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Patience

– of an ancient –

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Patience

       – of an ancient –

Tho man tires of patience

As a half measure stance,

At times but its penchant

He endures thru irritants,

Afore thoughts go askance

Fits meander of an ancient,

Save as stead offers chance

Ancient adjoin forbearance,

Among gods of circumstance

A virtue of hidden dominance,

Poised in sounds of plainchants

Antithesis of an ancient patience!

              

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

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written in Sweetsburg

October 9, 2026

Imagery Wikimedia Common

Music – excerpt of Jazz Mood – BMG channel

Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier

Reaching About

– the while in doubt –

Reaching About

             – the while in doubt –

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© Jean-Jacques Fournier

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written in Sweetsburg, PQ Canada

August 29, 2026

Edited September 10, 2026

Reaching Out

– to hold life back –

Reaching Out

– to hold life back –

Ye may reach out

To hold life back,

As without doubt

It moves too fast,

If you look about

In relation to past,

Mayve led to flout

Had you noted ask,

A change of speed

To fit probing fact,

Find ignoring heed

As to hold life back,

Be no need to plead

Its recall about past, 

When habituate tout

Had one feel aghast,

Did fail reaching out

Was to hold life back…

…

If thy sense include  

Despite anx to rush,  

May gullably elude

Be threat of a crush,

That ye can’t forget 

Want pursue savour,

Save issues of regret 

For not reaching out,

That while we’d met

Felt to hold life back!

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

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Written in Sweetsburg PQ Ca.

September 9, 2026

Edit to publish September 9, 2026

Imagery – Wikimedia Commons

Reflections

– in an aging mind –

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Reflections

– in an aging mind –

I can see clearly

The laughter

In her mind,

Oft times

Felt abide,

An anguish

Deep inside,

Hiding a wish

Tho held back,

In lover’s haste

Ne’er be a lack,

Of fated embrace

Fixed as its stead,

To losing set place…

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The while unknown

As sheep said black,

In a world untried,

Set to make tracks

He’d soon discern

Lifes perilous facts,

Bids not fit concern

For uneasy to enact…

…

When he awakens

To look back

On years ago,

The lines of colour

Have so blurred, 

He barely sees

The faded image,

For what he’d lived,

Be but reflections

Left in an aging mind,

Time now finds obscure! 

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ode to mothers,

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© Jean-Jacques Fournier

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written in Sweetsburg

ov December 16, 2010

edit for publication  September 16, 2026

Destiny

 – has a choice –

Destiny

– has a choice –

Liked it or not

Destiny paused,

For held thought

Of fitting caused,

Fits aging fraught

By revoked losses,

Find related ablaut,

Saved faux sources

Sits amide ye tralala,

Traces of life course,

Alleged be gods exalt

Given triviality voiced,

Shant admit a bias result

As if destiny has a choice!

             © Jean-Jacques Fournier

 

written in Sweetsburg PQ, Ca.

 BD September 17, 2026

A Place

       – to soon be –

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A Place

       – to soon be –

There is a place

We will soon see,

Cannot be erased

As truly fixed be,

By gods in place

Said gurus of red,

Whom rule space

Feeding its stead,

Fear not to deface

Mans ruins in red,

Be a death to face

Destined we read,

For we’ve a place

Ever so to soon be!

              © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Poem inspired by Chiharu Shiota’s The Soul Trembles

written in Sweetsburg

September 15, 2026

Imagery – from the Soul Trembles by Chiharu Shiota

Music – excerpt of Jazz Mood – BMG channel ?

Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier

A Story

         – of love –

A Story

        – of love –

Mans aspirations

Held time to time,

Pleads inspiration

Be need of reality

A love story finds

In livable validity,

Assumes ere after

Images an eternity,

Ne’er so to faulter

As gods’ actuality,

Of the while alive

Despite a tapestry,

Arrives in surprise

In fates phantasies,

Be assured survive

Sets a story of love!

                © Jean-Jacques Fournier

       Ode to an everlasting love,

               and the duration of its phantasy …

written in Sweetsburg

September 12, 2026

Imagery – Wikimedia Commons

The Memory

                – of a love affair –

The Memory

                – of a love affair –

Twas a time ago

That a love affair,

Meant yet to know

Could be life shared,

Thence hesitant show

Had feeling that cared,

That time ago held ours

Wouldst then fixate such,

Afore gone aptly past time

Made bold with gentle touch,

Was of the memory you’d find

The while be pact of a love affair!

                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Imagery – Wikimedia Commons

written in Sweetsburg PQ Ca.

September 11, 2026

Mirror, Mirror

                            – on the wall –

                   – on the wall –

Mirror, mirror

On the wall

Hard to show

My face at all,

You make it seem

Like it was mauled …

Mirror, nearer

Your torment,

Can have me cry

And looking bent,

Instead of shy                                                                     

Of seeming spry

As it has meant…

Mirror, closer

You discuss,

A weathered face

Shows craggy crust, 

Made hopeless case,

Ne’er as it must…

Mirror, mirror

Now violator

In melancholy state,

Alas ye so deface

A shan’t be salved

Thru your efface,

A torturous onguent

For a losing case,

Mete by a malfeasant

As held mirror on the wall!

                  

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

 written in Grasse Fr

 March 9, 2013

Edited September 5, 2026

Inhuman

          – ain’t necessarily so –

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Inhuman

          – ain’t necessarily so –

As ye shun circumstance 
Had interpreted ill shown,
To a fit considered stance
A bit distorted as known, 
For a compunctioned anx
Found it suggest inhuman,
Tho it ain’t necessarily so
To find be far from human,
One to see image thru hand,
Has blind man stroke tableau
That tell his heart understands,
What it bore ain’t necessarily so     
Yet alas would alter fit as a human!

            ©️ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

                      written in Sweetsburg
                           August 16, 2026

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 Music – Excerpt of TBA
 Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier