Written by Jezzie G – Paint and canvas, pencils and water, four simple things, four keys to me. – Happiness reflected in bright colours. The sad times come in dark hues. – The canvas doesn’t question me. Just goes with the brush flow. – From canvas, I have no need to hide. No pretence, no bottling […] … Continue reading Destination Surrealistic Imagination — NO MIDDLEMAN ART GALLERY Edge of Humanity Magazine
Good for the Health
A wild revolution of body and mind When towards self you begin to be kind
Médrano II by Alexander Archipenko
Médrano II by Alexander Archipenko Médrano II1913-14CubismPainted tin, wood, glass, and painted oilclothThe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA “Médrano II” displayed the influence of Cubism on Archipenko’s work. Set off by colour and a back panel that framed and supports the figure, the volumes of the body are articulated through intersecting planes, cone, … Continue reading Médrano II by Alexander Archipenko
Token
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt - thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku a badge of honouran expression of meritpyramid relics ©JezzieG2022
Ready for Love by Bad Company
https://youtu.be/nbqjBpNT1sc Ready for LoveAlbum: Bad CompanyDate: 1974Genre: Alternative/IndieArtist: Bad Company Bad Company Formed in England in 1973, Bad Company are a rock supergroup. They enjoyed success throughout the 1970s under the management of Peter Grant, who also managed Led Zeppelin. To date, they have sold over 40 million albums worldwide
Sonnet Reversed Notes
Created by: Rupert BrookeStructure: Couplet and 3 quatrainsMeter: Decasyllabic or pentameterRhyme Scheme: aa bcbddedefgfg Example Sonnet Reversed by Rupert Brooke Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lightsOf heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights. Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures,Settled at Balham by the end of June.Their money … Continue reading Sonnet Reversed Notes
Fateful Moment
Far-reaching events changing the course of living be it gentle persuasion or a hefty shove
Roentgenize
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune exposing fractures reset bones healing in plaster ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Keeping Up Appearances
Simeon Jones has bought a new car it’s parked outside like a shining new star and his wife, Betty has the latest
Inclement
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku the air is bitingout where fog kisses the groundyet birds still sing joy ©JezzieG2022
Interlope
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo in serene moments of contemplationwhen those intrusions invadedid you have to butt in? ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Kismet by BOND
https://youtu.be/EfImvO-iWb0 Kismet2000Classical Pop BONDClassical PopFormed: 2000Nationality: Australian BOND BOND is a string quartet formed by music producer Mike Batt and promoter Mel Bush in 2000. The current line-up consists of Tania Davis (first violinist), Eos Counsell (second violin), Elspeth Hanson (viola), and Gay-Yee Westerhoff (cello). Hanson replaced original band member Havlie Ecker 2ho left in … Continue reading Kismet by BOND
Thus, Love Speaks
What are these words that speak of love so true In the wilderness of our busy world The wild words of love speak to me and you
Kissass by Allen Ginsberg
Kissass is the Part of Peace America will have to Kissass Mother Earth
One Small Day by Ultravox
https://youtu.be/NL3CNiKtaYY One Small DayAlbum: LamentDate: 1984Genre: Alternative/IndieArtist: Ultravox Ultravox Ultravox were a new wave band formed in London in 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980 and 1986 they achieved seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, including ‘Vienna’ in 1981. Between 1974 and 1978 Ultravox was fronted by John Foxx. … Continue reading One Small Day by Ultravox
Miss Dean Reads
Daisy Dean lived her life through fiction Predictions in writer’s diction
Rephahim Shade – 2 by Jules Olitski
Rephahim Shade - 21974AbstractAcrylic on canvasPrivate Collection To the consternation of his supporters, Olitski abandoned his spray guns and bright vibrant colours in the mid-1970s, instead turning to a monochromatic palette and gestured broad brushwork. His work remained abstract; however, its dark and earthy tones and expressive application of paint were inspired by European Old … Continue reading Rephahim Shade – 2 by Jules Olitski
Mathnawi Notes
The Mathnawi is written in rhyming couplets and emerged from an Iranian form around the 4th-10th century, which goes a long way to explain the form’s Persian name. The subject matter is normally heroic, religious, or romantic.There is no limit to number of couplets employed, however the lines are usually between ten and twelve syllables.The … Continue reading Mathnawi Notes
Comfort Eating
Some turn to chocolate and others to cake when the heart is aching I know folk who eat a bucket of ice cream
Mansuetude
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune tender carefulnessfound in lovethe gentlest kiss ©JezzieG2022
Marathon
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu, congrats on your achievement completing the Seattle Marathon Form: Kimo training nights building up the staminafor the big day, the big racea test of endurance ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Dubitable
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku the borderlineto believe or not to trustsuspicious thinking ©JezzieG2022
Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother
https://youtu.be/ySjXFjLTagQ Joker and the ThiefAlbum: WolfmotherDate: 2005Genre: Alternative/IndieArtist: Wolfmother Wolfmother Wolfmother is a band from Sydney, Australia, formed in 2004. Centered around the vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, who is the only constant member of the line-up. The band has had many line-up changes and its current incarnation includes Hamish Rosser on drums, and Brad … Continue reading Joker and the Thief by Wolfmother
Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
https://youtu.be/rWDBOQ0jPMo Pagliacci1892Opera Ruggero LeoncavalloOperaBorn: 23 April 1857, Naples, ItalyNationality: ItalianDied: 9 August 1919, Montecatini Terme, Italy Ruggero Leoncavallo 1857-1919 Leoncavallo was an opera composer and librettist. He produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career but is best known for the opera “Pagliacci” which remains one of the most popular and frequently performed works … Continue reading Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
A Desolation by Allen Ginsberg
Now mind is clear as a cloudless sky. Time then to make a home in wilderness.
