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Reaching About

– the while in doubt –

Reaching About

             – the while in doubt –

                       

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg, PQ Canada

August 29, 2026

Edited September 10, 2026

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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

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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…

…

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,

…

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

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written in Sweetsburg

ov December 16, 2010

edit for publication  September 16, 2026

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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






			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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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






			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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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





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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






			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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Mirror, Mirror 

	


		

		

                            – on the wall –










Mirror, Mirror 





                   – 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






			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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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
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Of Morrows

	


		

		






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Of Morrows





           – then and now –





Ne’er need to wonder
What the morrows be,
Twas before and after
Could stay facile free, 
For gods that meander
If thy reach a morrow,
Afore fits end wander
Hence a then and now 
Despite curios borrow,
Inadvertent tell us how
Held gods find plunder,
From you and from me
Attain hereafter wonder 
As place fits morrow be,
Then now or yet maybe!

            ©️ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

                      written in Sweetsburg
                           August 16, 2026
     	           Edit August 17, 2026

 Image - Wikimedia Commons                         
 Music – Excerpt of TBA
 Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier