The Knight of the Holy Grail
- Artist: Frederick Judd Waugh (American, 1861–1940)
- Date: circa 1912
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, United States
"Love is what makes the world go around. I know it's a big cliche to use, but it is the absolute truth. There is nothing else like it. I know that is what everybody is striving to feel: in relationships, in brother- and sisterhood, and in all of the things that we aspire to have in our lives."
~ Gladys Knight
Painting • Sisterhood • Joanie Tomanek
Love, Hope and Faith
By Rusty Ed Gibson
We live tomorrow the dreams of today Our hopes of the future gives us faith along the way
Love is the river of this wakened state Its never out of time its never too late
It gives us life as it flows through our lives It tears through confusion loneliness and strife
Love cuts a clear path through the test of time You can see where it has been and watch it unwind
Free as a river that you can’t control You can’t even say where it might flow
Hope is a power that cant be taken away It can pull you through even the toughest of days
Hope can keep you going when everything else fails It keeps you company on the loneliest of trails
Faith is ever daring in the face of defeat It can bring you courage that nothing can beat
Faith is never doubting in yourself or your beliefs Holding on to what you know when content is just a dream
Faith can give you strength to face what the future brings Combined with hope and love you only need the three of these
Love is like a River Hope is like a dream Faith is just believing with nothing to be seen
So dream of tomorrow and Love for today Hope with all your heart Let Faith show you the way
❣️Painting By Shawna Erback aka Moon Parlor Art
"Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us." ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Art by Eva Grossmann
“Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil – the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.” ~ William George Jordan
💓Art by Amanda Cass
“Love recognizes no barriers, it jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination, full of hope.”
- Maya Angelou
🩷🌻Art: Lovers and Sunflowers by Trudi Doyle Art
“Sometimes you want to say, “I love you, but…”
Yet the “but” takes away the ‘I love you’. In love their are no ‘buts’ or ‘if’s’ or ‘when’. It’s just there, and always. No beginning, no end. It’s the condition-less state of the heart. Not a feeling that comes and goes at the whim of the emotions. It is there in our heart, a part of our heart…eventually grafting itself into each limb and cell of our bodies. Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death.
To say “I love you, but….” is to say, “I did not love you at all”.
I say this to you now: I love you, with no beginning, no end. I love you as you have become an extra necessary organ in my body. I love you as only a girl could love a boy. Without fear. Without expectations. Wanting nothing in return, except that you allow me to keep you here in my heart, that I may always know your strength, your eyes, and your spirit that gave me freedom and let me fly.”
~ Jamie Weise
Photograph: A Love Story by Kim Hojnacki
Home and Love Poem
By Robert William
Just Home and Love! the words are small Four little letters unto each; And yet you will not find in all The wide and gracious range of speech Two more so tenderly complete: When angels talk in Heaven above, I'm sure they have no words more sweet Than Home and Love.
Just Home and Love! it's hard to guess Which of the two were best to gain; Home without Love is bitterness; Love without Home is often pain. No! each alone will seldom do; Somehow they travel hand and glove: If you win one you must have two, Both Home and Love.
And if you've both, well then I'm sure You ought to sing the whole day long; It doesn't matter if you're poor With these to make divine your song. And so I praisefully repeat, When angels talk in Heaven above, There are no words more simply sweet Than Home and Love.
Digital Art: Serenity House by Working Girl Art
“I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle.
This is how we heal. I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you.
And I will not be afraid of your scars.
I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.”
~ Clementine von Radics
💓Digital Painting • Waiting for the Train
Love in Isolation • Urvi Kulkarni-Grade
"Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.
~ Robert Brault
🌖🌙 Digital Art • Reconciliation • Inge Schuster
"Home is where the heart is; how many times have we all heard that expression? When love is put into action, it can be felt by everyone who crosses the threshold. We are custodians of the four walls we inhabit, but we are responsible for the homes we make and the love we created within them. I celebrate my home and always love coming home."
~ Lisa Azarmi
💗🌛🏡🌻Digital Art • Juan Brufal
Love After Love Poem
By Derek Walcott
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other's welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was yourself. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.
🎣Untitled • Sonia Alins, Artist and Illustrator
Love, Hope and Faith Poem 💓
By Rusty Ed Gibson
We live tomorrow the dreams of today Our hopes of the future gives us faith along the way
Love is the river of this wakened state Its never out of time its never too late
It gives us life as it flows through our lives It tears through confusion loneliness and strife
Love cuts a clear path through the test of time You can see where it has been and watch it unwind
Free as a river that you can't control You can't even say where it might flow
Hope is a power that cant be taken away It can pull you through even the toughest of days
Hope can keep you going when everything else fails It keeps you company on the loneliest of trails
Faith is ever daring in the face of defeat It can bring you courage that nothing can beat
Faith is never doubting in yourself or your beliefs Holding on to what you know when content is just a dream
Faith can give you strength to face what the future brings Combined with hope and love you only need the three of these
Love is like a River Hope is like a dream Faith is just believing with nothing to be seen
So dream of tomorrow and Love for today Hope with all your heart Let Faith show you the way
Painting by Shawna Erback aka Moon Parlor Art