| Adam Schachner | They say art's priceless. 'They've' not been to Miami. Stimulus check, please? |
| Adam Schachner | I like art because it is in the eye of the beholder. That's me! |
| Adam Schachner | County cuts art funds? Taxes won't fund art, instead Marlins Stadium. |
| Adam Schachner | Miami arts drought. Bright artists thirst for more funds. Britto filter, please? |
| Adam Schachner | The license plate says: "Florida- State of the Arts". Dade County secedes. |
| adriana d tio | bright lights Miami! ah, firefly funding you're out |
| Alberto Carbi | fall: like the leaves arts will be |
| Alette Simmons-Jimenez | guns, gangs, tv, drugs menu for entertainment for life without art |
| Alex Fumero | if picasso joined my 305 collective he would have no paint. |
| Alex Fumero | fiddler on the roof! nah, literally, my roof-- we ain't got no stage... |
| Alex Fumero | classical ballet. trained hard for seventeen years. i dance at mansion. |
| Alex Fumero | my cousin directs. got a huge film grant last year. he lives in cuba... |
| Alex Fumero | we did peter pan. but then Yoyi broke her neck-- couldn't buy new ropes. |
| Alex Fumero | my cousin directs. got a huge film grant last year. he lives in cuba. |
| Alex Fumero | classical ballet. trained hard for seventeen years. i dance at Mansion. |
| Alex Fumero | Fiddler on the Roof! nah, literally, my roof-- we ain't got no stage... |
| Alex Fumero | miami-dade: "no". city of miami: "um, no". moving to LA. |
| Alex Fumero | some chalk. some sidewalk. pray it doesn't rain at four. south florida art. |
| Alex Fumero | the grant paid in change. quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. didn't change a thing. |
| Alex Fumero | the grant paid in change. quarters, dimes, nickels, pennies. "congratulations!" |
| Alex Fumero | haikus have to win first, second, & hon-mention to pay theater rent. |
| Alexandra M. Reyes | Art in culture dies so does civilization. Good bye Miami. |
| Alexandra M. Reyes | Miami lives now through diversity in art Let it continue |
| Alexandra Reyes | Miami falters when art fails to prosper here. Hearts await change NOW. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Art, music and dance feed the soul and nurture us as community. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Art lives at a cost. Miami dies without art. Pay now, pay later. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Art lives at a cost. Miami dies without art. Pay now, pay later. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Seems all that matters, comes in green with strings attached. Miami needs art. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Decisions to make. Art and culture, we live on. Vote no and we die. |
| Alexandra Reyes | Life develops as images created through art experienced |
| Alvaro Carreras | My walk may be slow But when your dress is like snow I will dance with you! |
| Alvaro Carreras | Even if snow on my roof Matches the white of your dress I will dance with you! |
| Amanda Rivera | Our society Thrives in the restorative Power found in art |
| Amy Tejirian | We need more events Like Sleepless Night to showcase Our local artists |
| Amy Tejirian | Blue, pink, green, orange Miami is colorful With people and art |
| Amy Tejirian | We are all artists In one way or another Let your talent shine |
| Amy Tejirian | Children laugh and play At the Grapeland Waterpark Slides and Brito's art |
| Amy Tejirian | A park without trees Like a city without art Makes it a sad place |
| Amy Tejirian | Second Saturdays Fun, lively, entertaining Pride of Miami |
| Amy Tejirian | Worldwide we are known Art Basel is annual Showcase all art forms |
| Amy Tejirian | Singers and painters Actors, writers and sculptors Sun, sand and palm trees |
| Amy Tejirian | Her twinkling eyes look Mesmerized by the colors Inspired by art |
| Amy Tejirian | Beauty is priceless Please do not stop funding art Art makes us world-class |
| Amy Tejirian | Economy sucks Artists need to work as well Enrich our city |
| Amy Tejirian | Roosevelt's New Deal Created new works of art National treasures |
| Amy Tejirian | Do not cut the arts It makes our city pretty For locals, tourists |
| Ana Miranda | Pleading for respect The multitude is restless No longer silent |
| Ana Miranda | Beauty defenders Confront the ugly mammoth Carlos Stadium |
| Ana Miranda | Woman is silenced How dare she ask "pay” questions! From noble wheelchair |
| Ana Miranda | Dancing not enough Standing before the judges Now part of the act |
| Andres Solar | Miami-Dade gov Circles wagons in the dark You. Inside or out? |
| Andres Solar | Good-ol'-boy network? This isn't Texas! But oh... Carlos Alvarez. |
| Andres Solar | Miami bus stop I wait with my new painting Hours. Then bus splashes. |
| Andres Solar | I dreamed Metrobus Exec. made half a million Bought art and burned it |
| Andres Solar | Great cities have arts Great Carlos Alvarez has... His own little world. |
| Andres Solar | Ripping at the heart Of a town in full blossom Alvarez can sleep? |
| Andres Solar | Arsht Center delights. Miami-Dade Commission wonders "What's world-class?" |
| Andres Solar | Herald announces: Artists Loved South Florida, Then Alvarez Won |
| Andres Solar | World-wide acclaim for Miami City Ballet. Carlos Alvarez. |
