or Eclipse?
Can you guess?...
Chicago Summer
Cool fun on a hot Chicago summer day...
“Our Great Awakening” – Khari Allen Lee
"I approach an empty surface in the same way a jazz musician approaches a saxophone."...
7 Breaths
7 Haiku...
Seeking Original Album Art
Does your album use original art painted/drawn by an artist? If you removed the words, would it stand on its own, framed, on a gallery wall? I am working on a feature for my digital magazine O Muse! about original album art. As owner of Crescent Music Services and a graphic designer for over 25...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode Two
Savor the Light of Day: Miniature horses • Sting • first kiss • New Orleans!...
O Muse! 01: Spring Equinox 2021
Pat Jolly, Beth W. Patterson, Morgan Wagner, Diana Thornton, Eleanor Wagner...
Satellite Image, Mars Photo or Hole?
Can you guess?...
Madonna De Luz
This is a story about God giving me a photo where I captured more than I saw!!...
Pat Jolly Photography
Abstract and creative images revealing Pat’s sense of shadow and light, patterns and motion that capture the spirit and energy of New Orleans...
Become a character in Beth’s story
Join Luna and Danzi on their adventure. This is a limited time offer...
The Adventures of Luna and Danzi: Episode One
Fanfares of Courage, Naked Aggression: lost in Texas • Earth clothing • Quest for horses • Nudists • 1st Gig • 1st friend • on the road again...
Turtle Galaxy
Ancient spirits dwell eons tween fluid and ether in spaceships of bone...
Leaf Affair
You first cast your spell on me
That first winter snowfall
A fluffy mound of snow
Clung to your side
Defying gravity’s pull...
That first winter snowfall
A fluffy mound of snow
Clung to your side
Defying gravity’s pull...
Black and White Minimalism
This is post 3 of 6 in the series “01: Spring Equinox 2021” O Muse! 01: Spring Equinox 2021 Leaf Affair Black and White Minimalism Turtle Galaxy Pat Jolly Photography Madonna De Luz Most people know Diana for her CD graphic design and her company Crescent Music Services. Diana started studying photography in the 1980s...
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