Poetry, stories, art, and music from the desk of Jezzie G, a writer without a label
Can’t Get Enough
Album: Love Moves
Date: 1990
Genre: Pop
Artist: Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde is a singer who first found success in the early 1980s with her debut single ‘Kids in America’ (1981). She received the Brit Award for Best British Female Solo Artist in 1983
Figures in Motion
2013
Neo-Expressionism
Acrylic, charcoal, and pastel on linen
Private Collection
In ‘Figures in Motion’ Condo combines a variety of influences and styles to create a frenetic scene in which fractured figures are superimposed on one another. Vibrant and uplifting colours with a vivacious sense of movement seem joyful and celebratory especially when considering the painting was created shortly after Condo’s experience with Legionnaire’s disease.
George Condo
Neo-Expressionism
Born: 10 December 1957, New Hampshire, USA
Nationality: American
Condo is a visual artist who works in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking. He currently lives and works in New York City
I’m Comin’ Virginia
1926
Jazz
Bix Beiderbecke
Jazz, Blues
Born: 10 March 1903, Iowa, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 6 August 1931, New York, USA
Beiderbecke was a jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer. He was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, noted for his inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone that heralded the jazz ballad style
Souls in Moonlight
Form: Rubaiyat
I love watching your body breathe
Before I then lean to retrieve
So gently the kiss of your lips
A brief touch in our love’s reprieve
The moment when our passion slips
My shoulders feel your finger grips
Pulling desire in the bloodrush
And I’m lost in my lover’s trips
Around us, the world falls into hush
As in wildness, our senses gush
Union of souls in moonlight
Does our loving now make her blush?
©JezzieG2024
Circe’s Power
1996
I never turned anyone into a pig.
Some people are pigs; I make them
Look like pigs.
I’m sick of your world
That lets the outside disguise the inside. Your men weren’t bad men;
Undisciplined life
Did that to them. As pigs,
Under the care of
Me and my ladies, they
Sweetened right up.
Then I reversed the spell, showing you my goodness
As well as my power. I saw
We could be happy here,
As men and women are
When their needs are simple. In the same breath,
I foresaw your departure,
Your men with my help braving
The crying and pounding sea. You think
A few tears upset me? My friend,
Every sorceress is
A pragmatist at heart; nobody sees essence who can’t
Face limitation. If I wanted only to hold you
I could hold you prisoner
Louise Gluck
Born: 22 April 1943, New York, USA
Nationality: American
Glück is a poet, essayist, and winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature. While in high school she suffered from anorexia nervosa and later overcame the illness. Often described as autobiographical poet Glück’s work is best known for its emotional intensity and for drawing on mythology or nature to reflect modern life
Day 101
Prompt: The essence of you. Ten things that make up the essence of who are
Hi Nigel,
‘Hiya! Oh bloody hell’
The page is yours, mate
‘I’m doing this on my own?’
I think you should, but I’m not going anywhere
‘Okay’
Umm, where to start. I think a vitality for life and living things is number one. It has to be. Life isn’t just a mundane thing it is one of the big adventures of existence. Yes. I think that should be top of the list. Each life is a journey and how we live and interact with living things makes up a lot of who we are – so perhaps we should tread kindly on both us and the world around us’
‘That brings me to my second one – kindness. Now I don’t mean kindness as always being nice as sometimes that is dangerous and leaves us open to abuse and hurt. Sometimes kindness has to be towards the self. You will be checking my spelling and grammar, won’t you?
Yes, Nige.
‘Thank you. And I suppose that brings me to number three. I like getting things right. I know there can be happy little accidents, and they are cool, every artist and creative knows that happens. At the same time if something is wrong it will glare at us no matter how much we try to disguise it, so then it needs to be put right’
‘Four and five go together and they are joy and pleasure. Hearing birdsong in the morning is simply one of the most joyous things there is and it makes even a tough day so much more pleasurable. Call me selfish if you will, but I don’t always want to share the little pleasures of life. Not everyone finds what I enjoy pleasurable anyway and then the sharing tends to spoil the whole thing. With the right person, all things are pleasurable, of course’
‘That brings me to number six. Love. I don’t mean the grand passions of romance, at least I don’t think I do. I mean the gentle love that resonates from within the soul and fills us with a warm feeling in those cold moments of loneliness. It doesn’t necessarily come from someone else it is just there and best of all it is there when we least expect it.’
‘I’m glad I can see you, mate, as I am getting the eye reaction that says I am not a complete fruit loop’
‘However, number seven is a little bit of insanity, a sense of the crazy that takes us out of the humdrum and makes us unique.’
‘Number eight has to be a sense of animalism. A subtle reminder to the human self that we are just another one of nature’s creatures and are no more deserving of nature’s bounty than a gnat or flea’
‘That I suppose leads to number nine and the innate desire to be part of the wild wilderness, to live in tune with nature and let things be how nature dictates.’
‘Now ten, I suppose it contradicts number nine, but I do like the feeling of self-awareness and confidence to be myself in this world. Maybe it doesn’t contradict, maybe that is what nature intends me to be’
‘Well, writer have I done it right?’
I see nothing wrong with what you have said, Nige
‘That was nerve-wracking, is writing always that tough’
Not always, you did well. See you tomorrow, Nige
©JezzieG2024
Jezzie G 