Raising Awareness of Global Concerns through a Marriage of the Arts
To illuminate this time and space we all float in.
Welcome to The Abstractaphy Initiative, a place where artists and writers come to express their thoughts on the state of, and future of, the planet and its residents. This website is an artistic project designed to raise awareness of global issues, foster appreciation for the world we live in, and promote thought towards new ideas for action in the present that will positively impact the future.
We accept virtually every kind of poetry known to humanity and will even accommodate translations if accompanied by an English version. We also accept art that addresses the above goals.
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Last 10 Posts
By Debbie Strange
Canada
Halibut, October 2018
By Debbie Strange
Canada
Failed Haiku Journal of English Senryū, Volume 4, Issue 39, March 2019
By Debbie Strange
Canada
Prune Juice (cover), Issue 38, December 2022
Folio by Gary LeBel
Haiku by Takuboku Ishikawa (1886-1912)
By Regina (Gina) Piroska
Tasmania, Australia
Heat hangs, torrid, pressing upon tired shoulders.
Touched by the occasional warm starfish an ancient, patchy, bird-shit monument kneels in puddled sand beneath a sky stitched to the sea.
below blue
sails billow
over blue
Ripples circle the rock where, in the tide’s cloud-crawl, tiny crabs get on with their crabby lives and I wonder how words can convey this sense without images to the eye.
On this slow, tedious, amplified afternoon, I lean against the colossus baffled by the clamour of these idiot gulls, ignorant in the art of give and take, because it’s perfectly clear who should yield.
crushed
shell in a footprint
empty beach
First Published in Drifting Sands Haibun, January 2022
~ Adelaide B Shaw guest editor.
A review of Walking Widdershins: An Ode to Joy
Jenny Ward Angyal & Autumn Noelle Hall (Illustrations by Denver Kennedy Hall)
By: Don Miller
Cloudcroft, New Mexico
By Richard Grahn
By Kah Ho (Image)
and Gary LeBel (Text)
Artwork: Katrin Davis
Tanka: Tish Davis
By: Anna Cates, Wilmington, Ohio
and Steve Van Allen, Cincinnati, Ohio
even on gray days
the sun fights to silver sheen
beyond cloud cover
We held the door for a lady, dragging two wheeled suitcases, balancing a shopping bag on one. Her long black coat was nice, years ago. She parked her bags inside the door and shuffled to the counter. “I have 4 dollars,” dragging wrinkled ones from a pocket.
“Keep your money; I’ll cover it,” said the manager.
We took our order and began eating. When the manager swung by our booth, we thanked her.
“I’m from Louisiana. I was homeless, and an addict. I know,” she said.
The lady talked to her meal as she ate, and when she was through, wheeled all her worldly goods out the door.
first snow
disappearing with her
silent dreams
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