Malle Babbe by Franz Hals
Malle Babbe by Franz Hals Malle Babbe1633-35Baroque, Dutch Golden AgeOil on canvasGemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany “Malle Babbe “ is an unusual portrait depicting a woman sitting at a table holding a beer jug in her right hand and perched on her left shoulder sits an owl. She is laughing with her head turned to her left. … Continue reading Malle Babbe by Franz Hals
Inspired by Peanuts
Talented hound Going back to my youth “Good Grief” it’s Charlie Brown And he’s acting the goof Now Snoopy is around
Lofty
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku soaring the high skiesaerial displays amazehe’s just hunting prey ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Magic 9 Notes
So the story goes typing too fast led to abracadabra being misspelled as abacadeba and thus creating the Magic 9,Nine lines of nine syllables with a rhyme scheme of abacadeba Example Bewitched by Divina Collins Shalt not thy deprave the spell of loveenchanted words that melts the heartthat cast thy spells deep within thereofwithin a … Continue reading Magic 9 Notes
Troche
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo with fevers feeling clogged up and chestysip honey and lemon teabut Strepsils will do ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Simple Choice
Hidden in the density of trees The secret plans of escape While humans lurch from scrape to scrape As the world falls to its knees
Season Of Paradox — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Written by Jezzie G In the season of paradox cowards slink, The world in ambiguity is enslaved. The writer’s quill flows with contrary ink, Without the clarity all is depraved. This life is mortality’s enigma. We seek to understand the baffling. It’s lost in a mindless, puzzling stigma, Among the intellectual waffling… Season Of … Continue reading Season Of Paradox — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears
https://youtu.be/BUfcT5OoP-8 Pale ShelterAlbum: The HurtingDate: 1983Genre: Alternative/IndieArtist: Tears for Fears Tears for Fears were formed in Bath, England, in 1981 by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith after the dissolution of their first band, Graduate. Tears for Fears were associated with new-wave electronic bands of the early 1980s and achieved international success. Their debut album “The … Continue reading Pale Shelter by Tears for Fears
I Come from There by Mahmoud Darwish
I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with many windows, I have brothers, friends,
When the Dragonflies Gossip by Alexander Litvinovsky
https://youtu.be/MP6rxVTPvPs When the Dragonflies Gossip2019Avant Garde Jazz Alexander LitvinovskyJazzBorn: 1 May 1962, Minsk, BelorussiaNationality: Belarusian Alexander Litvinovsky Litvinovsky is a composer of contemporary music. He works in a variety of genres including chamber music, stage production music, choral music, and electroacoustic art
San Sebastiano by Leon Battista Alberti
San Sebastiano1460-79ArchitectureMantua, Italy Less ornate than his earlier work, Alberti’s design for the façade for the church San Sebastiano displays many of the characteristics of his style such as decorative columns, a structural symmetry, and rounded arches above the doorways that are repeated at the structure’s pediment. While the façade of the church is its … Continue reading San Sebastiano by Leon Battista Alberti
Fable and Fire
Inspired by and written for Ronovan Writes Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge – thank you Ronovan Form: Haiku those mythical talescircle around the camp flameancient wisdom shared ©JezzieG2022
Trothplight
Inspired by Word of the Day Form: Lune announced in papersthey will wedor will they see sense? ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Expedition
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku travelling beyondto find truth in the unknowndestiny the quest ©JezzieGFarmer2022
My Light in the Dark
When tears were falling from my eyes And words of love just didn’t care You were there to hear my heart’s cries
5150 by Van Halen
https://youtu.be/mN8Ncoenewg 5150Album: 5150Date: 1986Genre: RockArtist: Van Halen Van Halen Van Halen was a rock band formed in California in 1972. They are credited with restoring hard rock to the forefront of the rock scene and were known for their energetic live performances and the virtuosity of their lead guitarist Eddie Van Halen. The band consisted … Continue reading 5150 by Van Halen
Lost in Bach
Lost in the last strains of the intensity of sound and the intimacy of Bach on the moonlit air
Courtesy Costs Nothing
Inspired by and written for Sadje’s Sunday Poser – thank you, Sadje For me, it is the comments and the conversations that can be had in comments that make blogging a more refined social media space. So naturally, I think it is important to respond to someone's comment and of course, it is simply common … Continue reading Courtesy Costs Nothing
Teem
Inspired by Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl Form: Haiku hustle and bustlebags overflowing untilpresent shopping done ©JezzieGFarmer2022
Whinge
