– for a time –
Patient
– for a time-
Holds be innate
As to Inventive,
If not too late
Having lived,
Fit for a mind
Ye gods give,
Thus to find
A patient side,
Hence of a kind
Want not hide,
Or fixate bind
To aver patient,
Meant of a mind
For future advent,
Would set redefine
As patient for a time!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
October 9, 2026
Imagery – Wikimedia Commons
Music – excerpt of Jazz Mood – BMG channel
– is to limit –
– is to limit –
Having gone so far
In manner obturate,
That mind shant bar
Fates way to moderate,
Be whole of five words
Oscar Wilde fits suggest,
Held, to define is to limit
Worthy as ne’er to forget,
Find tis human probability
Save be definitions of kind,
Wouldst tell of its character
The while delineating’s bind,
A yet humain considerability
As twould, define – is to limit!
Ode to Oscar Wilde
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
The line – to define is to limit – Originates from Oscar
Wilde – 1890 masterpiece The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Written in Sweetsburg
October 18, 2026
Imagery – Wikimedia Commons
Music – Sergei Racmaninoff
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
Patience
– of an ancient –
Listen to audio
Patience
– of an ancient –
Patience of now ancient
Was then known as old,
For age had you facient
Hints downside of bold,
As man tires of tolerant
Or half measure stance,
At times but a penchant
Endure he thru irritants,
Afore thought go askance
Fit meander of an ancient,
Save as stead offers chance
Adjoin ancient forbearance,
Among gods of circumstance
Poised in sound of plainchant,
Antithesis of ancients patience
A benefit of cryptic dominance!
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© Jean-Jacques Fournier…
written in Sweetsburg
October 5, 2026
Edited October 14, 2026
Imagery Wikimedia Common
Music – excerpt of Jazz Mood – BMG channel
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
– 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
– 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
Imagery – Wikimedia Commons
Edit to publish September 9, 2026
– in an aging mind –
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
– 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
– to soon be –
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
– 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
– 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
