Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words
One image, one hour, 50-500 words.
The picture is the starting point, the text is up to you.

  • About
  • News
  • Index
  • Archive
  • Artists
  • Writers

mouth of darkness

The Deep

Amid fathoms

I See Everything

Céline felinity

Primordial Science

Bound

A Moment Of Freedom

The Bed Chase

Supernal Titillation

In the Turquoise Afterglow

War Games

Inside the Dark

My Purr

As Clean as Wright’s Coal Tar Soap

nodal

The Magician

See

If you listen closely, you can hear me whisper

The Proposal

Turning Point

ROVER

Breadwinner

Icebox with Plums

Now We Both Know

of tendencies: if the value of a cup is the emptiest space inside of it

Definitely Not Dirty Dancing

Devolution

Death of a Marriage

The Visit

Unshakeable

Infinite-hood

The Life You

Neon Nation

Freedom

None so blind as those who will not see

The Attic

Challenger Deep

Biblioteca

A MERMAID’S LAMENT

The (Thinking) Train

Timeless

David Ogilvy Blues

BACKPACK

Blind Man’s Bluff

Bella

Portraits

Exstinktion

Sunset

Temple Prowl

Lost Love

That’s no carp

Fly Fishing

Back to the Sea

Trust

Ignorance

FLEDGELING

Five Fingers Tense at the Keys

Your before

The Negotiator

In Darkness I See

Wellum

We Dream

sons

Clarissa

American Gothick

American Gothic Century

American Paradox

What The Eye Don’t See

CURSED

Prudence and a Pitchfork

The Cameo

OUTBREAK

The Suffering of An Old Art Lover

THE UTILITY OF SPADES

Hard Remainders

You Make Me Feel Un-American

The Wrinkle

American Gangster

Her One Condition

CRISIS

Every Morning

Now, Turn

Long Way

Schisms

Restraint

Maro Some Adda

Times Like These

Paradise

A SILENT RHYTHM OF SHADOWS

The Visitor

Unenlightened

Mother-in-law’s tongue

Malediction

The Trip to Banaras

Oh Henry

A Metaphor

“Children of the Wheat”

Ready

Good People

Floods

Whip hand

Pitchfork

Solo, ocular

Testing a Theory

American Gothic

Gothic Americans

Victorian values & black fingernails.

Appearances

Camouflage

In God We Trust

Collared

Our Gothic Dreamhouse

I See You

csi gothic

THE CALM SOLILOQUY BY THE OCEAN

Not Knowing

Ribbon Of Wrapture

Blue Planet

Desire Like A Day Waiting To Break

Likenesses

Conjuring and Remembrance

This House Between Our Ears

Beside Him

Josiah, Rebekah and Ruth

Perfect Hit

Thoughts on being led by a title

American Gothic

When we Walked with Jesus

Mountain Folk Tale

Judgement

Veins and Calluses

Ubiquitous

Ain’t No Wall High Enough

A Little Light

LESSONS

Simpler Times

In Optimism

Family Portrait

Manifest homestead

Those Not Here Any More

See The Woman In The Copper Lights

I Can See Your Bones!

Still

LEADING THE BLIND

With Caution

What Love

You Are The Woman Behind The Pitchfork

My desire is zaftig

The Louder Silence

“Let loose the doggerels of war…”

After the Storm

Quietude

Born Into Soon the Sky

Good

Hatchling

Understanding Masefield

Black Dog Fish

Εἰμαι

Don’t do it

Another One

NO THANK YOU

My Husband

The Multivalence

Neon

The phantasma

Vigiles

Flax and gauze

Evolving

Moments You Regret Not Being There For

The Thing Inside Me (or An Angry, Bloody Fist)

Eliot

A Brown Hair Day

The Inside of His Coat

a little break

One Step, Two Step

The Dream Lizard

THE IDLER RETURNS

Catch

Redzone

Eye

He Saw Red Dead Sirius in My Eyes

Encore

Men Who Throw Knives At Women

Jumping into the future

A Brief Moment In The Sun

Grey Noise

Red Dawn

In Collaboration with

Overdose

The Boy in the Water

someone

Come on, let’s drink from a glass of stars

The mysteries of the deep

The Guardians

Lullaby (for Avery)

ante meridiem III: dear “how-silently-the-heart-pivots-on-its-hinges,”

Poised

Leave-taking

The Lens

ELECTROMAGNUS

Water Wings

The fall

Catherine Wheel

Red Sky in the Morning

Flying

Turning Point

NO FLIGHT OF FANCY

Unconditional

Does the Light in Darkness Love the Dark?

Edward the Fish

SUNSHINE IN YOUR EYES

Fireworks

The star within

The Key is Hope

Backbone

Forget About Monkeys

The Silent Dancer Redux

Burning Reminder

Moonlight Medaka

My North Star

Avenging the Peacock of Angels

Electric

Nighttime Run-Thoughts

Fading light on the jetty

The Spark

Northern Star

Dive

Bones

Iris

Mortality-Natality

Reach Out with a Spiral Arm

Winchester

Still Shot at Sunset

Luciferase

Bugged

The Big Slide

Stained Piloting: the oceanic ethics of time and propulsion

Survivors

Suspended over my reflection

Eye of the Beholder

Autumn

The Eye

Leap

LONE

Letter to my Son

The Angels, They’re Falling

We Reigned Over Summer

helen’s bay

BASK

Resurrection

Disappearance

Beacon

The Pupil

See Me Jump

Fire and stars

Past the Bedtime of the Earth

ocular justification

The Big Picture

Starfish love

Skol

Body and Soul collateral

Electric Blue

Eyry

Beyond Our Realm

BUZZ KILL

Into the Unknown

Orange

DEEP REFLECTION

Under Fire

Balance

What would you do if the world wouldn’t end?

