Day: June 1, 2024

Curtain Fall

~ JezzieG ~ 1 Comment

Curtain Fall
Form: Sicilian Quintain

Words scribed in blood on sacred page
By Death’s own hand they are so composed
While the ravens wait in the storms that rage
Yet they wait for that time undisclosed
As life plays out on Fate’s stage

But time will pass along to Death’s curse
The minutes and hours the turning pages of his book
And all memories become poetic verse
For life must come to rest and take a look
At what has been done for better or worse

From this Death’s shadow the senses numb
In the darkness facing the reality of truth
The mourning tears flow melancholic and glum
Too late to hand over the promised eye-tooth
For Death has seen totality in a life’s sum

The moments long gone of when we could
The silver key has turned in the lock of black
Has life been lived the way it should
Now Death has come to hand out payback
It’s too late to say if I’d known I would

©JezzieG2024

Signs by James Newton Howard

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James Newton Howard 1951-

Signs
2002
Film and TV

James Newton Howard
Film and TV, Rock, Pop
Born: 9 June 1951, California, USA
Nationality: American

Howard is a film composer, music producer, and keyboardist. He has composed over 100 film scores over his career and received a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards

On His Blindness by John Milton

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John Milton 1608-1674

On His Blindness
1673

When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
“Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?”
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: “God doth not need
Either man’s work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o’er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait.”

John Milton
Born: 9 December 1608, London, England
Nationality: English
Died: 8 November 1674, London, England

Milton was a poet, polemicist, and civil servant. He is best known for the epic poem ‘Paradise Lost’ (1667), composed in blank verse over ten books and written at a time of religious flux and political upheaval. Milton served as a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell

Jail Bait by Wishbone Ash

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Wishbone Ash

Jail Bait
Album: Pilgrimage
Date: 1971
Genre: Rock
Artist: Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash are a rock band formed in Devon, England in 1969 by Martin Turner. The band achieved success in the early to mid-1970s with albums such as ‘Wishbone Ash’ (1970), ‘Argus’ (1972), and ‘There’s the Rub’ (1974)

Pink Area by Robert Mangold

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Pink Area by Robert Mangold

Pink Area
1965
Minimalism
Sprayed oil on Masonite on plywood
Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA

‘Pink Area’ is painted on two rectangular strips of Masonite joined together. To avoid the impression of the artist’s touch Mangold spray-painted the Masonite with a gradient running from creamy grey to soft pink,

Robert Mangold 1937-

Robert Mangold
Minimalism, Modern Art
Born: 12 October 1937, New York, USA
Nationality: American

Mangold is a minimalist artist and the father of screenwriter and film director James Mangold

Ambivalent (Ragtag Daily Prompt)

~ JezzieG

Inspired by and written for the Ragtag Daily Prompt, my thanks to Martha Kennedy

RDP Friday! Ambivalent!

Form: The Blitz

It’s complicated
It’s hard to explain
Explaining over and over
Explanations without clarity
Clarity without vision
Clarity hidden in the mist
Mist dividing truth from reality
Misty clouds drifting through my mind
Mind over matter
Mind doesn’t matter
Matters of fact
Matters of irrelevant thinking
Thinking it through before
Thinking it will be okay
Okay whatever
Okay why did you ask
Asking questions
Ask for questions without
Without answers you want
Without resolution
Resolution on the one-way street
Resolutions that disagree
Disagreements of fundamental values
Disagreement on what is truth
Truth is honesty
Truth is a personal experience
Experience of reality in action
Experience tutoring awareness
Awareness of what works for one person
Awareness others don’t understand
Understanding denies my belief
Understanding just another empty promise
Promise it won’t happen again
Promise that it will be the same
Same shit on a different day
Same shit breaking my heart
Heart shattered on the rocks of love
Heart lost in mental confusion
Confusion a new status quo
Confusion focused on indecisive dreams
Dreams of unyielding certainty
Dreams conflicting against emotions
Emotions lost to physical demand
Emotions scattered too far away
Away from the safe place
Away from all of this
This I don’t care do whatever
This your desire for the story told by O
Oh
Whatever

©JezzieG2024