I started this blog after moving to northern New Mexico from coastal North Carolina. Feeling the loss of my creative community, I started posting works in progress as a way to push myself forward and connect with other writers and painters.
For the first eight months or so I offered original narrative images as weekly image prompt for writers. The Storybook Collaborative pages document the collaborations.
Sadly - for I have enjoyed the adventure, and meeting so many interesting, creative souls - keeping the blog has has taken a back seat to sleep, family, work obligations and the birth of our Mountain daughters. I'd like to get back to it and still hope to one day. Until such time I am delighted by your visit and hope you will leave a comment and come back for more.
mine enemy grows older 
Thanks, Rick, for including the link even tho I had not posted a link in a comment. I was waiting up for my hubby who came back from work past midnight, and remembered your image prompt. The very first line of the poem came to me then…..and it just went along from there.
Thank you also for being so generous with your work, and for creating such a wonderful community of artists.
Your daughter, btw, is every bit as pretty as I had imagined her to be even before she was born, you guys are such lucky parents:)
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damyantig, the way you wrote the poem is pretty much the way the painting unfolded, visually and thematically. I really like what you did with it.
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I am glad you like it. I was almost half-asleep when I posted it, at which point hubby came back home, so I simply got about fetching him dinner and clean forgot about linking it to you.
Now that you seem to be a little more relaxed, could you take a look again at this post, and see if a painting comes out of it?
http://damyantiwrites.wordpress.com/2008/06/06/writing-a-poem-hoping-for-a-picture/
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A little late with this one, sorry.
http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/and-another-collaboration/
I loved this painting, it’s beautiful and I love that it was a collaboration with you and Broadus………the ripple effect, ha!
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All of your paintings seem to resonate viscerally with me, but your colloborations with Broadus really send me; like “Stupid War” did. This painting is one of my favorites, if that is possible.
Glenn
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Hey, I’m back too! Summer is not supposed to be hectic….
Here’s a link to a poem, not as bright and whimsical as your painting, but it’s what I produced today. Thanks again!
I am a hawk and a mouse
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Brother Mobbs, Here’s one for this one, written last week, but I’ve been tidying it up. You are too terrific.
Now I can start thinking about the next Storybook offering….
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Joyce, the poem is outstanding. I left a note on your blog. By the way I had to correct the link above as .blogspot.com did not appear. Maybe you should check that setting again.
Christine, it just seems to get hectiker and hectickerr. Thanks for the great story poem, I’m going back to check it out again. It has been crazy here, too. I have to get over and check out that postal poetry you mentioned.
Marlow, thank you. It is one of our favorites now, too.
Jo, I read it and loved it and have to come back and refresh my memory of it.
Damyantig, I will get back to that. I’ll send myself an email now.
Joyce, I just posted this weeks. Hope to hear from all of you.
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