Inspired by AWAD – thank you, Anu Form: Kimo mouth overworked with endless complaininga bucket of nothing rightdo this, do that, nagging ©JezzieG2022
Jim by Hilaire Belloc
There was a Boy whose name was Jim; His Friends were very good to him. They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and Jam, And slices of delicious Ham
Violin Concerto No.1 by Dmitri Shostakivich
https://youtu.be/SXDk1CoIRuY Violin Concerto No.11947Symphonic Dmitri ShostakovichClassicalBorn: 25 September 1906, Saint Petersburg, RussiaNationality: RussianDied: 9 August 1975, Moscow, Russia Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 Shostakovich was a composer and pianist who became internationally known following his First Symphony premiered in 1926. He was regarded as a major composer of his lifetime. Shostakovich combined various musical techniques within his … Continue reading Violin Concerto No.1 by Dmitri Shostakivich
Landscape inspired by the View of Frascati by Achille-Etna Michallon
Landscape inspired by the View of Frascati by Achille-Etna Michallon Landscape inspired by the View of Frascati1822RomanticismOil on canvasLouvre Museum, Paris, France “Landscape Inspired by the View of Frascati” was the winner of the Prix du Rome for historical landscape in 1822. Michallon created the piece in the studio using his first impressions of the … Continue reading Landscape inspired by the View of Frascati by Achille-Etna Michallon
Sunday Sonnet: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climbest the skies; How silently, and with how wan a face! What, may it be that even in heavenly place That busy archer his sharp bow tries?
eternal love
Androgyny Confounds
Androgyny Confounds
Form: Loose Sapphic
What is to say of my androgynous state,
the son that never was born in blissful joy
or the maiden daughter unblessed by beauty
just where should I be?
I see balance with nature's most sacred act
that gave me life so I may learn who I am,
from their love, the act of he and she, the rose
with a boyish smile.
Yet if she should hold me close and kiss the smile
my Sapphic heart would be dared to quench her thirst
as molten femininity embraces
the girl that I am.
Labels of identity fail to touch the truth
or justify the woman that breathes in me
mere titles cannot express lores of passion
as I understand
©JezzieG2010
Caturday funnies
American Kestrel in the San Raphael Valley — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. I recently made a drive through southeastern Arizona’s San Raphael Valley. Located about 70 miles southeast of Tucson, the valley is one of the more spectacularly scenic locations in southern Arizona. It is a vast sea of […] … Continue reading American Kestrel in the San Raphael Valley — Sonoran Images
Friday happy dance
Good Grief lol
Asia | Rewind Series — Edge of Humanity Magazine
(above) Japan |Photographer Jesse Freeman This series will focus on showcasing timeless photography that will tell human condition stories and provide enjoyment. Selected from features published since the magazine’s birth in 2014, these hidden visuals will again come to life to touch your hearts. The rewind series will be presented in subjects. To see… Asia … Continue reading Asia | Rewind Series — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Poetry – Senryū – Winter Frosted Ripe – A Poem by Goff James
A poem inspired by Mark S. Naturalist Weekly prompt reference ‘Citrus Fruits’
Poem Attribution – Goff James –Winter Frosted Ripe
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Thank you for your visit
Art Music Photography Poetry Quotations
Many Balls In Air — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Written By The Hermit Poet Busy Not going anywhere Purchased New sneakers I go round and round the track. Faster Faster Faster Wind is blowing on my back. What is it all for? I cannot think straight. Change needed Before too late This piece is part of the Rewind Series Copyright©… Many Balls In … Continue reading Many Balls In Air — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Lovers’ Journey
Lovers’ Journey
Form: Keats’ Sonnet
The Sapphic flame that burns inside my heart
when love begins to melt my solitude
as moonlit eyes invite a longer gaze.
My senses flourish here in passion’s art
as feminine echoes invoke the mood
that soothes the soul with serenity’s song.
As lovers journey through life’s misty haze
my companion as shadows drift apart
so, destinies revealed in love conclude.
For it is in those far-off distant days
we find that love is where we still belong
a miracle that rises o’er the clouds.
with years that pass we see that love is strong
as closeness binds but never overcrowds
©JezzieG2010
Red-tailed Hawks — The Pair — Sonoran Images
You may enlarge any image in this blog by clicking on it. Click again for a detailed view. For much of the autumn and winter Red-tailed Hawks appear as solitary hunters. I see single hawks often in my drives through southern Arizona’s farmlands. However, occasionally, I’ll see two birds perching side by side. Seeing this […] … Continue reading Red-tailed Hawks — The Pair — Sonoran Images
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