Day: February 22, 2024

Bye Bye Love by The Everly Brothers

~ JezzieG
The Everly Brothers

Bye Bye Love
Album: The Everly Brothers
Date: 1958
Genre: Pop
Artist: The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers were a rock duo best known for close harmony singing and playing the steel-string acoustic guitar. The duo consisted of brothers Don Everly (1937-2021) and Phil Everly (1939-2014). The Everly Brothers combined rock ‘n’ roll, country, and pop becoming pioneers of country rock

Death Ship by Alfred Wallis

~ JezzieG
Death Ship by Alfred Wallis

Death Ship
1941-42
Naïve Art
Oil on card
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England

‘Death Ship’ portrays a large black ship billowing steam. Five sailors can be seen on the ship as it travels through the ice-white seas. Pained towards the end of his life they reflect a period of deep sadness in Wallis’ life. His eyesight and mental health were deteriorating and he was feeling the throes of isolation.

Alfred Wallis 1855-1942

Alfred Wallis
Art Brut and Outside, St Ives School
Born: 18 August 1855, Devon. England
Nationality: British
Died: 29 August 1942, Madron England

Wallis was a fisherman and artist best known for his port landscapes and shipping scenes in a naïve style. With no formal training, he began painting at the age of 70 using household paint on cardboard

Valentine Reminder

~ JezzieG

Valentine Reminder
Form: Epistle Sonnet 40

Another rose laid out upon my desk
The scattered petals there like pools of blood
Yet her beauty remains so picturesque

Holding back my tears that now want to flood
As I saw the ultimate petal fall
And knew the lovely rose had met her death
To remind me today is Valentine
And that seems to me now, a bit grotesque

Was this rose fooled by the season’s cold breath
Or an answer to love’s romantic call?
And now I pray your lips did not taste Lethe
As my feelings can remember it all

When this day of love was one blessed divine
And your lips told me again, you were mine

©JezzieG2024

Get Happy by Judy Garland

~ JezzieG ~ 1 Comment
Judy Garland 1922-1969

Get Happy
1953
Jazz

Judy Garland
Popular Music
Born: 10 June 1922, Minnesota, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 22 June 1969, London, UK

Judy Garland was an actress and singer who attained international fame in both musical and dramatic roles and as a concert performer and recording artist. She was awarded the Academy Juvenile Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Special Tony Award

Caudate Sonnet Notes

~ JezzieG
A Garret Poet

Created by: Francesco Berni
Structure: Octave, sestet, and triplet
Meter: Decasyllabic or pentameter, tail line hexasyllabic or trimeter
Rhyme Scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd dee
Notes: A Petrarchan Sonnet, followed by a 1/2 line and a heroic couplet

Example

The Joyful Lark by JezzieG

Into the sky the lark is on her wing
As now in her joyful play she ascends
As to the earth her happy song descends
And from in the field I hear her voice sing
So to my heart her pleasure she can bring
Now that through the air her joy winds and wends
A sense of happiness slowly transcends
As she soars the clouds doing her own thing

I stop my walk to listen for awhile
Even though she flies beyond my eye’s sight
I know she’s there and makes me glad to smile
For her singing fills my heart with delight
And I walk on across the field and stile
A happier man than I was last night

Her song of joy so bright
For a few minutes, my pleasure to hark
The singing of such a beautiful lark

A Year in the Life – Day 92

~ JezzieG

Day 92
Prompt: Blood and guts in fiction,

Hi Nigel

Oh, hello, no guessing who came up with that prompt’

Haha, you really see me as a bit of a psycho, don’t you?

‘It wasn’t an insult. I don’t think you would back off from writing it bloody and gory if the story required it.

I have no qualms about doing that. If your story is going to involve the mistreatment of animals then it is undoubtedly going to get messy.

‘I know’

So how do you feel about that?

‘I wouldn’t want it to be real but if the story is to make sense, I think it’s a case of it is necessary’

Indeed, we are not going to convince anyone with cute little bunnies happily bouncing about

‘As lovely as that would be I can understand that’

Apart from convincing the reader of the reality of the animal victims, how you react is going to matter too

‘Yes, and happy bunnies won’t make me take action against it’

A campaign of ‘Stop Rabbits Being Happy’ isn’t really going to do it

‘Haha! Without being cruel, how would you stop rabbits being happy?’

Dope their lettuce

‘Haha! Lettuce is dope to rabbits look at the effect on Peter Rabbit’

So it’s already been done, make the rabbit go to sleep so he’s in danger from a pie-eating farmer

‘That sheds a whole new light on that story’

But does it? If he hadn’t been knocked out by the effects of lettuce Peter wouldn’t have fallen asleep and his reactions to running away might have been less impaired.

‘That’s true. I bet you even see a darker side to Mrs Tiggywinkle.’

I think that story is more of a reflection of how things were when Potter wrote the stories

‘Like hedgepigs did laundry’

No, but you don’t see any mention of Mr Tiggywinkle, do you? So assuming that Mrs Tiggywinkle was a widow, there was no welfare state, so widows may have taken in laundry to earn a wage.

‘Daisy May took in laundry. Is that why?’

I don’t think so, I believe she was in service before she got married, and doing laundry after would have supplemented her husband’s income.

‘So we are not landed gentry stock then?’

Not at that point in history no.

‘Meaning at some point we could be’

Given the name Plantagenet appears in our family history, it is possible

‘That’s not just gentry, is it?’

Indeed, it is what is classed as good breeding of old stock. See you tomorrow, Nige

©JezzieG2024