Day: September 2, 2022

Writephoto – Melancholic Beauty

~ JezzieG ~ 6 Comments

Inspired by and written for #Writephoto – thank you KL

I don’t suppose it is any big surprise a swan and I’m off to the ballet in my head. The dance of the Dying Swan may be a very sad part of the Swan Lake story but as a ballet performance, it is stunningly beautiful. Here we go…

Swan – Image by KL Caley

Melancholic Beauty
Form: Free Style Sonnet 1

In silent darkness curtains swiftly raise
The melancholic tones orchestra plays
As on to the stage her figure now sways
Like a lotus flower with outward gaze
As she dances into her end of days
A performance that can only amaze
She stares out far beyond the theatre seats
Beyond plastic wrappers and chewing sweets
For her time to die is not over yet
And she spirals into a pirouette
To Tchaikovsky’s sadness that fills the air
The pain of her story too much to bare
In that moment I barely catch my breath
Her portrayal of beauty within death

©JezzieGFarmer2022

Caruso by Andrea Bocelli

~ JezzieG

Caruso
1994
Classical

Andrea Bocelli
Opera
Born: 22 September 1958, Lajatico, Italy
Nationality: Italian

Andrea Bocelli

Bocelli is an operatic tenor and multi-instrumentalist. Diagnosed with congenital glaucoma at 5 months old he became blind at 12 years old after a soccer accident. Bocelli rose to fame in 1994 winning the preliminary round of the 44th Sanremo Music festival with the highest marks recorded in the newcomers’ section.

More Than That

~ JezzieG

More Than That
Form: Epistle
Theme: The Self-Healing Journey

Just like everyone else
l have negative points like
the things I can’t or won’t do
yet feel I have to just
because someone else wants that
because they say I have to make them happy
because if I don’t it breaks their dreams
because if I love them I will
so what if by doing these things
the negative impact on me is not good
or worse it is degrading my own self opinion
it is soul-destroying
and devalues my self-worth
is that worth their happiness
no it bloody isn’t
I believe I am worth more than that
because I am not a happiness toy
performing for someone else’s satisfaction
if I need to do that because I love them
then damn they see me as less than nothing
and I am worth more than that
and if they had any love for me at all
they wouldn’t ask for it
so to prove my love
is accepting I am unloved
and there is where it all goes wrong
and again I say
I am worth more than that

©JezzieGFarmer2022

Land of Confusion by Genesis

~ JezzieG

Land of Confusion
Album: Invisible Touch
Date: 1986
Genre: Pop rock
Artist: Genesis

Genesis

Formed at Charterhouse School in Surrey, UK, in 1967 Genesis’ most successful line-up includes Tony Banks (keyboards), Mike Rutherford (bassist/guitarist), and Phil Collins (drummer/singer). In the 1970s when the line-up included Peter Gabriel (singer) Genesis was among the pioneering groups of progressive rock.

New Dress, Old Money

~ JezzieG ~ 2 Comments

New Dress, Old Money
Form: Free Verse

A ha’penny here and a farthing there
soon a penny or thereabouts
a three-penny bit found on the floor
she set her target at sixpence
half a shilling would be quite something, you see
so in her jar the coins went
whenever she had any spare
sixpence passed to a shilling
then two bob soon it would be half a crown
enough to buy fabric and lace
to make a new dress for the summertime

©JezzieGFarmer2022

Sonnet September: Love, that doth reign and live within my thought by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

~ JezzieG
Henry Howard, Earl of Surry 1517-1547

Love, that doth reign and live within my thought,
And built his seat within my captive breast,
Clad in the arms wherein with me he fought,
Oft in my face he doth his banner rest.
But she that taught me love and suffer pain,
My doubtful hope and eke my hot desire
With shamefast look to shadow and refrain,
Her smiling grace converteth straight to ire.
And coward Love then to the heart apace
Taketh his flight, where he doth lurk and plain,
His purpose lost, and dare not show his face.
For my lord’s guilt thus faultless bide I pain,
Yet from my lord shall not my foot remove:
Sweet is the death that taketh end by love

Friday’s Poetic Form Challenge – Acrostic

~ JezzieG ~ 6 Comments

Hi Everyone

It seems the form challenge I used to run is missed. Thank you to all those who have said I should run it again, here on this site. Each Friday I will post a different form along with an image if you need the inspiration

There are no rules other than those contained in the form parameters and a polite request for writers to leave a pingback to their work so I and others can read it.

Permalink: https://jezfarmerblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/02/fridays-poetic-form-challenge-acrostic/

Have fun and write on
Raven

Image by Ella Pellegrini

For those of us with visual challenges the image is of a woman is stood, wearing a white dress and holding white balloons

This week’s form is the Acrostic.

Acrostic poetry is a short autonomous verse constructed by placing a capitalized word or phrase, often the poem title, vertically down the page to form the initial letters of each line of poetry. Each line is used to relate to the word or the subject.

If the poet desires the Acrostic can be used with various other poetic forms that fit with the chosen word or phrase. In my example, I used a loose version of an English sonnet.

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 feeling
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