Poetry, stories, art, and music from the desk of Jezzie G, a writer without a label
Flames Eternal
Form: Septilla
The fire we made last night still glows
Our love burns as the divine knows
Yet for this while we are apart
We know it’s eternity’s flame
That welds our souls in love’s own name
Since we kissed at the very start
United as one as time goes
©JezzieG2024
Springtime Bolero
Form: Nashers
In my garden, she sits
In the sunshine it’s
Her blissful spot
For watching the world, not
A care in the world has she
On a spring day, she can be
A little sparrow
Singing her springtime bolero
©JezzieG2024
Gogyohka Notes
The Gogyohka was developed by Enta Kusakabe in Japan and translates to “five-line poem.” It has very simple rules.
The poem is comprised of 5 lines
Each line has one phrase
Example
Chat Up Lines by JezzieG
Empty expressions of flattery
Used here too many times
Reduced morals from loose lips
Float on scotch mist and lust
Thank you, I’ll stick with coffee
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
Sweet Captivity
Form: Cyrch a Cywta
Along the path of love, I trail,
beneath the starlit skies so pale
across the seas, you bid me sail,
for you have found my heart’s detail.
My love for you, I’ll never fail,
as my words oft said in email,
to sing the songs that make you smile,
and all the while love will prevail.
When on the ship I sit and think,
and see your eyes in brightness blink,
as from the chalice we both drink,
the ruby wine as dark as ink.
Your cheeks are flushed with rosy-pink,
the words you say I chant lip sync,
and beg you let me in your heart
and there impart my lover’s link.
My sweetest love I want to be
the girl you need upon your knee
I’m bound in chains from you to me
yet in your arms, I can be free.
For love is sweet captivity,
when you can hear my heart’s decree
as now I am your humbled slave
it’s you I crave to grasp love’s plea
©JezzieG2024
Found Poetry Notes
Found poetry is the discovery of words that were never meant to be a poem, and turning those words as they were originally into a poem. Newspaper and magazine articles, snippets of overheard conversations on the bus, instructions, recipes, mail shots, spam emails, and absolutely anything else can be used.
With Found poetry, the poet doesn’t alter the words but makes line breaks, cuts out the excess, or even adds a bit of punctuation to create a Found poem. Often a Found poem will change the message of the original words without changing the words.
Example
Sweet Treasure by JezzieG
Mermaid,
a vault of treasures
tears formed of pearls
luscious hair woven
into finest of silk
exquisite marine blood
a euphoric drug
the vampires crave
and their tender flesh
the werewolves savour as Ambrosia
Founded by Gregory K Pincus the Fibonacci or Fib is a 6-line poem that follows the mathematical Fibonacci sequence to create its line length count as follows
Line 1 – 1 syllable
Line 2 – 1 syllable
Line 3 – 2 syllables
Line 4 – 3 syllables
Line 5 – 5 syllables
Line 6 – 8 syllables
Example
Memory by Jezzie G
Deep
In
My soul
I knew you
Before we first met
This love my soul never forgets
Visser Sonnet Notes
Created by: Audrae Visser
Structure: Octet and sestet
Meter: Pentameter or Decasyllabic
Rhyme Scheme: Internal rhyme abbaabba cdecde
Example
That Abyss by JezzieG
That one time, the first time you saw her there
She’s seeing your thoughts of ambivalence
And you hear her wail while starting to prance
For soon you’ll kiss Death and become aware
The reaper, sweeping you in with her glare
And she points to you making her advance
Calling you to her side for a last dance
Calling your name for you to take her dare
Robed in gossamer silk, arms extended
She invites you to take her offered kiss
Or let her go so you may live again
It’s then you know your life almost ended
As you stand at the edge of Death’s abyss
And life and love can never be the same
Unnamed Sonnet 12 Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M Reyes
Structure: Octet and sestet
Meter: Pentameter or Decasyllabic
Rhyme Scheme: ababcdcd eefgfg
Example
Insanity by JezzieG
The protestors went mad because of it
Their beliefs say it is all very wrong
And conservatives can’t make it all fit
Not if they work at it all the day long
The men in suits want to profit from change
Whilst making the rest of the people pay
The locals say it is all out their range
Their wages spent they can’t make the outlay
Government corruption is clear to see
The lies dictating what we should all be
Oppositions don’t shout or even moan
And me, all I want is a bit of peace
Just an hour or two away from my phone
But the phone rings will it never cease?
Unnamed Sonnet 13 Notes
Created by: Jose Rizal M Reyes
Structure: Octet and sestet
Meter: Pentameter or Decasyllabic
Rhyme Scheme: ababcdcd efegfg
Example
Musing On a Line by Jezzie G
A gentle breeze that takes my cares away
And it brings the taste of the open sea
A cool welcome on a late summer day
And the seagulls gather not far from me
The heat of the day moves to the black clouds
To fade into the distant falling rain
Far from the chatter of the feathered crowds
I sip my wine in this quiet refrain
Late summer has come with its own reward
A quiet evening on an empty beach
This peaceful place is my gentle award
As I contemplate, musing on a line
And the cooling change is changing my reach
As the autumn days will surely be mine
My Lady of Moonlight
Form: Nocturna
The moon has come in glory to light the sky
Just as you came to me to light up my life
Showing me that love is the only reason why
That these are the moments I will always write
For in that moonlight, I discovered my wife
Bring me comfort and freedom in the darkness of night
And like the lady moon, you are my queen
And I, your consort of night, bring you no strife
For it is the glory of love that sets our scene
©JezzieG2023
First Flight
Form: Cinquain
released
freedom to fly
red and gold shadow wings
to dance on autumn’s feisty winds
leaves fall
©JezzieG2010
Skipping on Rainbows
Form: Abstract Free verse
They are cutting it fine for flight 2049
With boarding passes checked
As the gate closes
Milan will not be kept waiting
With its catwalks calling
The models of high fashion
In the cockpit, the pianist begins another number
And the jazz singer sings
Her melodramatic tones
Curl in strands of hallucination
Until the engines buzz wildly into take-off
And the pianist ups the tempo
When the jitterbugs start eating the carpet
And airplane wings dissipate
In cascades of falling-up stars
And Torvil and Dean are dancing on
Purple fountains of cloudy memories
Handing out cups of tea
Without dripping
Just old-fashioned buttered toast
I close my eyes
Opening up my own dreams
Away from the surrealistic reality
©JezzieG2023
Bank Holiday Blues
Form: Magic 9
He asks the questions while his pen ticks
And I ask why I am so broken
He leaves and my mind plays the same tricks
But I can’t laugh when I need to the most
And I can’t cry the tears that will fix
The spirals of thoughts drive me insane
Regressive dreams stirring up the mix
I see my ring, shiny love token
And he returns to collect more ticks
©JezzieG2023
Form Notes: Magic 9
Rhyme Schema: abacadeba
Meter/Line Length: 9 syllable lines
Structure: 9-line stanza
Poem Length: 1 stanza
Letters in Ribbon
Form: Magic 9
Those letters written by her hand
Memories tied in a ribbon bow
And the life together we had planned
Spilled out on the page in crimson ink
Recalling our walks along the strand
Now as I watch the sea come and go
I can see the girl who made me smile
And of how our love can only grow
Here in this place where we both would stand
©JezzieG2023
Form Notes: Magic 9
Rhyme Schema: abacadeba
Meter: 9-syllable lines
Structure: Stanzaic
Length: 1 stanza
Crying Blue
Form: Unnamed Sonnet 14
I see her standing in the twilight glow
Now the cloudy skies have hidden the sun
For she has gone forever that I know
I don’t regret the love that we’ve begun
I see her blue eyes crying in the rain
And I know with life I must go on; still,
How I wish I could stop this aching pain
I love her and I know I always will
In that last kiss goodbye as we parted
And I held her closely within my arms
I swore my soul forever to her charms
And I will always be broken hearted
Yet though I know we will be reunited
In spirit worlds with our love requited
©JezzieG2023
Dreams Can Only Dare
Form: Italian Sonnet
You hold my heart across so many miles,
as words in carbon ink express my soul,
in longings, you will come and make me whole,
and let my eyes regard upon your smiles.
No roses can I send across these isles,
to say I love you with my heart and soul,
the feelings are so real, beyond control.
Behind the screen as common sense beguiles,
I question if you even read one word,
or catch my kiss upon a winter’s breeze?