| Andres Solar | Hello Transit Chief Hi Alvarez family Goodbye to the arts |
| Andres Solar | I wanted to win But with County budget cuts Can't afford haiku |
| Andres Solar | Will the last artist To leave Miami please bring Roamer Burrito |
| Andres Solar | County serves Carlos And his chosen few, who would Serve Picasso scraps. |
| Andres Solar | Morales, Harvard Alvarez, County Police Education counts |
| Andres Solar | I dreamed Metrorail Conducted by Alvarez Crashed into The Arsht |
| Andres Solar | Magic County King: "Gold for me and my Jester!" "Let them eat Goyas!" |
| Andres Solar | County Hall Circle Taxpayers, No Trespassing Artists Will Be Shot. |
| Andres Solar | Metrorail train dream The Commissioners laughing Crashing into Arsht |
| Andres Solar | Public arts funding From a private Commission? Not private? Wake up! |
| Andres Solar | Mayor Alvarez Bureaucrat for three decades Art world is foreign |
| Andres Solar | King Alvarez eats Faberge eggs for breakfast Napkins? Raphaels. |
| Anthony J. Artis | Whatcha gonna do When arts fade, Miami-Dade? Whatcha gonna do? |
| Armando H. Corbelle | canvas is just cloth without an artists painting arts funding matters |
| Barbara Muze | For Arts and Culture funding sword hangs by a thread once cut we all bleed. |
| Beth Collinsworth | With no funds, blind eyes Drop the curtain on deaf ears. There is no applause. |
| Beth Collinsworth | Many hands clapping Awaken politicians... Funding awakens art. |
| Beth Collinsworth | Empty wallets sigh... Music,art,dance die away. The world mourns its loss. |
| Beth Collinsworth | Art lights up the soul. Sad is the dark life denied the spotlight of joy. |
| Beth Collinsworth | Happy is the stage Where the curtain rises to the sound of money. |
| Beth Collinsworth | A moth flutters on the stage where once a hundred dancers swirled. Sad... |
| Cara Nusinov Leibowitz | winter upon us poet out of commission when funding dries up |
| Carla Hill | Billion bucks to park? Billions could enlighten youth. Lonely seats will tell. |
| Carlos Miller | No money for art More money for pay raises Nobody asked me |
| Carlos Miller | Art is dead, they say, Killed by Mayor Gone Astray. Cronies do get paid |
| Carlos Miller | Take me to the art Take me out to the ball game Take me for a fool |
| Carlos Miller | Carlos Alvarez Don't believe a word he says On sacrifices |
| Carol-Jane Gottfried | SOUTH FLORIDA POND The former quarry The water table and rain Made it a pond |
| Carol-Jane Gottfried | Old-time Orlando The fruit-bearing orange trees Hung with Spanish moss. |
| christine wang | my very own home some hot healthy food to eat that would be quite neat! |
| christine wang | an artist alone no one giving me support i beg kind strangers |
| christine wang | many museums asking me for donations when did they help me? |
| christine wang | many facebook friends... artist grants opportunities? how silent they are! |
| christine wang | you need funding now... many applications filled you not there for me! |
| christine wang | how karma is great what you dish out to others is meal you will eat |
| christine wang | many facebook friends... artist opportunities? how silent they are! |
| christine wang | what are we to do? sip champagne; others starvin' could i be like you? |
| christine wang | what are we to do? sip champagne; others starvin' could i be like you? |
| christine wang | who am i you ask? a child of the most high god: ARTIST, i reply! |
| christine wang | music heals the soul if you fill your heart with it thats the funding bowl!! |
| christine wang | i ask you one thing: whatever wrongs you've been done please dont pass it on! |
| christine wang | man is just a beast til one day a bird passes art gives him a soul! |
| christine wang | one thing i do know: man feast not on bread alone... art to heaven go! |
| christine wang | stock prices do soar! yet, more artists getting poor; where's the equity? |
| christine wang | stock prices do soar! yet, more artists getting poor; where's the equity? |
| christine wang | hours do i toil... higher the prices do soar! i'll always be poor! |
| christine wang | journalism=art the news shapes the world around: demand higher wage! |
| christine wang | art is religion: without artists' intention, faith, healing well spent! |
| christine wang | mother's dream for me: happiness, husband, children- art will save the day! |
| Connie Goodman-Milone | Fine young sax player notes fall through cuts to jazz band-- promise unfulfilled |
| Connie Goodman-Milone | Brilliant saxophone sounds dim with cuts to jazz band, promise unfulfilled |
| Connie Goodman-Milone | The Sun Sentinel cuts book review editor, at a loss for words. |
| Connie Goodman-Milone | The Sun Sentinel cut book review editor-- loss to culture deep. |
| Connie Goodman-Milone | Teens stabbing young teens, amid cuts to youth programs can violence end? |
| COOPER | fools, greed, fraud, debt, lies, now we are all here, bleeding what will we become |
| Corinna Moebius | We fund public art. So why can't we drum and dance in our public space? |
| Corinna Moebius | She paints the sunshine They whirl in the street, we sing ... This is public art. |
| Corinna Moebius | What is public art? Rumba drum and dance outside? Tell me friend, what counts? |
