Day: December 3, 2022
Destination Surrealistic Imagination — NO MIDDLEMAN ART GALLERY Edge of Humanity Magazine
Written by Jezzie G – Paint and canvas, pencils and water, four simple things, four keys to me. – Happiness reflected in bright colours. The sad times come in dark hues. – The canvas doesn’t question me. Just goes with the brush flow. – From canvas, I have no need to hide. No pretence, no bottling […]
Destination Surrealistic Imagination — NO MIDDLEMAN ART GALLERY Edge of Humanity Magazine
Good for the Health
Good for the Health
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 83
A wild revolution of body and mind
When towards self you begin to be kind
No longer crying of worthless and small
But reaching for the stars in skies above
A sense of self-esteem and standing tall
Energies created by the universe
Like stardust bound together in the self
In this life there is no need to rehearse
When loving self is so good for the health
Released from the binds of another’s curse
Then living your own truth is best of all
As well-being becomes the greatest wealth
The time has come to discover and find
All the feelings that words express as love
©JezzieG2022
Médrano II by Alexander Archipenko
Médrano II
1913-14
Cubism
Painted tin, wood, glass, and painted oilcloth
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
“Médrano II” displayed the influence of Cubism on Archipenko’s work. Set off by colour and a back panel that framed and supports the figure, the volumes of the body are articulated through intersecting planes, cone, and wedge elements, and abstract forms. Archipenko challenged the monochromatic traditions of sculpture by using colours and the use of mundane materials such as wood and glass. His creative methods involved no carving or modelling as was tradition, instead, he nailed, pasted, and tied things together and made no attempt to hide junctures, seams or nails.
Alexander Archipenko
Cubism
Born: 30 May 1887, Kyiv, Ukraine
Nationality: Ukrainian-American
Died: 25 February 1964, New York, USA
Archipenko was an avant-garde artist, sculptor, and graphic artist. He was among the first to apply Cubism to architecture, and sculpture, and analysing the human figure into geometrical forms
Token
Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – thank you, Sheryl
Form: Haiku
a badge of honour
an expression of merit
pyramid relics
©JezzieG2022
Ready for Love by Bad Company
Ready for Love
Album: Bad Company
Date: 1974
Genre: Alternative/Indie
Artist: Bad Company
Formed in England in 1973, Bad Company are a rock supergroup. They enjoyed success throughout the 1970s under the management of Peter Grant, who also managed Led Zeppelin. To date, they have sold over 40 million albums worldwide
Sonnet Reversed Notes
Created by: Rupert Brooke
Structure: Couplet and 3 quatrains
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter
Rhyme Scheme: aa bcbddedefgfg
Example
Sonnet Reversed by Rupert Brooke
Hand trembling towards hand; the amazing lights
Of heart and eye. They stood on supreme heights.
Ah, the delirious weeks of honeymoon!
Soon they returned, and, after strange adventures,
Settled at Balham by the end of June.
Their money was in Can. Pacs. B. Debentures,
And in Antofagastas. Still he went
Cityward daily; still she did abide
At home. And both were really quite content
With work and social pleasures. Then they died.
They left three children (besides George, who drank):
The eldest Jane, who married Mr Bell,
William, the head-clerk in the County Bank,
And Henry, a stock-broker, doing well
Fateful Moment
Inspired by and written for Weekend Writing Prompt – Thank you, Sammi
Fateful Moment
Form: Free Verse
Far-reaching events changing the course of living be it gentle persuasion or a hefty shove for the worse of it or hopefully the better it is consequential reason life had to change
Word count: 32
©JezzieGFarmer2022
Roentgenize
Inspired by Word of the Day
Form: Lune
exposing fractures reset bones healing in plaster
©JezzieGFarmer2022
Androgyny Confounds
Androgyny Confounds
Form: Loose Sapphic
What is to say of my androgynous state,
the son that never was born in blissful joy
or the maiden daughter unblessed by beauty
just where should I be?
I see balance with nature's most sacred act
that gave me life so I may learn who I am,
from their love, the act of he and she, the rose
with a boyish smile.
Yet if she should hold me close and kiss the smile
my Sapphic heart would be dared to quench her thirst
as molten femininity embraces
the girl that I am.
Labels of identity fail to touch the truth
or justify the woman that breathes in me
mere titles cannot express lores of passion
as I understand
©JezzieG2010
Jezzie G 