I wonder if my love will ever care,
when trysts of thought are really quite absurd,
yet still you hold my lonely heart with ease,
and wander where my dreams can only dare
©JezzieG2010
Overgrown
Form: Cornish Sonnet 3
And there comes a time when all things must die
And somewhere nettles flower upon my grave
Or where daisies grow beneath a birch’s sigh
Those places where sea winds no longer moan
Above sobbing tears of a lonely wave
Where old leaves rustle in the overgrown
It is there my eternal bed will be
My body wrapped within an earthly shroud
But that is only where Death will find me
My bodily remains but not my soul
For that, I will be floating to your cloud
To seek such comfort so to make me whole
But there comes a time when all things must die
To seek such comfort so to make me whole
©JezzieG2023
Insanity
Form: Unnamed Sonnet 12
The protestors went mad because of it
Their beliefs say it is all very wrong
And conservatives can’t make it all fit
Not if they work at it all the day long
The men in suits want to profit from change
Whilst making the rest of the people pay
The locals say it is all out their range
Their wages spent they can’t make the outlay
Government corruption is clear to see
The lies dictating what we should all be
Oppositions don’t shout or even moan
And me, all I want is a bit of peace
Just an hour or two away from my phone
But the phone rings will it never cease?
©JezzieG2023
Butterfly Moon
Form: Limerick 3
Blue butterflies flying from the blue moon
Blown by heaven’s wind that’s gone too soon
But it isn’t unjust to rejoice in this glorious gust
That flutters within a magical rune
©JezzieG2023
Dancing Green
Form: Madrigal
On the hills of dancing green
Fields ripen beneath the sun
Summer’s glory being done
As in the distance, it’s seen
Nature’s ways that simply stun
On the hills of dancing green
Fields ripen beneath the sun
For sunshine brings its bright sheen
Golden rays second to none
The web of life finely spun
On the hills of dancing green
Fields ripen beneath the sun
Summer’s glory being done
©JezzieG2023
War
Form: Translation
Alas in these years of mean spirit,
as Mankind makes his own domain,
with office that carries much pain,
as the light fades shall darkness sit.
As fast as light is excluded here
the arms of war erupt in fire,
bloody feuds, a funeral pyre,
the blood of an innocent tear.
Heavenly harps can’t soothe this bane,
fall silent on willowy bough,
battle cries on the wind and now
their blood cascades eternal rain.
Rhyfel by Hedd Wyn
Gwae fi fy myw mewn oes mor ddreng,
A Duw ar drai ar orwel pell;
O’i ôl mae dyn, yn deyrn a gwreng,
Yn codi ei awdurdod hell.
Pan deimlodd fyned ymaith Dduw
Cyfododd gledd i ladd ei frawd;
Mae swn yr ymladd ar ein clyw,
A’i gysgod ar fythynnod tlawd.
Mae’r hen delynau genid gynt
Ynghrog ar gangau’r helyg draw,
A gwaedd y bechgyn lond y gwynt,
A’u gwaed yn gymysg efo’r glaw
©JezzieG2010
Purple Fields
Form: Limerick 1
In the fields, I heard them flutter
Where purple flowers mutter
With relaxing scent
And calming intent
In the fields, I heard them flutter
Like a magnet drawing me in
With whispered music akin
My heart felt its ease
On that late summer breeze
Like a magnet drawing me in
Those lavender fields I remember
Even in the dark days of December
In the sweet scent of essence
Evoking their floral presence
Those lavender fields I remember
©JezzieG2023
Tempest
Form: Lune
See it lying there
Shattered glass
The bowl that you threw
The grapes sliding down
The white tiles
To rest upon the floor
Outside, the tempest
Carries on
Between sky and sea
Waves crash on the shore
Yet inside
Silence now remains
With problems unsolved
Sliding down
Forgotten like grapes
©JezzieG2023
Flippant Breeze
Form: Unnamed Sonnet 11
Each night as I close my eyes into sleep
I’m thinking, and then I’m dreaming of you
Not with tears, for my dreams they cannot weep
But with joy, the essence of love so true
And I feel your arms reaching out for me
To hold me close so I begin to see
Far across the sky and over the sea
That as one we shall fly forever free
Sweet spirit of love that you have defined
Now ss my dreams twist like a flippant breeze
Return to me, and dance within my mind
In a tango beat with its pulsing tease
For darling you have thus poisoned my soul
With love; and you alone can make me whole
©JezzieG2023
Whinge and Wine
Form: Lai Nouveau
If I get the hump
I’ll whinge in a grump
Pour wine
Swig it and then slump
In a bad mood bump
It’s fine
I say like a stump
In a living thump
I shouldn’t chew this chump
Feelings in a clump
Just go
Down in the dump
Bad thoughts in a lump
And so
If I get the hump
I’ll whinge in a grump
©JezzieG2023
Vicious Circles
Form: Loose Sapphic
In this hollow darkness too much time remains
time to think, to remember and to feel pain
as lost heartaches and distress linger in
love’s retribution.
