belladonnis

Thanks so much, its feels great to win a challenge after being away for so long!
I would love to see what kind of pictures that you create from your favorite poems, stories, or bible verses.
The pictures inspired by poems or stories can be from books or from your own musings. Feel free to add them along with your picture or if they are to long please add the titles so that we can read the insperation behind the picture.
Challenge starts today Feb 2 and last untill Feb 21st.
Can't wait to see what comes in!!!!

Shanley

very nice challenge, Belladonis. I'd like to add an oldie (for now):
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=89102
and here are the lyrics that inspired it from
My Heart Leaps Up (- by William Wordsworth - )

My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky.
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I grow old,
Or let me die!

Dragon

Here are a couple of oldie from me. Both of them are accompanied by poems from Dennis Lee.

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=37226

Alligator Pie:

Alligator Pie, Alligator Pie,
If I don't get some I think I'm gonna die.
Give away the green grass, give away the sky,
but don't give away my Alligator Pie.

Alligator Stew, Alligator stew,
If I don't get some I don't know what I'll do.
Give away my furry hat, give away my shoe,
but don't give away my Alligator Stew.

Alligator Soup, Alligator Soup,
if I don't get some I think I'm gonna droop.
Give away my hockey stick, give away my hoop,
but don't give away my Alligator Soup.


http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=41921

Mississauga Rattlesnakes:

Mississauga rattlesnakes
Eat brown bread.
Mississauga rattlesnakes
Fall down dead.
If you catch a caterpillar
Feed him apple juice;
But if you catch a rattlesnake
Turn him loose!

marg

Hmm.. well, I hope I've understood the challenge, and apologies as always for the lack of time..

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161617

Yesterday, upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there..
He wasn't there again today -
Oh, how I wish he 'd go away..

mdawrcn

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161637

Trees
By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

sandm

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161645

Because I have so many photographies "Leaves in the sky"

Das helle Licht, tausendfach gebrochen durch die dichten Blätter der Laubbäume, schien auf einmal ganz anders in mein Gesicht als vorher. Es war, als sähe ich die tausend ungeborenen Ideen funkeln, lauter Möglichkeiten, die darauf warteten, zur Welt zu kommen. In ihenen wohnte eine Kraft, die nicht aufzuhalten war, auch wenn mein Buch vollständig danebenging. Aber darauf kommt es gar nicht an - DIESE KRAFT IST VIEL GRÖSSER ALS EINZELNE IDEEN. Es ist die Kraft, aud der sie alle zu stammen scheinen. Das gab mir Mut.

Alexander Jeanmaire: "Der kreative Funke"

Normal

Another oldie - last verse of William Cullen Bryant's "TO A WATERFOWL"
(Love this challenge! I'm thinking...)
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=88742

He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky thy cdrtain flight,
In the long way that I must tread alone,
Will lead my steps aright.

Normal

"certain flight!" Dang - thought I reread it.

Normal

Another old one,
from Robert Frost's STOPPING BY A WOOD ON A SNOWY EVENING

(I didn't quite get to the snowy season)
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=120731

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

belladonnis

Its great to see whats coming in both old and new!

I hope you dont mind SANDM I translated your lovely poem to english, I hope the translation is correct.

The bright light, thousandfold broken by the close sheets of the deciduous trees, shined at one time completely differently into my face than before. It was, as if I would see the thousand unborn ideas sparkling, loud possibilities, which waited for it, of coming to the world. In ihenen lived a Kraft, which was not to be stopped, even if my book beside-went completely. But whereupon it does not come at all on THESE KRAFT IS MUCH LARGER THAN INDIVIDUAL IDEAS. It is Kraft, aud that them all to come seems. That gave me courage. Alexander Jeanmaire: " The creative Funke"

I'm going to try to create my own!!!!

Normal

If you put leaves (instead of sheets) on the trees you're almost there!

Also Kraft = Power and Funken = Sparks.
Her picture shows the metaphor beautifully.

belladonnis

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161661


Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Here is the section of the poem that inspired my work.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

belladonnis

Hey thanks Normal on the translation.
I used a translater on my computer so you are right about the leaves instead of sheets, it does fit her picture perfectly!

jaybuddy

bad kitty

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161721


ignore that cat
don't feed her
you know you won't keep her

that skinny kitty
that plain little thing

she is untame
you don't know where she's been
it is a feral thing
not to be trusted
nor cared for

if you try to feed
a damned cat
she's gonna be a mess
she will stay at your door
until you are
fed up

'no more, bad cat! '
you're gonna tell her
'go! '
so she'll leave
even lonelier than before

clorophilla

Mmmhm... my favourite poems are in ITALIAN! Hope I'll find something that fits the challenge and not difficult to post in English...

polenta

"First they came…" is a famous statement attributed to pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. The text of the quotation is usually presented roughly as follows:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.

This is a very famous poem and people have wrongly said it was written by Bertold Brecht. I don't feel capable of drawing about it but maybe someone likes it and can draw about it.

belladonnis

That is very powerful polenta and even though this was in reference to the Nazi's it still holds true today. We all need to be vigilant and aware of those that are in power.

Loved your poem jaybuddy! I can just see in your picture the phrase 'no more, bad cat! '
you're gonna tell her
'go! '

Can't wait to see and read what comes next!

Shanley

Oh, I'm looking forward to finding some time to add something in here! Meanwhile, I must say reading the poems and checking out the pics for this challenge has been a delight so far.

mdawrcn

http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=161670
The Raven
In honor of Baldur posting Edgar Alan Poe’s famous poem here:
http://www.thinkdraw.com/forumPosts.php?topicId=172&s=9940
I won’t repost the whole poem.

mdawrcn

sorry, Edgar Allan Poe and January is the anniversary of the poem first being published in 1845.