We had 24 artists at this month’s collaborative meeting! Praise God!

If you are new to the C.cada scene here is our mission statement:

C.cada (Cornerstone Christian artist’s day apart) was begun in an effort to give artists from every genre an opportunity to come together to discover, develop, and deploy their talents in ways that will better the church and the community.

Yesterday we met, had breakfast then painted, wrote, played and carved away the morning.  After lunch  we met for a collaborative Bop session….That is we learned and practiced writing bop poetry. Here are some of our submissions:

Best Intentions

by Jill Poland

used by permission

 

Oh Glorious garden of beauty and peace

Suddenly decimated by an invasion of hungry pests.

All I wanted was to enjoy the fragrance.

All I needed was some rest.

Why does this always happen?

Why, oh why, did I allow those locusts in?

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon

 

I know God’s Garden is eternal,

But the destruction looks so real.

Oh I hate those lying vermin

Destroying my refuge.

Where did my pretty flowers go?

I must find the way out,

Out of the darkness and the lies.

I know my hope is true.

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon

 

I stop staring at the broken flowers

Mangled and left to die.

I sprinkle that dark shadowy place

With faith and hope and love.

With the lying shadows dispelled, my garden reappears!

My lovely peaceful garden that was always truly there!

 

Never answer the phone on a Friday afternoon.

Tares & Wheat

by Charlotte Dorais

used by permission

 

Green spikey leaves

Yellow flowers explode into puffs

Grass connected by roots

Flowerless but determined

Spreading beyond boarders

Over shadow petals of color

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow

 

Brown tinged flowerless spikes

Erupt and march across

Tender young greens

Sweet succulent fodder

Encourage visitation

Tall slender stocks invade

Red white blue yellow and purple

Peak through

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow

 

Kneeling digging bending

Pulling careless of stains

Black crescent nails

Breaking and splitting

Covering that which

 Remains hidden

 

Uproot teardown destroy and overthrow