| Corinna Moebius | Spectator, no more We want to create the art. We are the public. |
| Dale Botwin | Does the Commission Wish the populace fishin' ? Mission is Titian. |
| Deborah Hoffman | For arts, a pity - The County funding kitty Is itty bitty. |
| Deborah Hoffman | Wait. Hold the applause. The commission gave no cause. Do we grasp for straws? |
| Deborah Hoffman | "Walk the walk” for arts. Start talking and stop balking. Culture funding's smart. |
| Deborah Hoffman | Tell it to Sherlock – Seven Percent Solution? Ha! Try seventy! |
| Deborah Hoffman | You're "in" or you're "out" On Heidi's Runway - no doubt Commission vote's? OUT |
| Debra Cortese | pending foreclosures. arts funding cuts. credit shot. need help. please, buy art! |
| Doris B. Kraus | Bring the art back please Our kids are lanquishing Eyes downcast and grim |
| Doris B. Kraus | Egrets' plumes awash With golden hues a blazing Out the embers go |
| Doris B. Kraus | Light on the water Notes singing through the palm fronds Sudden dusk and still |
| Doris B. Kraus | What you mean no art? It brings brightness to our day Have you lost your heart? |
| Doris B. Kraus | Students sit all day Blank canvas lying idle Markers all dried up |
| elizabeth genova | Jubilant climax In the time of song & dance Exultant relief |
| elizabeth genova | The patter of feet Exultingly joyful noise Spared amputation |
| Elizabeth Greene Freeman | Thin line to greatness Miami can't cross over As art dies, we die. |
| Elizabeth Greene Freeman | A raise for top staff The politician's first choice. Kill programs instead. |
| Elizabeth Greene Freeman | Art makes great cities. World residents know this truth. So move to New York. |
| ellen berger | Fed up with no cash Which one looted the coffers? Artists recycle |
| ellen berger | Miami's diverse A distinctive universe Art pursues purpose. |
| ellen berger | Artful artistis bring reasons for viewers to view perspectives anew. |
| ellen berger | Trapped in perspective What is real and what is fake? Art shows its true form |
| ellen berger | Painful existence without creativity stifled expression |
| ellen berger | Imagination Surrounded by supporters Blooms blossoms of art |
| ellen berger | Finding the funding possibilities abound Create the change NOW! |
| ellen berger | Contributed by the hands and minds of many To play you must pay |
| ellen berger | Fed up with no cash Which one looted the coffers? Artists recycle |
| ellen berger | Push towards going green While spending little green here Artists go hungry |
| ellen berger | Finding change for art when it's dollars that's needed Expect art for change |
| ellen berger | Night out on the town found the venue was closed down Two feet from a dance |
| ellen berger | Trapped without funding Without art, without music Penitentiary |
| ellen berger | Selfless expression The artist living for art Accepts crumbs for work |
| ellen berger | Our priorites Eating, sex, violence, wealth The future needs art |
| ellen berger | If we don't create SElf-ExpEEssion must EmErgE So then we destroy |
| ellen berger | Accumulation Continued mass consumption fulfills no one's void. |
| Ellen Berger | Your entitlement to having a fulfilled life is endangered now. |
| ellen berger | Artist should not beg Art is not a charity Virtuosity |
| ellen berger | The passion to spawn To sire art awareness Regardless of pay |
| ellen berger | Financial collapse, Recover with invention, Actualize Art! |
| ellen berger | Policy choices decide society's health Hierarchy of needs |
| ellen berger | Broaden the scope Ordinary transcendence for Lifelong Learning |
| ellen berger | Broadening the scope Ordinary transcendence for Lifelong Learning |
| ellen berger | Tremendous hunger for a more meaningful life makes you seek out art |
| ellen berger | Unearth your true needs Cultivate the aesthetic Reject the wasteful. |
| ellen berger | Insight into thought For mental agility Acute artistry. |
| ellen berger | Poised on one's own theme Scorn commonality Blind eye to vision. |
| ellen berger | Concoct your design Will it help or will it harm? The future is yours.. |
| ellen berger | Bring into being You don't have to save the world Just affect a few |
| ellen berger | Tremendous hunger For a more meaningful life Meaningful living |
| ellen berger | Art is not for walls Art is expressed in your soul. Four walls constrict art |
| ellen berger | The dab of a brush Is mightier than the sword A brush with greatness |
| Ellen Berger | Battling resources each side cradles narrow views real winners play fair |
| Ellen Berger | The artist conceives The politician contrives A fight for pieces |
| Ellen Berger | Anti-arts funding? Then you need not need to mourn when it disappears. |
| Ellen Berger | Anti-arts funding? Then you need not need to mourn when it disappears. |
| fereshteh panahi | An interment red bra under a black dress |
| fereshteh panahi | Below the red ribbons is a wedding gift a bitter dark chocolate box |
| fereshteh panahi | Swing machine is sewing loud the wedding dress of the mute |
| fereshteh panahi | Morning the kettle whistles and the sleepy cups lineup |
| fereshteh panahi | Behind the windows of a Rolly sticks a frightened stuffed turtle |