The price of my desire is lonely nights
as insensate dreams bring constant reminders
of my inadequate powers to control
sentimental tears.
Tormenting voices repeating lost chances
demoralised by the negative answers
as I surrender into the same nightmare
when hope dies again.
Vicious circles of constant thought keep turning,
comminating the psyche beyond repair
whilst my empty shell eyes continue to smile
as life continues
©JezzieG2010
Play to Heartbreak
Form: Unnamed Sonnet 10
Life is a wonder in the preschool years
With happiness and joy found everywhere
Living in a little world without fears
When life is easy without need or care
As we learn all from the play that we share
A gentle hand always comforts our tears
When a little thing is too much to bare
Each new sound is like music to the ears
Only an innocent child could conceive
The adventures found in a sleeping dream
Is anything more than sweet make-believe
Until nothing can be what it would seem
When at school a child learns one thing is true
That following dreams breaks the heart in two
©JezzieG2023
Defying Insomnia
Form: Cornish Sonnet 2
My sweet love, I have not slept these last nights
And I’m missing seeing you in my dreams
Each night after I turn out all the lights
Insomnia leaves my soul overcast
As it leaves my heart broken at the seams
But I live in hope that our love is vast
And the hard darkness of the nighttime skies
Will grant me rest as I lie on my bed
The dismal starlight that with the moon vies
For my gaze to pause upon their design
But I reflect on you and me instead
And smile defiance, you’ll always be mine
But I live in hope that our love is vast
And smile defiance, you’ll always be mine
©JezzieG2023
Day in the Leaf
Form: Hymnal Measure
In the heat of the day, I see
The leaf plays on the breeze
She’s dancing with her sisters, free
As birds sing from the trees
And they dance for their god, the sun
For in his light, they play
But soon long shadows end their fun
So sleep may end the day
©JezzieG2023
Agony of Thought
Form: Luc Bat
From she to he, a wish
A change about is swish, maybe
In words at least I see
Misunderstood but free, a dream
Thoughts rarely can redeem
When thoughts only can seem to think
As written down in ink
Such dreams begin to sink, in whys
The spoken word denies
Again he’s left in sighs; anguish
©JezzieG2023
A Poem in a Paddy
Form: Free Verse
I am not a poem
don’t believe what he says
I’m just a haphazard bunch of words
randomly plucked from his imagination
and the idiot poet has written them down
I refuse to be a poem
or any other construct
of the damn fool’s conceited art
it has to be made clear
and patently obvious
that I am not a poem
I am not the inkblood of his veins
flowing in elegance onto the page
I am not the rags of clothing
of a poet’s attire
and let me say it again
I am not a poem
not a sonnet
nor an ode
the idiot in blue jeans
holding a pen he calls his lifeblood
is without a doubt
naked and dead
©JezzieG2023
Passion’s Fire
Form: Cyhydedd Fer Sonnet
A heart that dreams without a care
shall feel this pain without compare
so great it sends the mind insane
as words of love are said in vain.
And though I beg from on my knees
no sweetheart’s kiss shall bring me ease,
as beauty scorns my heart’s delight
my dreams invade another night.
Yet as I lie to take my rest
and feel her kiss upon my breast
I hear her voice so softly speak
and sense her lips upon my cheek
so I surrender to desire
where she incites my passion’s fire
©JezzieG2010
Capricornus
Form: Canadian Sonnet
At Winter solstice the stars define
Amalthea as she nurtured a god
and crystals glimmer where the frost has trod
while the Sun god rests as the stars align.
A cornucopia, His festive feast
in readiness for His northerly climb
while the Muses of Zeus conjure a rhyme
for the Moon as she rises in the east.
The Pagans dance in the ritual ring
when ancient rites are called for here and now
the sacred blessings drawn with Baldr’s Bough
amid the chants wassailing voices sing.
