Poetry, stories, art, and music from the desk of Jezzie G, a writer without a label
Nocturne Op. 9 No.2
1831-32
Romantic
Frédéric François Chopin
Romantic
Born: 1 March 1810, Żelazowa Wola, Poland
Nationality: Polish
Died: 17 October 1849, Paris, France
Chopin was a composer. His first published composition at age 7 which was followed a year later as he began his performing career. He moved to Paris in 1832 and mixed with high society and was well known as a piano tutor
Veteran of the Psychic Wars
Album: Don’t Fear the Reaper
Date: 1981
Genre: Metal
Blue Öyster Cult
Blue Öyster Cult is a rock band formed in New York in 1967. Best known for ‘(Don’t Fear) The Reaper’, their global record sales are over 25 million. The music video for ‘Burnin’ For You’ received heavy rotation on MTV when the network premiered in 1981, cementing the band’s contribution to the development of the music video in modern music culture.
Rehearsal
1949-50
Bay Area Figurative Movement
Oil on canvas
Oakland Museum of California, USA
In 1949 when he began working in figurate works Park destroyed many of his abstract works. Exhibited in 1950 at the Artist Members Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association “Rehearsal” provoked surprise and consternation among Park’s friends, colleagues, and critics. The sudden change in style both confused and perplexed many of them, and some even saw it as a joke. The painting is a depiction of a jazz band rehearsal and the figures within it resemble members of Park’s own band at the time.
David Park
American Bay Area Figurative Movement, Abstract Expressionism
Born: 17 March 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
American
Died: 20 September 1960, Berkley, California, USA
Park was a painter and considered a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. In May 2007 his painting ‘Standing Male Nude in the Shower’ sold for over a million dollars at Sotheby’s, New York
Form: Haiku
silent dark corners
shielding the delicate growth
from shadows beauty
©JezzieGFarmer2022
Inspired by and written for Simply 6 Minutes – thank you, Christine
I listen to music while I am writing and by complete chance Pink Floyd were doing their thing when I opened Christine’s post. I guess my subject is going to be bricks then, who am I to argue? Here goes…
Someone’s Fool
Form: American Libre Sonnet
Theme: Love
Subject: Bricks
Around my heart the wall of shattered dreams
Each brick concealing another broken shard
As sharps as diamonds lost within my screams
Once beautiful love now painful and hard
Each one evidence I let down my guard
Allowing my heart to be deeply scarred
“Never again” so oft I hear me say
And yet another brick to block the way
Beneath my skin to where my senses play
Desire easily overrides my mind
So rebuilding those walls without delay
Now by the pain of love my soul defined
And I think it’s time to let the head rule
For in love my heart is just someone’s fool
Word Count: 107
Time: 12 minutes 30 seconds
©JezzieGFarmer2022
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