| fereshteh panahi | The grandmother's walker is next to the granddaughter's scooter after a breathtaking race |
| Frank Martin Verdejo-Chica | Graduation says, Money is very vital. Do not cut my dream. |
| Fred Schwendel | invest in the arts a return of emotion untold dividends |
| Fred Witkoff | my grandfather spoke seven different languages... all of them at once. |
| Fred Witkoff | Haven't I told you a million zillion times never to exaggerate! |
| Fred Witkoff | "Moderation in all things?" Even this can be carried to excess. |
| Fred Witkoff | Sad and glad. I can do what Beethoven could not ... hear ALL his music. |
| Fred Witkoff | Eve was the result of the first attempt by God to split the Adam. |
| Fred Witkoff | Don't we all pity the poor snake who doesn't have a pit to hiss in? |
| fred Witkoff | An egotist is one who believes his ego is greater than mine. |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Money is tighter Their Vision of Division Art is always first |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Money is tighter So they fund a stadium? Prioritize, dorks! |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | You never believed! We are a hub for culture. Believe in our arts! |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Money always talks. The Commission always walks. Stand up for the arts! |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | You do not have heart! Waste money and take our art? Tearing us apart. |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Can I interrupt? It is said that power corrupts. Don't make art defunct. |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | I don't believe now. Losing hope in Miami. Another reason… |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Life without art now. The City of No Magic. This is Miami. |
| Gabriel F Urrutia | Paradise? Of course. Beautiful people? Of course. Art? Ask the Commish. |
| Gene de Souza | Cultura viva Muitos trabalham nisso Sem grana, morre |
| Gene de Souza | Musica linda Alegria nos une Tem que apoiar |
| Gene de Souza | Maravilhoso Eu nunca vou esquecer Cultura sempre |
| Gianluca Dominico Hernandez | Bears bears awesome bears I used to be scared of bears But now bears are cool! |
| Gina Melin | Starving artist world- unwanted long-term results Miami-Dade pain. |
| Gina Melin | Starving artist world- unwanted long-term results Miami-Dade pain. |
| Gina Melin | Arts are in peril Miami Politicians are impolitic. |
| Gina Melin | Nothing up my sleeve Nothing in the fund for art Tragic Dade magic |
| gina Melin | Herald headline news: ‘Pols short change Miami art!' Usual business! |
| gina Melin | Creativity- The cost of not funding it? Dade withdrawal pains. |
| gina Melin | Art anemia? Hypothermia in Dade? Restore the funding! |
| Gina Melin | And for our next trick We'll slash funding for the arts. The commissioners. |
| Gina Melin | Supporting the arts generates great R.O.I. It's a no-brainer! |
| Gina Melin | Repeat after me – I will support Dade's artists as they support me! |
| Gina Melin | Ponder me this, please: Miami-Dade arts funding - should be sacrosanct. |
| Gina Melin | Ponder me this, please: Miami-Dade arts funding - should be sacrosanct. |
| Gina Melin | Repeat after me – I will support Dade's artists as they support me! |
| Gina Melin | Think outside the blocks- Our arts need a stadium full of funding too! |
| Gina Melin | Arts funding next year - The path of least resistance or tough decisions? |
| Gina Melin | The weather changed. The situation didn't. Give arts the funding! |
| Gina Melin | Fully funded arts – Victory for the public! Satisfactory! |
| Gina Melin | The arts incubate, pollinate, and resonate. Hesitate to cut! |
| Gina Melin | The path of arts whines through Miami-Dade neglect. Can you ease the pain? |
| Gina Melin | Miami-Dade arts give us pleasure and profit! Cut artfully! |
| Gina Melin | Endangered species – The arts in Miami-Dade. Tell them how to vote! |
| Gina Melin | What is minimum for arts in Miami-Dade? Irreducible. |
| Gina Melin | Do not just stand there and see our arts throttled back - show your displeasure! |
| Gina Melin | Vote for those who care for arts in Miami-Dade! Get their attention! |
| Gina Melin | Miami-Dade arts - need your heroic action. Fight for more budget! |
| Gina Melin | Worried about arts? Miami-Dade Commission - vote no budget cut! |
| Gina Melin | At a minimum, the arts in Miami-Dade need the right budget. |
| Gina Melin | Find another way for arts in Miami-Dade to see 2010. |
| Gina Melin | Help Miami-Dade - Save our arts community from politicians. |
| Gina Melin | Help Miami-Dade - Save our arts community from do-badders! |
| Gina Melin | What are the arts worth? In Miami-Dade today it's a real question! |
| Ginger Vela | Miami, place where worlds collide; where sports and arts have history of long division. Hang on tight, enjoy the ride. |
| Ginger Vela | The mayor dreams big, commissioners' votes are in; sit down, citizen. |
| Ginger Vela | No lights in the park, no slam dunks made in the dark; streets lure with guns, gangs. |
| Ginger Vela | Glittering city, destruction by construction, filled by emptiness. |
| Ginger Vela | Politics aside, there's a crying need for arts; food for hungry souls. |
| Gwendy Moya | The Magic City Without imagination remains in the past. |
