by Natalie Kwon

Worlds
Read More »We don’t have specific issues with specific themes… We had a hard time with challenges and their deadlines… But, we still wanted to give our (potential) contributors a better feeling of what we are most interested in!
So, we decided to start a series of occasional writing (and art) prompts.
These will be completely non-binding and are only here to help inspire you and to keep us more concentrated on our mission 🙂
Feel free to join any time by sending us your thoughts, words and art!
The first introductory prompt is simple. Or is it? 😉
Read More »by Tanya Castro
Read More »There was something about creating at that age that felt like fear while feeling glorious.
And the dealer wants you thinking
That it’s either black or white
Thank God it’s not that simple
In my secret life
– Leonard Cohen, In My Secret Life (Ten New Songs, 2001)
Out of everything he wrote, the lyrics above might seem like a weird choice. But the truths we connect to in songs and art can sometimes be so simply put and still not lose the strength.
What are some of the verses of songs that touch and inspire you the most?
Feel free to share it with us in the comments below or on our social media channels.
by Marc Isaac Potter
As you look at the contradiction
Your teenage years are a raging fire
Read More »— Lucinda Chua, An Ocean (from her album YIAN, 4AD, 2023)
The waves swallow me whole Tides carry me home Then it hit me Like an ocean, an ocean
What’s your song of the week/month/year?
by Shamik Banerjee
Far, mid the mountain slopes, rises the sun
and the Pipit, hints the day has begun.
The ocean’s face, welcomes the sky in blue
and tunes appear from the nest of Cuckoo.
In pots with readiness, the new flowers,
twirl with glee towards the gleamy showers;
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