Day: April 20, 2021

Heroic Sonnet Notes

~ JezzieG ~ 1 Comment

Structure: Octave and sestet
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter
Schema: aabbccdd eeffgg

Example

Spark by Jez Farmer

The darkness of depression holds my hand
Embracing me here where I cannot stand
And my eyes of tears cannot see the way
To lead me out into the light of day
There is no place that I can go, not now
For darkness holds me as if in a vow
All my hope is gone, all my hope is spent
And I’m longing for that long descent
I hear their voices like a tidal wave
I’m not convinced, I’m not worthy to save
With nothing to say my last breaths must come
The eternal darkness taking me home
But in my mind there is a spark of light
And in my heart she’s my reason to fight

In the Junk Drawer

~ JezzieG

Form: Hierarchal Sonnet

It’s that time to clear out the drawer of junk
To rummage odds and sods that did a bunk
All those things that in secret try to hide
Neglected stuff aspects of me inside
Hidden away like the tears never cried
And secrets my words could never confide
Does my junk startle at the sudden light
Like my heart as dawn breaks the darkest night
Old receipts like my feelings screwed up tight
Discarded to the trash can to be right
Refusing the hand that tries to show care
I’ve no time for heartache; too much to bare
All these feelings that I just cannot share
I didn’t expect to find that in there

©JGFarmer2021

Fluorescent Complement by Richard Anuszkiewicz

~ JezzieG

Fluorescent Complement
1960
Op Art
Oil on canvas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

An imperfectly geometric work, Fluorescent Complement is formed from warm green dots set against a cool blue background. From the early days of his career Anusszkiewicz was renowned for juxtaposing warm and cool colours in this way in order to toy with visual perception to create a sense of vibration.

Richard Anuszkiewicz
Op Art, Kinetic Art
Born: 23 May 1930, Pennsylvania, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 19 May 2020, New Jersey, USA

Anuszkiewicz was a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is one of the masters of colour in modern American art, developing and evolving his oeuvre over a career of more than sixty years. At the root of his approach he maintained certain key principles, principally the capacity of the eye to mix complementary colours presented separately on a canvas. Anuszkiewicz trained at Yale under the great Bauhaus artist Josef Albers and carried the legacies of his mentor a step further in his experimentations of an unprecedented range of colour contrasts. From the early 1960s the work he was creating appeared to bring pigment alive on the canvas, making it vibrate or float in front of the picture surface

Sapphique Kiss

~ JezzieG

A Garret Poet

Form: Echo Sonnet

I look upon the moon, the very same
as you each night, and then I call your name
My lover neath the silver light; we dance
Or walk beside the gentle woodland stream
No matter what we do we talk romance
And in the moonlight when our fingers touch
Upon the others soft and trusting cheek
There are so many words that say too much
None that express the sweetest kiss Sapphique.
The poems are all a whimsical dream
Compared to the heat of our lover's flame
A poet's words merely hope to enhance
The beauty found within a loving touch
As we join together in love's mystique

©JGFarmer2017

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Game of Love

~ JezzieG

A Garret Poet

Form: Mathlish

It is a game of love we often play
My need to feel without a choice or say
Torment in chains as ice teases on lips
Before the senses burn beneath wax drips
The mind is lost to desire's lust-filled trips.
Within love's game I know no thought of fear
For whips and chains incite my need my dear
Despite the coming of a sensual storm
Upon our bed I feel both safe and warm
As in our love the darkest passions form
For just one kiss you make me beg and plead
While in the candle light I know no shame
I hear a voice expressing deepest need
My voice as it calls out aloud your name

©JGFarmer2009

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