| Gwendy Moya | Art and culture breathe imagination into The Magic City |
| Gwendy Moya | The Magic City An Empty Canvas Longing To Find Rich Artists |
| Harry Small | Breathing life into Forms of public well-being Creating monies. |
| Irvin D. Milowe, MD | Wow, Knights like haiku, who would have thought it could be, Camelot right here!!! |
| isabelle lambert | Call Them, Write Them, Shame Protest However You Can, For They Cannot Be Allowed To Do This, |
| isabelle landman | Old black and white film Painting of light and shadow Richer than color, No money, no more! |
| Ivonne Martin | Flying safe and high, art is the soul's butterfly: spare her wings so bright! |
| J J Colagrande | Don't stop believing On your mark, get set, and go Miami must grow |
| J J Colagrande | Museum of Science Commisoners grow weary Miami breeds art |
| J J Colagrande | Life imitates art There is a way and a will Spend and save a mil |
| Jacqueline Hardy | The gentle rain falls, Splish, splash, it feeds the garden, Thankful flowers bloom. |
| Jaden Jarvis | I love animals. They are so cute and fuzzy. Don't run away please! |
| Jennifer K. Martin | Blue bird flies away Ladybug rests on my cheek My tears are falling |
| Jim Drain | parchment folded stranded, we send a bottle waiting for the night |
| Jim Drain | branches snap in two ax sharpened to a cruel edge which pine will remain? |
| Jim Drain | the runners somber these submissions, short of breadth look to the next race |
| Jim Drain | palms sway, florida hands leap up for attention today Knight chooses |
| Jim Drain | argh, south florida a knight 'ere buried booty ideas be y'map |
| Jim Drain | thoughts brains crunch limes crushed in a mojito swooning ambitions |
| Jim Drain | caribbean breeze a paper jumps suddenly a pencil jots lines |
| Jim Drain | florida sunshine our eyes close to the brilliance better luck next year |
| Jim Drain | an artist's paint brush mightier than a knight's sword (unless rejected) |
| Jim Drain | barest survival trying flint we lose all hope we just need a match |
| Jim Drain | dangling carrot philanthropists spare a scent capitalism |
| Jim Drain | creativity an artist's greatest asset lights off, hungry mice |
| Jim Drain | the gates of heaven you'll be treated with respect rejection is hell |
| Jim Drain | thanks for submitting application was received the next phase awaits |
| John Snyder | Why waste time with Art We're destined to Islam rule Democrats did it |
| Jonathan Rose | Arts funding restored from seventy to eighty per cent--gigantic. |
| Jonathan Rose | Loss of funding hurts Dade's arts community and quality of life. |
| Jorge Daumy, Jr. | Forest Giants stand While wind blows strong and cool Only the leaves fall |
| Jovan Suengas | An untouched canvas in the Magic City Is a Lonely Soul |
| Joyce Seigel | Breathe, Art for Art's sake- Commissioners, SAVE Les Arts, Embody Beauty |
| judy chin | Minus the artists We are barren, dull, soulless Quantify that loss. |
| judy chin | Within Miami Creative seeds need nurture Yet neglect is sown |
| judy chin | Acknowledge art's strength To reveal, inspire hope, heal Salve to urban angst |
| June Weinstein | Seaa a great concert Cook a dish with reknown chefs Knight Concert Hall wins. |
| June Weinstein | Arsht Center theaters Prelude a place to dine Great performances |
| June Weinstein | A slice of heaven here at the Knight Concert Hall. Come pick out your cloud! |
| June Weinstein | Arsht Center theaters Prelude-a place to dine there Add great performances too. |
| June Weinstein | Miami our city Leave politics at the door And do what is right fo us. |
| Karen Szucs | Our new vision lost A dream Dancers Pirroute bureaucrats must beg |
| Kate Rawlinson | Caring feels futile. When politicians are tight. But we carry-on. |
| Katherine Viola | The artist at work Sacrosanct promises in Every brush-stroke. |
| Kathleen Carignan | Economic mess Emotions high, spirits low At end, we survive |
| Kenny Fountain | Take away the arts But I live for poetry Instead of the streets |
| Kenny Fountain | Guns, knives, gangs, and fights Drama, arts, me reciting Which would you prefer |
| Kenny Fountain | No kickbacks or bribes So you destroy our kids lives What oath did you take? |
| Kenny Fountain | Commission kickbacks Arts is also visual Kick some to the arts |
| Kenny Fountain | Kids are important Saying no to arts speaks loud My vote is loud too! |
| Kristina Emmons | Razorblade to throat Dollars fall fast like blood drops The county's art chokes |
| Kristina Emmons | Commission the art Tell it to come without pay You make it a slave |
| Kristina Emmons | Starving artists here Our wages given away To Mr. Baseball |
| Kristina Emmons | Make us Apollo Not a statue of marble A god--an athlete. |
| Kristine Burns | Michael Spring was tense The budget was being slashed But we all held on. |
| Kristine Burns | Commissioners cutting Miami culture nearly died But yet we survived |
| L. Powers | The Silenced Artist Politics Stop my Passion my Dreams are Dying |
| L Powers | Miami Art Scene How I Long For Thee To Be Non-Political |
| L Powers | Miami Art Scream Miami Art Dream Machine Miami Art Lean |
| Larissa Bernardes | Budget Committee Arts are our national heart Don't tear it apart. |
