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Jez Farmer
Member since January 15, 2019
Member for 7 years, 4 months
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Stag Night
The nights are long, and the days are short now
While winter winds echo across the land
Tonight the king will return as is planned
With a frosty touch on a silent bough
There by the fire I chant the sacred words
Amid inky sigils and corvine birds
And the gods of Sun return to my heart
If winter should bring yet more ice and snow
In their blessed warmth and love I will stand
A warrior touched by the ancient hand
To see their magic in the arcane glow
That carries the soul as the long nights drag
The Sun’s return the sweetest counterpart
On this path of mine, the path of the stag
© JG Farmer 2018
Jez Farmer’s timeline
- January 2024
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15 MonAnniversary
5 years of membership
- January 2020
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15 WedAnniversary
One year of membership
- February 2019
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12 TueReceived a critique
on Stag Night from @weirdelf
"and I have been through the same process myself. I am not pro-structure or pro-freeform I a pro poetry- whatever works. I've written haiku, sonnet, villanelle (they're a bugger) with and without censorship (I fucking lo…" - January 2019
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20 Sun
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20 SunReceived a critique
on Stag Night from @weirdelf
"rather than me critting it. The only spiritual things I ever do are acknowledge the Solstices and Equinoxes, and the path of the the stag is clear. This is the bit that will sound rude but I promise I am not meaning to…" -
17 ThuCritiqued
"CONSOLATION" by @scribbler
"Hi As I have no real experience of being a critic I am not going to even try and do a critique. However, I do know when I like a poem and I like this one as it reads so well and appeals to me as I am one of those old me…" -
17 ThuFirst critique offered
on "CONSOLATION" by @scribbler
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17 Thu
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16 WedReceived a critique
on Civet Cat from @scribbler
"I suck at all kinds of sonnets. Thus I feel unqualified to offer suggestions. But I did enjoy the read.....BTW if you have any questions about the site just ask anybody including me. If I don't know the answer I'll stee…" -
16 WedReceived a critique
on Civet Cat from @Roscoe Lane
"A heartfelt welcome to Neopoet, I liked this poem a lot, though I admit it took me two or three readings to catch the rhyme and pace. I hope you enjoy your time with us, and I look forward to many more poems. Regards Ro…" -
15 TueFirst publication
Civet Cat
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15 Tue
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15 TueJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I am a freelance writer and poet and started writing after raising my two boys as a way of discovering just who Jez is. That is still very much an on-going project but the journey so far has introduced me to many wonderful friends and fellow writers through an ever growing love of poetry.
I am a neo-formalist poet preferring to write in meter and form than free verse but I am beginning to learn to relax and let the feel and sound of words take over rather than be dictated to by rigid rules and structure. However, I will still argue that a sonnet without consistent meter ain’t a sonnet and Lewis Turco’s Book of Form is never far from me.
Location: Wiltshire, UK
Favorite Poets
PB Shelley
Lord Byron
John Keats
Pablo Neruda
and many
many more
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