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A place for things that I find amusing, eerie, and/or alluring. • My Poetry

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Rick Stevens, USA Descent of a Mountain Stream (2023) oil on canvas 122 x 91.4 cm

[wizardarchives]

Gandalf and Bilbo by Tim Kirk (1974)

[weepingwidar]

Kristoffer Zetterstrand (Swedish, 1973) - Skull on Fire (2010)

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Albireo, Beta Cygni

[the-wordslinger]

After the Rain

The roof sings of the beloved

Through a raindrop symphony song

A downpour of devotion

Sending our ears to the evening star

After the rain

Flares burst from beads of dew

Like the touch of your gossamer skin

Made thin by the affinity

Made strong by the fervor within

[nevver]

[nevver]

Bride of blood, John Brosio (@johnbrosioart)

[70sscifiart]

Karl Stephan’s cover art for issue 534 of the German magazine Terra

[the-wordslinger]

My Love is Nimble

Oh, I will get there With plenty of sweet moments To spare with your smile

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Vega, Alpha Star

[70sscifiart]

Jack Guaghan

[389]

The Status of Things Elizabeth Shull Colored pencil on paper

[70sscifiart]

Richard Hescox, “First Contact.” When I wanted to include this artwork in my art collection, I reached out to the artist for more information on where it was first published and got a surprising answer: Never. Hescox created it as a sample for his portfolio in 1975.

My art collection has a nice clean version of it in my section about gunfights in space. So, today is the first time this one has appeared in print!

My book “Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s” is out now, get it here!

[70sscifiart]

And it’s now out in the UK as of today! Check over here for a list of the stores you can order it from!

[nevver]

[nevver]

Somewhere, Hiroshi Nagai

[redlipstickresurrected]

Bahram Hajou (Syrian, b. 1952, Deruna, Syria) - Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait), 1988, Paintings: Oil on Canvas

[the-wordslinger]

The Right Word

Within the right word Lives a field of bright poppies Blanketed by a song of the swooner lark

And I know you hear it too

So say the word like silk For only two can sail up high On the whispering wings of serendipity It was the only word of the elementals Longer-lived than divine pride Stronger-still than god itself And I know you hear it too

[lepetitdragonvert]

Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare

1899

Artist : Paul Woodroffe

[expressions-of-nature]

by Frank Paul Silye