Creative Souls Storytime Challenge #16

"The Pendulum" by: Dwight Lyman Moody

There was once a pendulum waiting to be fixed on a new clock.  It began to calculate how long it would be before the big wheels were worn out and its work was done.

 Elements from Itkupilli's "Steampunk and Skeletons," TumbleFishStudios "Random Favorites," and Chili Designz "Steampunk Time."

Creative Souls Challenge Poem #14

"My Castle in Spain"

by: Nixon Waterman

My castle in Spain, is a place of delight,

Where I joyfully wander at morning and night;

Of all life's high pleasure the happiest hours

Are those I devote to its fountains and flowers.

Whenever my mind in a reverie swings,

Hope bears me away on her jubilant wings.

To leave me, forgetful of care and of pain,

A fortunate prince at my castle in Spain.

My castle in Spain, oh, its caskets of gold,

Of rubies and pearls, are a joy to behold;

And riches for which I must ever despair

In this workaday world, are awaiting me there.

Fond favors of fortune, that brighten and bless,

Drop down in my hands with the softess caress,

And I wish, with a sigh, I might ever remain

At my marvelous, far-away castle in Spain.

My castle in Spain is as light as the air,

For its walls are a dream and its roof is a prayer;

Its courts and its halls of such wonderful scope

I have gorgeously gemmed with the treasures of hope.

Its domes and its tapering spires are wrought

Of the mystical beauty that hides in a thought;

And to view them sweet fancy steals into my brain,

Where it sees, through a vision, my castle in Spain.

Love and Reason - Creative Souls Challenge Poem #12

"Love and Reason" by Nixon Waterman

The lily's lips are pure and white without a touch of fire;
The rose's heart is warm and red and sweetened with desire.
In Earth's broad fields of deathless bloom the gladdest lives are those
Whose thoughts are as the lily and whose love is like the rose.

Elements from Holliewood's "Stark" and "Rose" kits.

Creative Souls Story Time #5 - Quote

Our challenge was to illustrate the following quote:

"I pick my tree carefully.  A willow, not terribly tall but set in a clump of other willows, offering concealment in those long, flowing tresses.  I climb up, sticking to the stronger branches close to the trunk and find a sturdy fork for my bed."

From the book "The Hunger Games" by  Suzanne Collins.

Creative Souls Storytime Poem #4

Creative Souls is providing poems and quotes for us to stretch our artistic minds and illustrate. This weeks poem is:

The Song of the Robin

-by: Beatrice Bergquist (1900-1962)

The cows low in the pasture on the hill,
The bluebird sings building a nest,
The water is singing down by the mill-
But the robin's song is the best!
The squirrels are chattering in the trees,
The wind is blowing toward the west,
Around the flowers are humming bees-
But the robin's song is the best.
The dogwood trees are blossoming white,
The plough horse is neighing for rest,
The song sparrow is singing with all his might-
But the robin's song is the best.

Here is my strange illustration:

Creative Souls Story Time Quote 3

There is a wonderful group of digital artists who are posting bits of poems and then creating digital art as inspired by that poem. The poem for Quote 3 was: "I can't place a name or time to the girl's face. But I'm certain of it. The dark red hair, the striking features, the porcelain white skin." Below is the digital creation I ended up with. I tried doing a little bit of drawing with Photoshop, which I actually find quite difficult to do. It was fun to do, though.