Day: January 16, 2022

To Be a Poet

~ JezzieG

To Be a Poet
Form: Rime Royal Sonnet
Theme: Life
Subject: Reading

To write a poet must first read they said
So sat alone with Shelley, Byron and Keats
I let their words play freely in my head
Picking up their rhythmic romantic beats
I sat dreaming in my blankets and sheets
Not daring to jot down a single word
For anything I say would be absurd
I wished they would tell me how they did it
Read us again old poets seemed to say
Open your mind and let all the words flit
Let ideas mingle amid the word play
Each word helps build the line in its own way
And from each line is born a verse you’ll see
To be a poet let your dreams go free

©JGFarmer2022

Acrostic Poetry

~ JezzieG ~ 1 Comment

Acrostic poetry is a short autonomous verse constructed by placing capitalised words or phrases vertically down the page to form the initial letters of each line of poetry. Each line is used to relate to the word or praise the subject.

Acrostic poetry can be used with various other poetic forms that fit with the chosen word or phrase. In my example, I used a sonnet form.

Example: Passion and Love by Jez Farmer

Powerful love embraces deep inside
A heart; and the mind surrenders to it
Sad doubts fade washed out by the turning tide
Swept away as feelings and words admit
It is love that makes the heart sing desire
Old tunes of wanting that grows by the day
Needing the only one who sparked that fire

Arousing senses into disarray
No rose hued shades deny depth of feelings
Driving onward to reach this love again

Lingering in the bliss of its healing
Organic and sweet as the summer rain
Verses of rhyme cannot hold it within
Echoing what lies deep beneath the skin

The Battle of the River Plate by Brian Easdale

~ JezzieG

The Battle of the River Plate
1956
Film and TV

Brian Easdale

Brian Easdale
Opera, Film and TV, Orchestral, Choral
Born: 10 August 1909, Manchester, UK
Nationality: English
Died: 30 October 1995, London, UK

Easdale was a composer of operatic, orchestral, film, and choral music. He was best known for his film music including Black Narcissus(1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Battle of the River Plate (1956). Easdale was the first British composer to win an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for the music for The Red Shoes

The Absence by Paul Eluard

~ JezzieG

The Absence

I speak to you across cities
I speak to you across plains

My mouth is upon your pillow

Both faces of the walls come meeting
My voice discovering you

I speak to you of eternity

O cities memories of cities
Cities wrapped in our desires
Cities come early cities come lately
Cities strong and cities secret
Plundered of their master’s builders
All their thinkers all their ghosts

Fields pattern of emerald
Bright living surviving
The harvest of the sky over our earth
Feeds my voice I dream and weep
I laugh and dream among the flames
Among the clusters of the sun

And over my body your body spreads
The sheet of it’s bright mirror

Paul Eluard

Paul Eluard
Born: 14 December 1895, Saint-Denis, France
Nationality: French
Died: 18 November 1952, Charenton-le-Pont, France

Eluard was a poet and a founder of the Surrealist movement. During the Second World War he authored several anti-Nazi poems that were clandestinely circulated. Eluard is known globally as the Poet of Freedom and is considered one of the most talented French Surrealist poets