To yield is to

Clearances

Take Off

Restless

Soldiers of Fire

All The Men Went

Who Taught You To Sleep

Ouyooni

DEATH AND DESTRUCTION

Narcissus

The Star In My Eye

The First Girl on Mars

Structural

Unheard Frequencies

Inundation

In the Middle of the Summer Triangle

No Second Chances

This Place is Mine

Falling

THEURGY

An Undiscovered ‘Inns’

The Star-Eyed Girl Speaks Before Dying

Remained

Love in her eyes

personal space

The Attic Pyre

Twinkle in the eye

The Room

BETTER THE DEVIL

Skeletons

Laika

Neurosity: The Desire to Define

Creature Comforts

A Mother’s Gift

Vix

Anatomy of a Chair

Myopia

Arise

Heights

Navigation

Loft Studio

Echoes

It Was My Place Until You Found It

Magic Eggs

The Eye In My Pocket Is Burning Holes

Faded Pencil Marks

Obituary: His Excellency, Jabba the Hutt

Starting Again

Blubber

Flight

Imago

What a lark! Where’s the plunge?

Abandonment has left its mark

My Mind’s Eye in Autumn

Vespers

Catechizing

Tell me a story

ONE IN THE EYE

Be Still Time

NO WOMAN NO CRY

Then

Dive

Morning Coffee Can Be So Important

Tessa, That Time On Lake Toba

Still the fog. Still the little waiting heart.

All After

A Clear Well Lit Prediction

Small Boy on the Dock

The New Life

Soul-Seer

an invitation to a drowning

Blink!

Heights

History of an attic, now unused

Where’s Your Crown, King Nothing?

The Boy with Water Wings

Hidden Treasure

Memories

Stars in our eyes

An Essence Remains

When All Is Said and Done

Autumn Glory

The Present Moment

 Ghosts

a mother’s suicide

Water into Wine

Let’s

The Other Side

Where We Were Happiest

The truth as understood by a child

The night zoo in orange

Of Grandma & Her Favorite Chair

Drowning on dry land

Heart of phoenix, the fire bird

When Fear and Loathing Burn So Bright

The Star

outside your house

Hollow Eyed

noise

Moulting

JUMP. DON’T JUMP

Shiv

EXPECTING THE CLARION

The Scimitar

Creative Writing

Vacate 60

Freedom

Blink and you will miss it!

Claiming Fables

Fibres

The Form Everyone Needs

TIP

Fossilising

On the Other Side

Gethsemane

He Sings of Hawks

I was seen by the wind chime

The Old Man With The Bins

If Not For This

A JOURNEY

Magic Eye

Impassivhaus

SEEING STARS

SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW

Keen

Observation of the Stars

Autumn

Then

The First Wave

Eagerly

Greenland Mills

The Debris

Bearings

Stiff upper lifebelt

Slats of Light

The illusion

The Shore

Grand Designs

A New World Awaits

TIME TO REFLECT

Blink and you will miss it!

Next Time

The Man on the Dock

Towards Nothingness in Orangey World

The Family Archive

Where Destroyed Things Go

Morning Star

River Trip

Star Trekking

The Chair

Child on the Shore

The New Mandarin

Un-swallows the attic

The Pickpocket

Falling Forever

Eminent Scientist Returns!

beside him/inside him

Open Skylight

Under The Stars, Safely

Sunset

Generation Rent

Glory March

Listen…They’re Talking!

Time for a visit

Company Man

The Pathos of An Attic

Musings by the Sea

Surrounded

Moving On

Dialogue

We took to the rain

Tea and Ennui

Getting Out

Wanting more

Massacre

COMMUTE

Somewhere Beautiful

An Epiphany moment

Modern Art is Rubbish

The Edge of Tomorrow

A weekend away

When I left home

Hymn for the man by Periyar

The boy who could levitate

Me and me sister

Bass Cleft

All the Space is Hers

Aerodynamics of Meditation

Fathomless Pits of Bliss

tears

The beach

Pumpkin Eyes

Sandy-Shoed Brucealike Has Mid-Desert Identity Crisis

Interupted tracks

Grandma’s Last Days

Six False Starts

Daddy’s Home

Stolen Strings

Bosch’s prayers

The Star

A Slow Drowning And Then A Leap

FADING

resonance

If there is a boy there

Whale Bone Idol

Grit

Craa craa

Sisterhood

A Visitor

The Fire Triangle

Cloud-Spotting

OneTwoOne

inflatable elephant

Album Art

Sea… or sky?

Solo

¿O

LEADERSHIP POTENTIAL

The Swimaway

Sand Song

Soul mate

Away

You have to trust

African Sun

Setting Sights

Drawing the line on the horizon

Walkabout

Bright Spot

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
NCLA logo

We are grateful to the support of Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA) who maintain the valuable literary archive that is Visual Verse.

To find out more visit the NCLA website.

Privacy Policy       ©Visual Verse 2026. All rights reserved.