Poetry, stories, art, and music from the desk of Jezzie G, a writer without a label
My Lady, the Owl
Form: Awdl Gywydd
Theme: Welsh Mythology
On feather wings of an owl
As she prowls on the night skies
No mortal woman is she
My lady of flowers flies
He chased her beauty to flight
Blodeuwedd light on the wing
Into the night her flower face
The owl in flight welcomes spring
©JGFarmer2022
Saint Francis Contemplating a Skull
1633-35
Religious Art
Oil on canvas
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Saint Francis Contemplating a Skull demonstrates Zubarán’s ability to capture spirituality in his subjects. Dressed in the brown habit of the Franciscan Order the saint looks down at the human skull in his hands. Zubarán’s contrast of light and dark surround the figure in a wash of light drawing the viewer’s eye up from the skull to St Francis’ meditative face in a figurative memento mori.
Francisco de Zurbarán
Baroque
Born: 17 November 1598, Fuente de Cantos, Spain
Nationality: Spanish
Died: 27 August 1664, Madrid, Spain
Zubarán was a painter, best known for his religious paintings of monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. He earned the nickname the ‘Spanish Caravaggio’ with his forceful use of chiaroscuro. Zubarán is the father of the painter Juan de Zurbarán
The Human League
An English synth-pop band, The Human League formed in Sheffield in 1977. The group signed to Virgin Records in 1979 and gained widespread commercial success with their 1981 album ‘Dare’. The album included the UK/US number one hit ‘Don’t You Want Me’. Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s.
Hard Times
Album: Dare
Date: 1981
Genre: Rock
Form: Haiku
pause for a moment
listen as the wild wind sings
there lies the answers
©JGFarmer2022
Jezzie G 