Poetry, stories, art, and music from the desk of Jezzie G, a writer without a label
I Feel Free
Album: The Boat That Rocked
Date: 1966
Genre: Blues Rock
Artist: Cream
Cream were a rock band formed in London, UK in 1966. The group consisted of Jack Bruce (bassist), Eric Clapton (guitarist), and Ginger Baker (drummer). Formed by members of previously successful bands Cream is considered the first supergroup
Le Canard Inquiétant
1959
Neo-Dada
Oil on canvas
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
An example of Jorn’s modifications, creating a painting on a pre-existing work purchased from a flea market, ‘Le Canard Inquiétant’ alludes to Hans Christian Anderson’s ‘Ugly Duckling.’ Jorn emphasizes the out-of-placeness felt by the swan raised by a family of ducks through the duckling’s ludicrous size in relation to its setting
Asger Jorn
Art Informel, Art Brut and Outsider Art, Neo-Dada, CoBrA Group, Situationist International
Born: 3 March 1914, Jutland, Denmark
Nationality: Danish
Died: 1 May 1973, Aarhus, Denmark
Jorn was a painter, sculptor, ceramic artist, and author. A founding member of COBRA and the Situationist International the largest collection of his work, including Stalingrad, is housed by the Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Piano Concerto No. 3
1945
Concerto
Béla Bartók
Classical, Russian Dance
Born: 25 March 1881, Sânnicolau Mare, Romania
Nationality: Hungarian
Died: 26 September 1945, New York, USA
Bartók was a composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist, considered one of the 20th century’s most important composers. His collection and study of folk music and was a founder of comparative musicology, now known as ethnomusicology
Michael Jackson
There ain’t NO-BO-DY
can dance like THAT, ‘cept them twins
Jazzlene and Jazzphat
James A Emanuel
Born: 15 June 1921, Nebraska, USA
Nationality: American
Died: 28 September 2013, Paris, France
Emanuel was a poet and a scholar. He is renowned as one of the best and most neglected poets of the 20th century and published more than 300 poems, 13 books, and an influential anthology of African-American literature, Emanuel is credited with the creation of the jazz and blues haiku genre, often read with a musical accompaniment
Mischief Maker
Prompt: Five five-line stanzas of free verse
In the midst of a lightening flash
You struck the earth with chaos
A gift of uncertainty to a world of mayhem
A cruel act of nature at her worst
Fuelling the storms of madness
Along come the winds to clear storms away
But more trouble rides in with each gust
Hopping off here and there
Before enticing the oceans
To join in with their song
The longed-for embrace of the sun
Begins gently and feels welcome
Yet there too is the heat of destruction
And everyone says the weather’s gone mad
In the battles between storms and drought
The seasons are all over the place
And plant life has now lost its sync
When to flower and when to rest
While the creatures gather in what they can
Uncertain of what will come next
Will the rivers flood out
Before they dry up into naught
And trees don’t know what’s going on
Yet nature is laughing
Before recapturing her mischievous sprite
©JezzieG2024
Inspired by and for The Weekend Puzzler #2 by BushBoy
It has to be said I am no photographer so I wouldn’t insult Bushboy’s brilliance with my attempts at taking snaps. I am, however, a huge fan of the artist Franz Marc and he painted a lot of horses and it niggled at the back of my mind that he painted a sleeping horse. So I started digging in my art archives and I found it.
I will run with that because it is Bushboy who gave me the excuse to look through my collection of Franz Marc and it’s a rather good painting.
Jezzie G 