Category: Poetry

Have You Ever Seen the Rain,

On By ResaIn Murals, Poetry311 Comments

Coming Down on a Sunny Day?

I spotted this being painted while passing in a street car. I waited 3 days and returned.

The painting was not quite finished, and there was a cherry picker blocking the bottom. It was a sunny day, but I was in a mighty blue mood. Some rain had fallen in my life.

I waited 3 more days, and returned to the yellow and blue painting, like sun and rain, to me. I could heard this song. I had been hearing it for 3 days.

I mailed Holly and told her I found a painted poem. I sent a couple of pics and asked did she have any sun and rain poems? Any yellow and blue poems? She sent 3 poems, and a song.

September Rain

The rains come late; vanilla yogurt clouds deepen to ripe blueberry.
Twirling harlequins of wind sweep upward through the lush crowns of Lindens where birds weave wicker, dried stems, and waxy feathers, dripping pearly dew onto overgrown gardens.
Higher, squirrels shelter in rattan dreys, inky shadows among mottled rays that dance on puddles and glistening blades, the potpourri of life.

~~~ Holly Rene Hunter

One was not a rain on a sunny day poem. Rather, she sent flowers on a sun’s shore.

FLOWER GIRL

Where are you my love?
Chasing shadows along sun swept shores?

Turbulence has exfoliated the rosy blush from my cheeks. When we speak our words drift away on the wind.

If you should change your mind I’ll be waiting by the garden gate flowers in my hair.


– Holly Rene Hunter


It Feels Like Rain

The earthy scent of petrichor clings to our skin,  overflows my eyes,  slips down our cheeks to mingle with  salty lips.
We know how it feels to swim in sun drenched rivers,  to touch the moon and feel the sear of the  sun. 
Your song  fills the sky with falling stars.
But mine bring the rain…  
I bring the rain.
It feels like rain…
You know it feels like rain. 

– Holly Rene Hunter

Pics taken by Resa – September 1 & 4, 2025

Toronto, Canada

I GOT TO MEET THE ARTISTS!

Paul Jackson – https://pauljacksonlives.com/

@mony.zak on Instagram

CHEERS TO EVERY DAY!

Behind the Song: Suzanne

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🏒GO JETS 🏒 #WPGWhiteOut

I’m not sure who the singer was the first time I ever heard the song “Suzanne”, but it wasn’t Leonard Cohen. I adored it. A couple of decades passed before I realized Leonard Cohen wrote the song. Later, I found out it had originally been a poem.

Who better than to fill in more of the gaps, than Holly. A brilliant poet in her own right, she has inspired me greatly.

Scheheraholly II

On By ResaIn Poetry, Street Art203 Comments

Scheheraholly is inspired from a poem  written by Holly – House of Heart

It was like “A Thousand and One Arabian Nights”, and Holly was like a Scheherazade.

The day she posted the poem, I had found a piece of alley art that played into the whole idea, especially the second last line.

I named it Sheheraholly. Now, I have found Scheheraholly II

Behind a van on an urban desert sand,

no one can see her eyes through her art.

The amazing violin solo is 2.5 minutes

Pics taken by Resa – June 19, 2023

Toronto, Canada

The Artist:

Tender Places

On By ResaIn Poetry, Reblogs2 Comments

Beautiful words with a message. Thank you, Holly! ❤️🌹

Tender Places

The small lake shimmers with light

reeds rustle beneath

the feet of a fawn.

Leaning forward her pink tongue

curls backward

spattering the sweetness of life

into her nose and eyes.

Spotted ears pull sideways,

heeding the sigh of the forest,

the breath of a breeze.

The kiss of sunlight transforms

green to autumn gold, brown and rust.

beyond the edge of the wood

summer collides with fall

in  tender places of the wild.

Do No Harm

Street art poetry: Collaboration by Resa and i

On By ResaIn Poetry, Street Art47 Comments

This is Charlie Zero’s & my second Street Art Poetry collaboration. We want it to become a movement. There will be a third!

charliezero1.wordpress.com's avatarCharlie Zero The Poet

Resa Mcconaghy and I collaborated on ‘street art poetry’.
Her interpretation of my words is an 80’s futurism vibe,
blending psychedelic trance & sci-fi spectrum kaleidoscope colors.

She is a rock star and a brilliant painter/artist/poet/ designer/
& photographer. Much praise to her incredible work and contribution
to the arts and community. 🙂

Without further ado here’s a poem and photography of amazing art.

Unzip the clock –
Inside
origins pulsate.
Every color hatches
a rotten piano.

The Flowers blend in with the art.
Resa, you captured this shot so well. I love it. 🙂

This photo shot is perfect!

All the colors and the words awake the enigma eye.

The hot pink, black, green, & white looks so hypnotizing and spectacular.

The eye is unzipping the clock.

The Monarch Butterfly observing and understanding the poem. 🙂

Please visit Resa’s page:https://graffitiluxandmurals.com/

Art Gowns:https://artgowns.com/

Queen’s end: https://queensend.wordpress.com/

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You Put a Spell on Me

On By ResaIn Alley Gallery, Poetry65 Comments

You put a spell on me, now I’m the magic on this wall.

When Torch Singer Rene Rosso saw this captivating wall art, she felt the spell’s magic, and has added the mesmerizing Jay Hawkins song, “I Put a Spell on You” to her repertoire.

One of her fave renditions (of the uber many) is by Joss Stone.

Like the music, the art draws one in.

Rene Rosso and her alter ego Princess Blue Holly, are greatly influenced by Holly – House of Heart

Resa would like Rene Rosso to make the poem – black spell night – by Holly into a sultry Torch Song. Resa has designed the perfect gown (above) to go with it.

Click on the poem, and see the original post!

Pics taken by Resa – July 24, 2019

Toronto, Canada

Rene Rosso Character © Resa McConaghy (w/Holly Rene Hunter)

Rene Rosso artwork © Resa McConaghy – 2019