My Ideal Job

I Am

director of inspiration,
pursuer
of creative fulfillment,
student
of artistic experiments.

Quirky faces,
and poetic daydreams are my resume.

Susan Stone

(copyright protected)

To My Better Half

thirty one years later

hair grayed
skin sags
crows feet mark
eyes edge
we wear
lifelines
like maps
day after day
hour to hour
every dawn
and kaleidoscopic
minute

and always

you are my hero

copyright Susan Stone

Every day is hat day…

but sick days are must wear

Sad Sick Hair

strands
stray right
limp left
a tangled disarray
fall towards the floor
sick hair starved
of shampoo

art and poem are the copyright property of

Susan Stone

Art Feeds My Soul

This image speaks to the artist and poet who bravely creates art without giving power to those

who judge or criticize.

Art experiments feeds my soul.

Pandemic Lonely

Pandemic Lonely

I am the heartbeat
in a room of paper-thin
strangers

once comforted
like a couch blanket,
now, silent faces
stare from four walls
like caged cons.

It’s been over a year
and I miss you, world.

Your coffeeshop chatter
and clicking cups
and midday
chocolate croissants.

Your storefronts
in yellows shirts
and brown shorts
with shoppers
in glass windows.

Suitcases stuffed with

sundresses,
sandals and swimwear

on airplanes
with wings and wind
to seashell beaches
of breezy evenings
and drumbeat music.

Just two shots
in the upper arm
with sharp needles.

Then

I’ll hug a son,
I’ll breathe in his scent,
I’ll touch his naked face.

By Susan Stone

Copyright Susan Stone’s Photo Art

A Busy Heart

I send this smile to your busy heart

 

Ink and Procreate drawing–Susan Stone copyright 2018

Finding Joy

“Find your joy,”
I scream.
But you don’t hear me.

 

copyright 2018 susan stone

Mixing it Up

My years as a portrait and pet photographer, digital photo artist, mixed media artist, and abstract painter is influencing my drawing, and maybe this is why I draw faces and animals. Realistic views are for my camera. I like to draw exaggerated features that bring out personality.

copyright Susan Stone 2018

Starting Again

I look to the shelf at my sketchbooks of face drawings and pen and ink drawings of rescue dogs and cats. Simple, imperfect sketches that are perfect in many ways. Because in January, I started drawing, and starting is everything. If you don’t start, you don’t get better. And if you don’t start because you think you can’t draw, well, you can’t because you never started. So I am patting myself on the back for starting, and I’m patting myself on the back for continuing daily drawing for the months that I kept going. And today, I’m kicking my butt to start again because I know that my imperfect drawings will get better–one drawing at a time.

Copyright Susan Stone 2018

​Saved From Nothing To Say

A message on my watch,
saved from nothing to say.
So we will eat eggs and toast,
and enjoy another cup of joe.
I’ll read this another day and
think why
these words when really,  I
had nothing to say.

Susan Stone copyright 2018