Tag: poetry

odds

Illustrated noir woman sitting before a slot machine with stock market charts, gambling symbols, journal, and cocktail beside her in a visual poem titled "The Odds."

The Odds is a visual poem about chasing impossible wins—through gambling, love, and life itself. Blending noir-inspired artwork with stock market symbolism, it reflects on heartbreak, uncertainty, and learning when to stop betting against yourself.

new year

A new year withNo room for old tearsOr resistance fromSlicing away aged fearsI’ve got my jaded leatherGloves on I’m ready forThe shears of the eternityOf fresh beginningsAnd know babyIt hasn’t just occurred to meThat you aren’t confinedYet a lovely sifted throughSandy find The birds are dreaming withWolves bellowing highWater washing bright theFossilized lie free that […]

street nights

An original mixed-media poetry collage by The Ivory Rose depicting a surreal dreamscape where a blonde woman peacefully sleeps upon a rainbow ascending toward a glowing heavenly doorway. Filled with stars, butterflies, hot air balloons, flowers, celestial imagery, stained glass, and handwritten poetry, the artwork symbolizes emotional healing, childlike wonder, imagination, and the desire to find peace beyond life's hardships. The collage blends fantasy illustration, vintage paper textures, and symbolic storytelling into a vibrant visual poem.

Where city lights meet wildflowers and moonlight becomes a guide, this symbolic visual poem follows birds, fairies, dandelions, and hidden stars through a landscape where love asks only one thing: keep moving forward.

grey heron

Mixed-media collage portrait illustrating a poem through symbolic imagery including an octopus tentacle, caterpillars, butterflies, a grey heron, birds, ocean landscapes, flowers, and a tattooed woman representing love, transformation, memory, and the many layers of the human spirit.

A surreal exploration of love through octopus tentacles, tigers, grey herons, birds, and angels. This symbolic poem reflects how every person is a collage of instincts, tenderness, memory, and spirit.

soul

TransformationInternal churningClay infestationSticks of sage burningA hole right in theSoul of the few shirts February 8 20159:10am-10:38am by the ivory rose

333

3 dollars and 33 cents for aGallon to get you where you’d likeTo go as far as your automobile willTake you Shift into one laneMarch one by oneLeft by rightRight by right