Inspired by A Word A Day – thank you, Anu
Form: Dodoitsu
sugar paste figures that skate on the soft white layer top bright ribbons of red and gold hiding a fruit cake
©JezzieG2022
Pastilage (AWAD)
Day: December 22, 2022
Rise (RDP)
Inspired by and written for Ragtag Daily Prompts – thank you, drkottaway
Form: Tanka
night fades into light
dawn shimmering before rain
long nights get shorter
and the daylight hours longer
the wheel turning toward spring
©JezzieG2022
Mail Call by Randall Jarrell
Mail Call
The letters always just evade the hand
One skates like a stone into a beam, falls like a bird.
Surely the past from which the letters rise
Is waiting in the future, past the graves?
The soldiers are all haunted by their lives.
Their claims upon their kind are paid in paper
That established a presence, like a smell.
In letters and in dreams they see the world.
They are waiting: and the years contract
To an empty hand, to one unuttered sound —
The soldier simply wishes for his name
Randall Jarrell
Born: 6 May 1914, Tennessee, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 14 October 1965, North Carolina, USA
Jarrell was a literary critic, children’s author, essayist, novelist, and poet. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. Jarrell received the Guggenheim Fellowship award for 1947-48, and the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961
Pilastri reggenti statue equestri by Antonio Sant’Elia
Pilastri reggenti statue equestri
1913
Futurism
Sant’Elia moved away from Secessionist styles in 1913. Whilst working in Milan he witnessed new innovations in building materials and techniques, urban planning, and industry and planned on taking these ideas and expanding them to develop a completely unique vision of modernity in designs such as La Citta Nuovo. “Pilastri Reggenti Statue Equestri” portrays part of the journey in Sant’Elia’s work showing the simplification of structural elements and the removal of unnecessary decorative motifs.
Antonio Sant’Elia
Futurism
Born: 30 April 1888, Lombardy, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Died: 10 October 1916, Gorizia, Italy
Sant’Elia was an architect and a key member of the Futurist movement in architecture. However, as he left behind uncompleted works of architecture he is remembered for his bold sketches and influence on modern architecture
Safari Inn by Slash
Safari Inn by Slash
Safari Inn
Album: World on Fire
Date: 2014
Genre: Rock
Artist: Slash
Slash is a British-American musician best known as the lead guitarist in the hard rock band Guns N’ Roses with whom he achieved global success in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Slash is considered one of the greatest guitarists in history
Nashers Notes
Named after Ogden Nash, Nashers are couplets of any length that feature comical rhymes, including wrenched rhymes. A wrenched rhyme example from Nash’s poem “Kindly Unhitch the Star, Buddy” is rhinestones and ghrinestones.
Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc and so on
Example
Keep Walking? by Robert Lee Brewer
I walked alone deliberately in solitary liberty
as if no more civility could force a case of mirthity,
but then a black cat crossed my path sans any consideration
for superstitious natures or internal deliberations
Practice Makes Imperfect
Practice Makes Imperfect
Form: Diminishing Verse
Practicing notes in a musical scale
Is rather like eating kale
I’d sooner be drinking ale
It’s messing about with this, that, and a scrap
Always sounds totally crap
And will never make a rap
Still, it is part of learning to play
Seeds of tunes it will lay
and that’s good, hey!
©JGFarmer2022
The Alley
Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – thank you GC and Sue
The Alley
Form: Mash-up Short Forms
behind W.H. Smiths
runs an old-world narrow lane
of old-fashioned shops
butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers
in the middle of all that
boutiques of all things strange
sweets sold by the ounce
buttermints
for just a penny
but strangest of all
a purveyor of antiques
things no longer used
from days before Victoria
and no one knows what they’re for
carefully crafted metal
mechanical things of maybe
did it do that or perhaps this
I’m really not sure
marked by maker’s name
objets d’art
detailed in beauty
curious
meets fine art
©JezzieG2022
Tokyo After Dark — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Photographer André Bogaert is the Edge of Humanity Magazine contributor of these images. From the series “Midnight Diner” aka “Shinjuku at night”. To see André’s body of work, click on any photograph. These images were inspired by the TV show Midnight Diner (Netflix). All…
Tokyo After Dark — Edge of Humanity Magazine
Different Flame
Different Flame
Form: Spenserian Sonnet
How can the shouts of prejudice reveal
the truth of love, absolute love divine;
with bitterness behind an unseen line
where none can see desire, our hearts conceal.
The acts of hatred hurling cruel abuse,
yet still, our love affirms our self-respect
to feel; to be is no human defect
in this evil world where love is obtuse.
The ideal, a vision of clarity
to sing of love with a different flame,
to make a vow, a pledge in true love's name
and live in freedom found in liberty
Equality in life a basic right
whether we be gay, straight, bi or transvestite
©JezzieG2010
Jezzie G 