Welcome to Art Monastery Hawai’i!
Aloha! We have big news: the Art Monastery has closed up shop in Vermont and relocated to Hawai’i. Welcome to Art Monastery Hawai’i! The Art Monastery is now in residence on a lush permaculture farm nestled in mountains overlooking the sea on the Big Island, Hawai’i. The Hawaiian Islands are the ancestral home of the […]
Precious Mote of Luminous Dust Moon
Precious Mote of Luminous Dust Moon New Moon May 30, 2022 Poem by Qayyum Johnson Painting by Suiko McCall Precious Mote, 2022. Ink on paper, 14×9″. suiko.art
Dandelion Moon
Dandelion Moon Full Moon May 15, 2022 A shadow passes & we call it a star. Look! The avenue is ripening with light! Sometimes the hand that touches you reaching from who-knows-where is the soft hand of an indoors person. Very soon this moon will become a balloon of innocent dandelion seed […]
Moon at the End of the World
Moon at the End of the World New Moon April 30, 2022 When it all comes crashing down(& we know that it will for each of us—it’s only a matter of time)the moon will remain the moonencouraging the survivors onward. It will jumpstart romance in the remainderby being its luminous gentle selfreflecting back whatever light there […]
Perfect Round Moon
Perfect Round Moon Full Moon April 16, 2022 Sitting alone by a small fire outside— white smoke piles up, turns evaporates as tinder greens orange flame. Lonely in a world & a life inseparable from encircling intimacy. Outside with my love— a wound of compassion cherished for how unerring it returns me […]
Love Sun Moon
Love Sun Moon New Moon, April 1, 2022 Dearest Spring, Winter is over, I love you. Jasmine at night, the frogs, I’ve forgotten to suffer for hours. Everywhere I look is growing, egret nests, the chaya trees, my belly fattened on happiness like a spider. Let’s get married again on windhorses today sail yellow […]
Undefiled Future Moon
Undefiled Future Moon New Moon March 2, 2022 O homage to blue sky cloaking deep space Homage to the pacifying breeze, cool or warm Homage to the restful earth embrace Homage to the fiery refuge of love In this language, these concepts (whatsoever liberates our imagination!) may infinite compassion appear to ease the confounding […]
Dear Enrapture Moon
Dear Enrapture Moon New Moon February 1, 2022 To turn the word or be turned by the world To practice perception or reception To endeavor or endure To hold up the weight or hold out for flight To make another whole or remain a united part To choose outside or […]