In ways of old we cast the Yuletide mote
as Capricornus brings the hornéd goat
©JezzieG2010
Call of Autumn
Form: Unnamed Sonnet 9
Now, I look back with nothing to regret
My life passing like smoke from a chimney
I’ll never see youth again, a sure bet
For the autumnal years are calling me
My silver hair in the mirror I see
But I feel I have a few more years yet
To live my own way both wild and free
My heart open so I never forget
Those days of sunshine, and those days of wet
All kissed by the deep love we came to be
I know in good time I must pay my debt
To take your hand once more just you and me
But I feel I have a few more years yet
To live my own way both wild and free
©JezzieG2023
Time to Act
Form: Huitain 1
Again the corporations fight the bans
Whilst oil flows out from a damaged tanker
The seas are punished yet the fault is man’s
Nothing is done to ease Nature’s canker
Too few dare to raise their voice in rancour
Instead of destruction, we must now create
And make corporations feel the anger
For the time has come, and Nature can’t wait
©JezzieG2023
Close Encounter
Form: Free Verse
her dark brown figure
stands still
unseen eyes watching me move
she stays still
flanks unflinching
she’s up close and personal
curiosity watching curiosity
she’s in charge
slowly she dares to move
eight legs dash back undercover
©JezzieG2023
Passage of Destiny
Form: Blank Verse
Come now, my love, permit your eyes to see
Into this darker space. Here trust your sense
Of touch to guide and feel your fingertips
As they lead you in ways you want to go.
In darkness shape and form are slow to be
So pale and twisted; they cling on to death
For nothing; there is no turning back.
The path turns here and there, always forward,
This passage of destiny leads one way.
We’re all born blind without living knowledge,
Mere mortals on a journey we don’t know,
So let your inner sense awaken here
For our immortal soul speaks words of wise.
Oh, my love, understand I cannot hold
Your hand because I may fall far away
Into the depths of the darkest abyss,
And that’s no place for your beauty to shine.
Let me fall and ignore my dying scream
And trust my soul remains entwined with you.
If destiny says it’s how it should be
From the pits of darkness I’ll be reborn,
To wander alone in the night until
I find the quest of my living heartbeat
And once again you are my destiny.
©JezzieG2023
Fragments of Fate
Form: Pantoum
The slow throb of passing time
Echoes the calling of a bell
Summoning us in ancient rhyme
Like dark magic casting its spell
Echoes the calling of a bell
A poem speaks with solemn weight
Like dark magic casting its spell
Repeating fragments of our fate
A poem speaks with solemn weight
As changes bring a sense of fear
Repeating fragments of our fate
When ancient bells are drawing near
As changes bring a sense of fear
Summoning us in ancient rhyme
When ancient bells are drawing near
The slow throb of passing time
©JezzieGFarmer2023
Summer Night Reflection
Form: Heroic Stanza 4
Alone, alone on a hot summer’s night
My body heavy in its reflection
I sit alone upon my empty bed
Welcoming the silver beams of moonlight
Every night I sit here to reflect
The memories no one else shares but me
Those wonderful days and nights spent with you
I wonder if my recall is correct
Sweet memories never come by force
Entering my thoughts preparing my dreams
And I rest my head to drift into sleep
For dreams will be sweet with our love their source
©JezzieG2023
Winter Winds
Form: Curtal Sonnet
The soughing leaves cascade upon the ground
as winter winds return the cold once more
and frosty dreamings breathe across the night.
The trails of ice are left without a sound,
to sparkle like diamonds from the moon’s core
and early rays of Yuletide’s morn excite.
the birds that sing to greet the sun recall
how Spring shall come and bring a warming thaw
when life returns in colours fresh and bright.
To keep our spirits standing proud and tall
See light!
©JezzieG2010
Tiffany Lamp
Form: A chance poem
she stood looking at the lampshade
stained glass shapes forming lilac blossom
to her eyes, it was the most beautiful thing ever
and she wanted it with a deep desire and some
a want she could feel running through her body
like chalk on a blackboard
desire screeched into her thinking
every lunch hour she would come to see the lampshade
sometimes standing briefly before dashing back to work
sometimes forgetting to have lunch
she took extra hours that would increase her savings
slowly building up dollar by dollar
each month a little bit closer to the price tag
that hung beneath the glass
at last, the day came and there was enough
now at the store, the Tiffany is marked as sold
©JezzieG2023
Path of Grace
Form: Cornish Sonnet 1
In life, I tread the thorny path of pain
With my feet soft and bare year after year
Still, I step forward again and again
Through toil and hunger in the name of love
Sweet agony brings my eyes to a tear
A blessed dew drop from the heavens above
For my love for thee, for thy art my grace
My guiding star that leading me the way
Until once more I can gaze on thy face
I’ll walk through the dark clouds and the sunshine
And I’ll walk further with every day
For thy love alone that calls me as thine
In life I tread the thorny path of pain
For my love for thee, for thy art my grace
©JezzieG2023
Nature’s Deal
Form: Ivorian Sonnet 103
Tis Nature’s gift but it comes with a price
Only reap what we sow and keep things nice
As through life’s travails, we prove what we’re worth
Some place to call home and plenty to eat
By living as one with our Mother Earth
This was well-known back in the ancient days
When the old ones had no reason to steal
Taking enough for their needs, paying their ways
Making it simple to keep to the deal
A field gathered, and some meat for a meal
Maintaining our number by death and birth
But Nature is now throwing it back thrice
Because some men thought her rules could be beat
Instead, they bring about the end of days
©JezzieG2023
Golden Wisdom
Form: Diminishing Verse
Hot summer days we would play
or in the dry grass lay
they were the days, ay?
