art & poetry side by side

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April 19th, 2015

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We hope you will enjoy this booklet that fea-

tures Art & Poetry Side by Side created by

people with and without disabilities. The

art featured was selected from gallery265's

March 2015 Artist's Choice Exhibition. The

poetry shown was submitted to a committee

in response to these art pieces.

gallery265 is an art gallery that focuses on

inclusion by providing opportunities for all

artists, particularly those living with disabil-

ities to exhibit their works along side com-

munity artists.

*Artists supported by Arc of Westchester.

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MouseThe mouse feeding on a nut.The mouse is black and brown.The floor is brown.My mouse is happy. Poem and Illustration by Judy*

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Flower TreeThis is a pictureThis is a flower.And this oneis a flower.What is this?It is a tree.It is a branch.

Look outside.Look there.Outside is a tree.Outside isa branch.Outside isno flowers.It is winter. Poem and IllustrationBy Sue*

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Wonder Squares within squares Circles within circles Red licking orange Orange hugging red Our bodies and our hearts

ever entwined.

By Harriet Shenkman

Pastel Wonder by Susan Green*

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Life Was Just A Moment Ago by Stevie Rosenfeld

A Haiku Raucous geese landing,Loud tourists out-gaggle them,Peaceful lake no more. By Anonymous

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Flowers

Pretty and nice to look at.They are painted.They used a paintbrush.The painter likes flowers.They are tulips,and a rose.Those I don't know. Poem and Illustration By Karen*

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Baby

BabyI like babyNice. Good.The baby sleepingThe baby dreamingGood dreamSally good name for baby,maybe. By Joella*

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Wonder Woman by GG Kopliak

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What Can I Be?What am I supposed to be?Mamma told me, be a lady.Daddy told me, use your manners.Sister told me, you can’t change the worldbut if you try you’ll be a sweet little girl.Brother told me, take off that superhero costume, there’s already enough muscle without you.Grandma told me you don’t have to be good at math, that’s for men.I shouldn’t be a hero.

What do I want to be?A woman of power and grace.A woman of smarts and dignity.I want to fly and be free.I shouldn’t want to wear high heels and lipstick.I want to be strong and brave.I want to be a hero.

What Can I Be?I can be good at math.Who needs boys to like me?I can like myself.I can keep my high heels.I can keep my lipstick.I can hold my head up and fly.I can save the innocent and wear a dress.I can be a hero.

What am I?A rebel.But I am brave.I am my own girl.I am strong.I am a hero in high heels. By Mia Shenkman

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Flowers

Pretty and nice to look at.They are painted.They used a paintbrush.The painter likes flowers.They are tulips,and a rose.Those I don't know. Poem and Illustration By Karen*

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Suitcase

You take it to camp.Camp Ecco.Take toothbrush.Take swimming trunk.You carry it.You open it.You swim.Take my radio too.All in the suitcase.I like camp, Yeh.And a guitar too. By Leeroy*

Illustration by Ben*

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SHADOWSFluttering 'round, my shadows go,

laloping silently, to and fro.Hoping they're friendly, tho'

scared of their powerto vanish sweet joys as

found in each hour.

Passive too long,I've allowed them to grow

from little chimeras refusing to go.Now I must face them

regardless of painfor brighter tomorrows

and loving, again.

By Jay Albrecht

At Night by Mount Kisco Day Habilitation*

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A MotleWhen in the southern sun of boyhoodI caught lightly in my fingersA butterfly black and dappled;With fascination, infatuation, I pulledApart each velvet segmentTo find its mystery.Tearfully I found in the tearingThe secret had flutteredAnd gone.I later learned to share their sun,And the mystery was mine.

By Anonymous

Playtime by Wendy Coffrin* & Jessica Jankus*

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Tiger

A tiger.He is laying down.He is watching something,listening something.

The Tiger is in a cave.He is a big tigerHe has big pawsHe has wistkers too.I love tigers. By Danielle*

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The City

There are tall buildings in the cityThe building has apartment and storesPeople live in the apartmentThe apartments look darkIt is night in the cityPeople are sleepingThe sun will come out soon By Kevin*

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Lighthouse

In Maine you have them,in New Hampshireyou have them,and Cape Cod has some.Plymouth I don't know.

They have a place for a man.He puts on the light at night.The man is on duty.So the boats don't crash,or have an accident on the rocks

In Maine you have them,and yes in New Hampshire and Cape Cod too. By Jimmy*

Illustration by Margaret C.*

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Celebrating The New Bridge

A new bridge is being built to stay Rockland and Westchester will be connected in a new way

A painting created I do displayWater, the bridge ,apartments buildings, trees and a water

fountain that spraysColors painted

Violet,blue,red,orange,brown ,yellow, green and grayEnjoy my painting every day on display

Poem and Illustration

By Daniel Kabakoff

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My Cat Felicity

The cat is running around the house.The cat is looking for some food to eat.

The cat is looking for a mouse.The cat is looking for toys.

The cat she loves.She is not a real cat.But don't tell anyone. Poem and Illustration By Patty*

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Highways

A lot of carsThe cars are going somewhere.Friends, museum,airport, shops, family.

You see palm trees, smoke, a house.Yellow, green, purple, orange.I like it.

People go in the cars.People are nervousto go without gas.They need a map. Poem and Illustration By Maureen*

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Sailboat

Sailboat on the water.The ocean is green with waves.The sky is blue, pink,white and yellow.The storm is over. Poem and Illustration by Cecilio*

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When We Walk at Night between Nickelodeon DaysWhen we walk at night towardsOur old countryhouse its saffron lampsSeem to inhale, exhale softlyThe sweet ether.Pliable leaves underfoot addA distance to the day’sRinky dink patterns.Now, at last, we can let go!The world won’t rollaway andRun bumpity, bump, crashInto a hedgerow.Tonight…Stars in the oaks, breeze through the pines,The chiffon presence of shad bush and quince,Breathe in…slowly…Breathe out.Yes, we’ll have to put another nickel in,But that’s tomorrow. By Anonymous

At Night by Mount Kisco Day Habilitation*

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I Wonder I am a girl-child.Possibilities were tuckedInto the pink folds of my blanketIn the hospital nursery,And woven into my lullabies.Under loving eyes, I grew.Now, I watch everything:Grandma in high heeled sandalsMother in yoga pantsAuntie in business suits.But, it is the super-heroes who mesmerize me.Their costumes seem to transform themFrom ordinary mortals into wonderous beingsAble to do incredible things.I wear WonderWoman’s color-coded outfitHoping its lively symbols speak for meAs I play at being who I’m not,In a suit that I’m outgrowing. Somehow, I know that what I now wearDoes not define me.I wonder who I really am? Where I’m going?And what shall I wear?

By Sarah Bracey White

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Wonder Woman by GG Kopliak

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Happy Poet Tree by Mount Kisco Day Habilitation*

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Magnetic Poetry universe of lightningbloom of languagehappy animal remembers

holiday thoughtwinter seasongarden watch

green summer shinepicnic dream cyclebeautiful promises

rain hardchange through flowers

dance morecelebrate alwaysgive soft love this year By Robert Miss

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Our art gallery provides opportunities for all artists, particularly those living with disabilities, to express themselves through visual and performing arts. gallery265 is a unique enhancer of the human spirit.Learn more at www.arcwestchester.org

The Gleeson-Israel Gateway Center • 265 Saw Mill River Road • Hawthorne, NY 10532

SPECIAL THANKS TOEllen Devlin

Robert Miss

Harriet Shenkman

Eric “Zork” Allen

gallery265 committee

Arc of Westchester staff and volunteers

and our artists and poets for their work on this project.