Day: February 28, 2023

Morning Blue

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Morning Blue
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 88

Watercolour blue skies of morning light
Cups of coffee after working the night
As the sunrises I am thinking you
A quiet moment before drifting sleep
While shades of love turning to azure blue
These are the times with you I miss the most
The coming home after a long night shift
As we shared coffee and hot buttered toast
And the strains of the night your kiss helped lift
On Sundays we would walk along the coast
Now sat here alone I can only weep
My nights dream of you and our love so true
You were my life and the most precious gift
For love to bestow on a morning bright

©JezzieG2023

Chaos (The Creation) by Ivan Aivazovsky

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Chaos (The Creation) by Ivan Aivazovsky

Chaos (The Creation)
1841
Romanticism
Oil on Canvas

Mawkish to the modern eye “Chaos (the Creation)” was painted when Aivazovsky was living in Rome after his studies at the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, Pope Gregory XVI who had it hung in the Vatican despite its portrayal of a literal divine presence. Whether mischievously pandering to literal-minded taste or his own beliefs the painting was a blockbuster for an ambitious young artist.

Ivan Aivazovsky 1817-1900

Ivan Aivazovsky
Romanticism
Born: 29 July 1817, Theodosia, Ukraine
Nationality: Russian
Died: 20 May 1900, Theodosia, Ukraine

Aivazovsky was a Romantic painter. He is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Following his academic education at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Aivazovsky travelled to Europe and briefly lived in Italy in the 1840s

Cyhydedd Hir Notes

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A Welsh poetic form, the Cyhydedd Hir consists of 4-line stanzas. Lines 1, 2, and 3 have five syllables each and line 4 has four syllables. Lines 1, 2, and 3 rhyme with each other and line 4 of the first quatrain rhymes with the second. Consecutive stanzas can be connected by the 4th line rhyme to create longer stanzas

Rhyme schemes
aaab cccb ddde fffe and so on

aaabcccb dddefffe and so on

aaabcccbdddb eeefgggf hhhijjjikkki and so on

Example

Elphin and the Boy by JezzieG

Fishing lines were bare
Heart filled with despair
But a child found there
So it shall be

Elphin’s heart so sad
And what of the lad
This child needs a dad
So it shall be

Taliesin by name
His brow shines no shame
His wisdom acclaim
So it shall be

And he speaks this lad
No fish, don’t be sad
What is yours be glad
So it shall be

Blinded

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Through The Cracked Window (Revisited)

There were times when nothing mattered
A time when the edge was only a dream
No one can explain how this could happen
Always trying not to take this too far now

Surely we have been made for another place
Where every sound is a symphony yet unheard
Temptation is falling and calling us home
Beyond the boundaries of the city lights

When that moment comes, who will be your help?
Heaving the last air of a world slipping away
Seeing colors we have never seen before
Voices in the dark call but no one listens

Stoic Poetry

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Risqué (RDP)

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Inspired by and written for Ragtag Daily Prompts – my thanks to Martha Kennedy

Definition: Risqué – adj. slightly indecent and liable to shock, especially by being sexually suggestive

Synonyms: bawdy, indecent, rude, racy, broad, earthy,

Form: Haiku

racy yellow blooms
tempting spring’s sensual delights
oh those birds and bees
bluetits chase ladies
come to the nest and lay eggs
raven calls his life mate
pollen collectors
early bees busy sharing
for next year's flowers

©JezzieG2023

I Know Him Well (WPWC)

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Inspired by and written for Weekly Prompts Wednesday Challenge – thank you GC and Suem and my apologies I think this one got itself lost in my editing files

Form: Ottava Rima

A sense of fun lightens the day
Reading memes while drinking tea
Mixing work with a little play
Mischief making comes for free
Sparkling eyes give nothing away
Just who put salt in the tea
I look across at those eyes
The blood bond wears no disguise

©JezzieG2023

Ingenious (YDWP)

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Inspired by and written for Your Daily Word Prompt – my thanks to Sheryl

Definition: Ingenious – adj. (of a person) clever, original, and inventive

Synonyms: inventive, creative, imaginative, original, innovative, resourceful

Form: Pathya Vat

a mind’s resource
thinking it out
working it out
sketchy outlines
imaginings
of what could be
setting it free
escapism

©JezzieG2023