They seem kissed with gold
now we’ve got old
Is that the wisdom of sage
that comes with age
I really don’t know
I’m not so sure now
©JezzieG2023
Legacy
Form: Half Measure 2
Life is a rocky road
And it’s easy to slip
But somehow, we got through
Finding something to grip
I see my kids and think
“Am I really that old?”
The drift to years gone by
And a different world
To when I was a kid
And my grandads were here
Joining a boy in play
And I knew of no fear
Granpa smoking his pipe
I remember its smell
Each suck he took a draw
Contentment, I saw well
I remember his head
So shiny in baldness
I’d stroke it, he’d pretend
Anger kissed with kindness
In his favourite chair
He was the first to go
His pipe spilt on the floor
Making a point or so
I learned to weep my tears
Behind closed doors unseen
Because boys do not cry
Papa wiped my cheeks clean
“Show your sorrow, my boy”
He bought me a new train
So we could play inside
When outside there was rain
A Hornby set, OO
It was just for him and me
He told tales of the war
Dark times of history
His time too, running out
Some shrapnel left unfound
Before that year was done
The call of death came round
Now I look at my kids
And feel my lips that smile
My grandads’ legacy
And it has been worthwhile
©JezzieG2023
The Black Mark
Form: Translation
Y Blotyn Du by Hedd Wyn
Nid oes gennym hawl ar y ser,
Na’r lleuad hiraethus chwaith,
Na’r cwmwl o aur a ymylch
Yng nghanol y glesni maith.
Nid oes gennym hawl ar ddim byd,
Ond ar yr hen ddaear wyw;
A honno sy’n anhrefn i gyd
The Black Mark
There is no destiny in stars,
Nor in our longing for the moon,
Nor in the golden sunlit clouds
that drift amid the long blue sky.
Destiny is not in this world,
save for the ancient, faded earth,
as we have joined with lawlessness
in the midst of nature’s resplendence
©JezzieG2010
Spring Dawn
Form: Limerick
He hangs in the suspended morning air
Highlights of gold shimmer here and there
Like gems on the lawn
At the break of dawn
For a new day is laid out bare
For first soft light glints to glow
At the edge of last night’s shadow
The vibrance of spring
As sparrow begin to sing
And my heart takes up the new season’s flow
©JezzieG2023
Currents of Consciousness
Form: Free Verse
in my youth I wanted letters
to flow through my veins
and words to be my blood
allowing my expressions to roam
flowing through city parks on
late summer afternoons
high above the streets
never heard in blustery winds talking
of saddened politics and belief
snaking through the tunnels of dark thinking
to emerge into the murderous light
to feel my veins thicken with the power
of mystery lounging about like a man
dressed in a silk smoking coat
a crystal glass sparkling with whisky
in his hand
his eyes drifting into another dream
as his lips pucker unconsciously
in his unseen wonderings
©JezzieG2023
Poetic Evaluation
My Garret poetry is about evolving my work. So who better to invite to review it than you, my readers
I am sticking on the last line of the poem as I feel there needs to be a caesura between heights and we. My question is – should it be a soft pause with a comma or a more definitive pause such as a hyphen? What do you think?
Many thanks, JezzieG
Reverberation
Form: Goethe Stanza
Your smile ricocheted into my eyes
Making my lips curve into a cheeky grin
No doubting the love we are held in
On the breathless air, I hear your sighs
Desire illuminating the dark of night
The moonlight reflecting in your hair
Like a halo to guide me there
But you are all that is in my sight
For shits and giggles, we play and tease
The making love has time to wait
As we both know that is the night’s fate
And we can love at our own ease
For this is our own precious time
Where love and lust combine in fun
A time when our souls are joined as one
As into our sensual heights, we climb
©JezzieG2023
Jezzie G 