Day: April 6, 2024

Magnolia Blossom by Imogen Cunningham

~ JezzieG
Magnolia Blossom by Imogen Cunningham

Magnolia Blossom
1925
Pictorialism
Gelatin silver print
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

In the mid-1920s Cunningham spent most of her time raising her young family. As the best means of continuing her work whilst being an active mother, she began photographing the flowers in her garden at close range. ‘Magnolia Blossom’ is one of her most iconic images with the flower illuminated by the glow of natural light

Imogen Cunningham 1883-1976

Imogen Cunningham
Pictorialism, Straight Photography, Group f/64
Born: 12 April 1883, Oregon, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 23. June 1976, California, USA

Cunningham was a photographer known for her botanical photography, nudes, and industrial landscapes. She was a member of Group f/64 dedicated to shar-focus renditions of simple subjects

Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten

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Benjamin Britten 1913-1976

Peter Grimes
1945
Opera

Benjamin Britten
Opera, Orchestral, Chamber Music
Born: 22 November 1913, Lowestoft, England
Nationality: British
Died: 4 December 1976, Aldeburgh, England

Britten was a composer, conductor, and pianist. A central figure of 20th century British music Britten’s range included opera, vocal music, orchestral, and chamber pieces. He is best known for the opera “Peter Grimes” 1945, the orchestral showpiece “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (1945), and the “War Requiem” (1962)

HERODOTUS IN EGYPT REMEMBERS DELOS by Ruth Padel

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Ruth Padel 1946-

HERODOTUS IN EGYPT REMEMBERS DELOS
1985

The ground verdigris, fluffy with young mosquitoes. Waters
as sacred as these, as fatted with reeds. Bronze palm planted
to Sun. Lizards, Nile alligators, hindquarters
rolling on granite sphinx-chippings. Air salted with confident
brown larks, Travelling, you remember (mind
upturning these foreign priests, finding
the causes) that stamen-summit: white long
unbloody altar, giddy blues under you, calyx of bronze
flat islands unfolding, blind

Ruth Padel
Born: 8 May 1946, London, UK
Nationality: British

Padel is a poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer. She is best known for her poetic explorations of migration, both animal and human, and her involvement in classical music, wildlife conservation, and Greece, ancient and modern

You Make Loving Fun by Fleetwood Mac

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Fleetwood Mac

You Make Loving Fun
Album: Rumours
Date: 1977
Genre: Rock
Artist: Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac are a rock band, formed in London, UK, in 1967 by guitarists and vocalists Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer and drummer Mick Fleetwood. They were joined by bassist John McVie and guitarist Danny Kirwan in 1968. Christine Perfect was a session musician for the band’s second album. She married McVie and joined the band in 1970 as Christine McVie, Stevie Nicks, and Lindsey Buckingham joined the band in 1974, replacing Green, Spencer, and Kirwan

Waiting Room

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A Garret Poet

Waiting Room
Form: Quatrain

Sad face behind magazine,
pristine room with no voices,
all waiting in silent thought,
as she’s caught with no choices.

Unwanted babe, who’ll ne’er smile,
another file in grey case,
no name but just a number,
to slumber without a trace.

Unseeing eyes shield the tears,
and fears of the judgemental
concealed behind a false name
she remains non-parental.

Her child taken without love,
no winged dove to take his soul,
careers cannot replace life,
and the strife she’ll ne’er control.

Her soul is washed with her guilt,
the walls she built not enough,
no one warned that truth returns
and yearns against the heart’s bluff

©JezzieG2024

Oblivious (Ovi Poetry Challenge)

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Inspired by and written for the Ovi Poetry Challenge – thank you Ronovan

Ovi Poetry Challenge 42: OBLIVIOUS is your inspiration.

I’m not sure if Ronovan intends to inspire with his thoughts, but going with something he said this week

Form: Ovi

Our past just left alone out there
With none to wonder, nor to care
But history has so much to share
If we dare to just take a look

On this isle surrounded by sea
I wonder how a thing came to be
How it got there’s a mystery
Standing Stones don’t just fall in place

Stones from Wales without a truck
This can’t just be pure dumb luck
But to drag them there would suck
How can people just ignore it

That’s the how but what about why
Such things exist beneath the sky
Yet still release my soul to fly
To the future that is my own

©JezzieG2024