| Larissa Bernardes | Though art is not flesh In and out we weave starshine Plucking morning breeze. |
| Larissa Bernardes | Though art is not flesh, What's a mind without a heart? Answer: not Human. |
| Larissa Bernardes | Just perhaps Van Gogh Tore his ear for more than love Human flesh needs food. |
| Leah Weston | There's a war on art. Economic amputee needs your help to be. |
| Leah Weston | County Commission: Art is a social contract that can't be outsourced. |
| Leslie Brockway | Their heart's desire waits When Dade's clay stained hands withdraw Children bring color |
| Liana Minassian | Art for all it's worth Stimulates and Inspires Even on a wall |
| Lorraine G. Allen | This is not the time While sitting on your behind You let asts decline |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Doing the right thing Is what you were chose to do Give us fine arts too |
| Lorraine G. Allen | We know recession You keeping the arts alive May help depression |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Doing the right thing Is what you were chose to do Give us fine arts too |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Redemption is sure When you do all you can do To keep arts alice |
| Lorraine G. Allen | We voted for you Your promises were not true Budget for arts too |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Arts will not die so Put the money where your mouth Is not just talking |
| Lorraine G. Allen | To be or not be Is this the question you want Support arts today |
| Lorraine G. Allen | You must raise the bar Make Miami-Dade the star For the arts to shine |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Let's get it popping Commissioners get with it Cause arts ain't stopping |
| Lorraine G. Allen | We shout out loudly For Miami-Dade County To support the artsy |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Hope, laugh, cry and dream That's what arts in all forms mean Let's keep it mainstream |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Don't let it be known That you did not do your part To budget for arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Don't let it be known That you did not do your part For Dade County arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Just do the right thing Have a heart, support the arts With budget funding |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Citizens unite We are all willing to fight For budgeted arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | We humbly cry out Don't forget to fund the arts It would not be smart |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Budget for the arts Arts are like the air we breathe This county needs life |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Death is all around Arts are like the air we breathe This county needs life |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Do it right away Budget for the arts today Make funding happen |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Make the budget work Give an opportunity For a leg to break |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Your commission seat Gives you opportunity To support the arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Stop death in it's tracks Ensure the county's budget Keeps the arts alive |
| Lorraine G. Allen | No money for arts You must be out of your mind We'll see next vote time |
| Lorraine G. Allen | A land without arts Is like a dry, wasted place No votes your next race |
| Lorraine G. Allen | You can do much more So what are you waiting for Budget for the arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | One, two, three, four, five Who do you think you can jive? Better get arts money |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Communities need To love, laugh, cry, hope and dream Give the arts a try |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Let's come together And reason among ourselves And make arts happen |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Budget up your act It's your final curtain call If no arts in it |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Forsake not the arts Do all you can do to strive To keep arts alive |
| Lorraine G. Allen | No budget for arts? You'll get lost by the wayside Lose by a landslide |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Don't you pass the buck No budget for the arts sucks And your goose is plucked |
| Lorraine G. Allen | Hypocrites are you When you sit back and you do Nothing to fund arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | You should have a heart Do your best to do your part Budget for the arts |
| Lorraine G. Allen | One, two, three, four, five Who do you think you can jive Get the arts money |
| Marcos Valella | floating on the bay a boat sinking December Miapolis |
| Marcos Valella | floating on the bay a boat sinking December Miapolis |
| Margaret Lake | Anger is not said Baseball and stadium fed Back door deal is wed |
| Margaret Lake | Carlos Alvarez Art is an expendable Stop calling my phone |
| Margaret Lake | Silly trick rabbit! Art is for "kids" and "whiteys" Someone else will pay ... |
| Margaret Lake | more American: little white ball red stitches, arts die for its home |
| Margaret Lake | Carefully crafting poems on County arts funding bright star fills my dark |
