Quote for Today: Charlotte Eriksson
© Takeaway with CCLicense the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken words and turn it into music. Turn it into poetry. And I sing to make myself come alive, but...
View ArticleTrash Talking: Letters From Discarded Paper, Introduction and First Set
Synkroniciti is very excited to unveil our first online collaborative project, titled Trash Talking: Letters from Discarded Paper. It features provocative images by Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh paired with...
View ArticleTrash Talking: Letters from Discarded Paper, Second Set
Cruelty is a consequence of ignorance. What happens to our world and our relationships when we regard them as disposable? These images by photographer Michael Bogdanffy-Kriegh inspired me to write...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Jeanette LeBlanc
Mutability© Katherine McDaniel, 2015 yes, I have feelings and no, I’m not afraid of them not even the shadowy ones that you’d rather ignore i gather them in welcome them home give them space to breathe...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Theodore Roethke
Metacognition© Maria Morri with CCLicense This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have...
View ArticleQuote for Today: W.B. Yeats
The Cat and the Moon The cat went here and there And the moon spun round like a top, And the nearest kin of the moon, The creeping cat, looked up. Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon, For, wander...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Rainer Maria Rilke
© Ton Haex with CCLicense She was no longer that woman with blue eyes who once had echoed through the poet’s songs, no longer the wide couch’s scent and island, and that man’s property no longer. She...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Larissa Lai
The library was a great sprawling complex with rolls and rolls of paper tucked into many shelves. Between the reading rooms were courtyards with living fountains and singing birds and butterflies that...
View ArticleHere Comes the Rain Again: Dripping Diamonds by Ofelia Adame Williams
Synkroniciti is ecstatic to present an original work created for our Open Mic last month by Ofelia Adame Williams. While sitting in her car between her day job and her night/weekend job as a chorister...
View ArticleMost Popular Original Works of 2015
Synkroniciti is all about making things. These ten posts feature the most viewed pieces of art that were produced by synkroniciti in 2015. Click on the title to view the post. 2015 featured our first...
View ArticleQuote for Today: David Byrne
I wouldn’t be surprised if poetry – poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs – is how the world works. The world...
View ArticleDigging Together: Synkroniciti’s Building Bridges
Synkroniciti’s latest Open Mic was a wonderful, intimate conversation about building and being bridges in our communities, families and world. On Saturday, February 20th, eight souls (seven human, one...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Gaston Bachelard
We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have...
View ArticleTwo Views from a Cage: Adjoining Cells by Katherine McDaniel
When two people settle into a pattern of behavior it becomes increasingly difficult to change habits. In some cases, it may be that those very habits are all that connect us. For some people, the...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Meraaqi
I want to peel away all the labels I had once given to others and place them upon the fabric of my own identity. They have reflected back to me, everything that I refuse to See in myself. ―Meraaqi,...
View ArticleTen Most Popular Articles of 2016
These are the ten most viewed articles written in 2016. I am excited that many of them involve experiences and works from our synkroniciti Open Mics, which were happening once a month until our house...
View ArticleTop Ten Originals of 2016
Here are the ten most viewed original art pieces posted in 2016. Synkroniciti is so proud that you like viewing the things we make! We look forward to producing many new things in 2017 and the years...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Patti Smith
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. “I can’t do this,” I said. “I don’t know what to say.” “Say anything,” he said. “You can’t make a...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. –Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Public Domain Image via Pexels.com
View ArticleWhere is the Refuge? The Melody of our Alienation
The power of the spoken word and the captured image can be woven together in a way that evades description. I thought I had finished synkroniciti’s short cycle on Yemen, when I ran across this...
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