Annie Savoy - ANNIE SAVOY: Ekphrasis Inverted

portals

11/4/2023

'Know thyself’ was written over the portal of the antique world.
Over the portal of the new world, ‘Be thyself’ shall be written.
— Oscar Wilde

Sinful Sunday

Sinful Sunday November Prompt "Quote"

bait

10/28/2023

She has no need to chase.
She sits quietly, her patience a consummate force;
she waits for her prey to come to her on their own,
and then she ensnares them.
― Donna Lynn Hope

Sinful Sunday

cure

10/6/2023

Art is my cure to all this madness, sadness and
loss of belonging in the world
and through it I'll walk myself home.
— Nikki Rowe

Sinful Sunday

touch

9/30/2023

She says, I want you to touch me
as if you want to know me,
not arouse me.
- Li-Young Lee

Sinful Sunday

October Prompt - Clothes On

your ideas

9/22/2023

I want your blessing
the whole town’s blessing
by spilling red wine on your lips
and kissing your idea
of me
— Matthew Rohrer

Sinful Sunday

here

9/15/2023

Enough. These few words are enough.
If not these words, this breath.
If not this breath, this sitting here.
This opening to the life
We have refused again and again
Until now.
Until now.
— David Whyte

Sinful Sunday

sky

9/8/2023

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.
— Pema Chödrön

Sinful Sunday

melancholy

8/26/2023

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
― Victor Hugo

Sinful Sunday

conversation

8/18/2023

Take your hand
and place your hand
some place
upon your body.
And listen
to the community of madness
that
you are.

You are
such an
interesting conversation.

You belong
here.
— Pádraig Ó Tuama

Sinful Sunday

repose

8/11/2023

Travelers repose and dream among my leaves.
— William Blake

Sinful Sunday