| Margaret Lake | Do we ask police to sew their own uniforms? Poems can save lives too |
| Margaret Lake | Van Gogh on South Beach would die the same poor sad man as he did back then |
| Margaret Lake | wishing on pennies from counties that have dollars can we continue |
| Margaret Lake | pink sidewalks are paid no artist was fed today endangered species |
| Margaret Lake | very sunny place yet the shade is everywhere shine on in the dark |
| Margaret Lake | my heart is bending and twisting as I watch the funds cease to exist |
| Mark Kraus | Nature's perfect art Votes for development take Our right to beauty |
| Mark Kraus | Humans need basics County tries to provide them Art is a basic |
| Mark Kraus | Art flames our passion Food and shelter preserve hope We need all of them |
| Mark Kraus | They say art is in The eye of the beholder Let us all behold |
| Mark Kraus | Hey Miamians! All of the world's great regions Support public art |
| Mark Kraus | New short sightedness Budget immediacies Arts suffer again |
| Mark Kraus | County commission Punctuated with power Votes no to beauty |
| Mark Kraus | Our commissioners Absorbed in self-interest Don't see the flowers |
| Mark Kraus | The environment Silent discussion unheard In county chambers |
| Mark Needle | Dancing with words, a Spectaculo publico: Arts spring eternal. |
| Marlene Adams | Comforting chorale Creates a warm quilt of song Sweat, Quiet Village. |
| Marlene Adams | Art, in times like these? We can't afford it. Love it, Hypothetically. |
| Marlene Adams | Maybe mad – or wise? Clown with scalpel pops balloons: King Mango Strutter. |
| Marlene E Adams | Great art that distorts, Manipulates and subverts: MAM? Nope. The budget. |
| Marlene E. Adams | Enthralled child whispers: "Five days of classical songs Are stuck in my head." |
| Marlene E. Adams | Hunker with me! Hear "All the sounds that nature'd make If only she dared." |
| Marlene E. Adams | Glass spheres float in ponds Crystal lilies sprout in rows Fairchild's winter blooms. |
| Marlene E. Adams | (Twenty empty cots) Kuitca's art is Everything -- Got a map? Yes: MAM. |
| Marlene E. Adams | No staff, no students No campus, texts, or teachers -- Wynwood just has WORDS. |
| Marlene E. Adams | Music thrills my ears -- Oasis, oxymoron: Cleveland? Symphony? |
| Marlene E. Adams | Arts are chocolate: When planning the new budget, Save room for dessert. |
| Marlene E. Adams | Infinity net: Fairchild's full of polka dots! Yayoi Kusama. |
| Marlene E. Adams | Keeping arts alive More than we could have hoped: County Commish rules! |
| Marlene E. Adams | sins of omission for continued arts support: sins of Commission |
| Medeia Sharif | Miami landscape Dry, in need, turns towards the sun In green love, takes shape |
| Medeia Sharif | Public arts funding Springs into bloom, feeds people Beautiful art forms |
| Medeia Sharif | Towering sculptures Murals ache with emotions Miami beauty |
| Medeia Sharif | Miami cradles The arts and their makers with Strong, motherly arms |
| Medeia Sharif | Icy politics Miami arts, barren field Beauty is smothered |
| Medeia Sharif | When my child asks About arts in Miami I cry commission! |
| Nicholas Arehart | Is there a way to play football in an Art Basel? No? Cut the money then. |
| Nicholas Arehart | When times are tough we eat the living and vibrant. Wonder if they'll live. |
| Pat Singleton | Cultural wastelands are created by losing patrons of the arts. |
| Pat Singleton | A city without an arts program would be like a man with no heart. |
| Pat Singleton | Water quenching thirst.... good food nourishing bodies.... the arts feeding souls. |
| Pat Singleton | At the core and crux of this great city of ours is an arts program. |
| Pat Singleton | Sparing arts funding is just as important as venues for sports fans! |
| Pat Singleton | Education is a melding of the 3 Rs with liberal arts. |
| Pat Singleton | Generosity to a public arts program is money well-spent! |
| Rebekah Malkin | The green grass growing, The yellow sunshine glowing, The blue birds chirping. |
| Robyn Vegas | Fading like old jeans Once vibrant colors now gray The arts are dying |
| Robyn Vegas | Imagine silence No music, dancing, singing Deafening quiet |
| Rodrigo B. Gonzalez | Miles for miles I drive Trumpet calls with wailing moans Many miles to go |
| Roseana Rodriguez | Here's seven million To fund your games a decade As art waits for scraps. |
| Roseana Rodriguez | Art plays in the streets, Unprotected, unfunded A commercial wish? |
| Roseana Rodriguez | Miami searches For perpetual riches While her culture cries. |
