Day: February 12, 2022

Bagarthach Verses Notes

~ JezzieG

Created by: Raphael Aloysius Lafferty

Lafferty introduced the Bagarthach Verse through his sci-fi novel ‘The Reefs of Earth’ in which the alien immigrants would sometimes speak in verse. They called it Bagarthach Verse and in the novel it had powers beyond the words., just as all good poetry should, of course. In the novel, the mean-spirited intent of the verse often came true. Us mere Earthlings would consider the writing of this form as Light Verse that can be humorous or clever but always mean.

A short poem consisting of four lines with a syllable count of 8989 and a rhyme scheme abab

Example

And? by Jez Farmer

I see the disgust in your eyes
Your opinion gives me a headache
I’m sorry why should I disguise
Your dull sparkle on my rainbow cake

Authenticity

~ JezzieG

Authenticity
Form: Free Verse

This
a journey of discovery
crossing my own ‘t’
dotting my own ‘i’
drawing the lines between the dots
as I begin to understand
yet feel more confused too
asking the difficult questions of self
that have even more difficult answers
the proof of self hidden within
the archives of insanity
facing the unavoidable sorrow
of relentless heart-breaking decisions
because I am tired of feeling sad
and need to be me

©JGFarmer2022

Imaginary Animals (Urmuz) by Marcel Janco

~ JezzieG
Imaginary Animals (Urmuz) by Marcel Janco

Imaginary Animals (Urmuz)
1976
Dada
Oil on canvas
Janco-Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel

In the 1960s and 1970s, Janco created a cycle of work known as Imaginary Animals. Creatures depicted from his imagination in a naturalistic style with imagined abstract shapes and fantastic colours. In Urmuz Janco creates an illusion of an animal paradise from abstract invented shapes seemingly flying through the sky, digging in the dirt, and parading through their natural world.

Marcel Janco

Marcel Janco
Dada, Expressionism, Constructivism
Born: 24 May 1895, Bucharest, Romania
Nationality: Romanian-Israeli
Died: 21 April 1984, Ein Hod, Israel

Janco was a visual artist, art theorist, and architect. A co-inventor of Dadaism, he was also a leading exponent of Constructivism in Eastern Europe. In the 1910s he coedited the Romanian art magazine Simbolul, and was a practitioner of Art Nouveau, Expressionism, and Futurism before his painting and stage design led him to Dadaism. He departed company with Dadaism in 1919 and, with the artist Hans Arp, founded Das Neue Leben, a Constructivist circle