| Roseana Rodriguez | Monetary woes, Control a market people, Who dismiss art's worth |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | A culture-wasteland Was Miami…but not now. Don't let it regress!!!!!!!!!!. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Sights and sounds abound In this city that once was Devoid of culture. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | I think it's a shame That public schools may refrain From teaching the arts. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | If "pols” would revoke Some of their perks, then the arts Would not be so broke. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Spirited school bands, Art displays, thespians' shows… School kids will miss those. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Painting's an eye-feast. Music soothes the "savage beast.” How sad if these ceased. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | School-Arts are a mess. Public Arts are funded less. We all feel distress. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Anything at all Associated with ball Gets "dough"...arts-funds fall. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Soon public places Will have more empty spaces As arts-funds dwindle. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Hey, diddle diddle, The hepcat couldn't fiddle, ‘Cause school-music stopped. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Each of you is like A KNIGHT in shining armor… To WYNWOOD please me. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Miami's Book Fair Offers culture beyond compare To everyone there. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Miami's Book Fair Is a reader's potpourri. Authors come to life. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Knight and Wynwood are Both cultural shining stars, Serving verbal arts. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | All through SLEEPLESS NIGHT, Cultural-arts-stars shone bright. It was sheer delight. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | For arts, we could pay If, to perks, pols would say "nay.” Arts-teachers could stay. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Arts-programs are broke. If "pol's" perks, folks would revoke, Arts'-fires we could stoke. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Taking arts from schools Would keep Miami's youngsters Culturally dumb. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | My cat starts to cry. My tearful dog waves "bye-bye” To arts...so do I !!!!! |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | I feed feral cats. They have been neutered and spayed. They keep rats away. |
| Ruth Altman Broadbent | Music, painting, dance... They culturally enhance. Don't cut their finance!! |
| Silvia Ordonez | Artistic pursuit colorful salve for our souls connecting each other |
| Silvia ordonez | Funding dilemma Art accessibility a win for people |
| Silvia ordonez | In times like these uncertainty sickens thee The arts heal that disease |
| Silvia ordonez | In times like these uncertainty sickens thee The arts heal that disease |
| Silvia Ordonez | Cut wasteful spending But please leave our art pending Inspiration gone |
| Siobhan Morrissey | Ozymandias Sneered. Only his words remain, Written by the bard. |
| Siobhan Morrissey | Give forgive give for Art Miami give for art. Ode to Kentridge. Give. |
| Stephanie Visi | Art in Miami Gratitude for art funding Thanks, Miami-Dade |
| Talia scott | Without art, we are without life, without culture the journey is lost |
| Tere Starr | Miami's magic sparkles in the artist's eye, lives in creation. |
| Tere Starr | Miami's lost soul Creativity silenced Longing for beauty |
| Thor Barraclough | Shiny stadiums, Gleaming new art palaces bare without teachers. |
| Thor Barraclough | Shiny stadiums, gleaming new art palaces empty pots need seeds. |
| Todd Edwards | Where is the money The City just has no clue Now what do we do |
| Todd Edwards | deceased is the day when we're not going to pay for others mistakes |
| Tom Virgin | dade arts are thriving gov can't see it from his house success stories starving |
| Tom Virgin | Florida culture. Dade, growing epicenter. Tallahassee blind. |
| Tom Virgin | Miami growing. Tide lifts all Sunshine State boats, Tally is landlocked. |
| Tracie L. Dickerson | silently sleeping angels, demons wait to prey innocence corrupted, mine |
| Tracie L. Dickerson | rays of sunlight fall a bronze goddess created an ocean's new dawn |
| Tracie L. Dickerson | summer days are gone replaced by winter's chill only hope remaining |
| Tracie L. Dickerson | rays of sunlight fall a bronze goddess created an ocean's new dawn |
| Tracy Slavens | I love Miami. Too bad no one speaks English Or knows how to drive. |
| Tracy Slavens | Does Miami have A notable art presence? Britto Rules, of Course! |
| Tracy Slavens | Christo's pink islands Britto's bold colorful prints Art basel's spotlight |
| Vanessa Garcia | Your sweat when we love singing the sweet smell of you A beat to my heart |
| vanessa garcia | Life and death and love True fragility and song All brought forth with bucks |
| vanessa garcia | If you forget art you disremember matter and what matters goes |
| vanessa garcia | Art without money like a song without bank notes impossible beat |
| vanessa garcia | Miami should learn A tropical tutelage: Feed the arts; feed all |
| Vivian E. Gonzalez | Voices are soaring Children's culture hung to dry deafness falls on ears |
| Wick Beavers | fly... spear of moving it snap bark arghh froze in stove pipe hot stopped in black |
| William Sancho | empty rooms we see the weight so clearly we feel broken hearts downtown |
| William Sancho | our arts bleeding so our leadership reaction our children inherit no |
| William Sypher | A world with no art Goodbye imagination Say goodbye my soul |
| William Sypher | Consider no art Maybe no music as well Where to draw the line |