– man’s legacy –
‘Tis long said of man
Wants live in peace,
Yet not so easily can
For from evil feasts,
Be of warning plan
As legacy of beasts,
Until he finds to shun
Warring man’s legacy!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg May 20, 2023
– for anxious mind –
– for anxious mind –
Be no space
Worldwide,
Nor a place
Fails one cry,
Yet will hide
Tho a brother,
Till I’ve died...
Be no other
Save a sister,
Once forever
Yet now gone,
To wherever
She was bound,
Beg ‘tis better
Than end found,
Years the later
When her time,
For lifeless mask...
Need not bide,
A fix too fast
In set disguise,
Tho elusive be
The gods oblige,
Thus, forget flee
Ye must decide,
With dying mind
Set knit façade,
To leave behind
Hence not to hide,
Neath another mask!
ode to my dear sister Pierrette, 1932 to 2023
© Jean-Jacques Fournier written in Sweetsburg May 18, 2023 Images - Wikimedia Commons Music - Frightening Dreams by Zitron Sound Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– a place to hide –
– a place to hide –
You now find Need to hide, Where time Be disguise, As the mask Will fix wise, Ye fit façade Meant hold Abide alive, Amply bold To vent side, If weary soul Be near bent, Seeks be told Of the advent, We suffer turn In interval bide, To elude hell burn All the while alive, With factor concern The mask, a place to hide! © Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg November 20, 2010 rewrote May 12, 2023 Imagery - Wikimedia Commons Music - excerpt of Chet Baker’s My Mix at 4:30 min. Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– if trees could talk –
– if trees could talk –
If trees could walk
To reach a place,
Thus, so to talk
Of choice-less state
And find confer
Their imposed fate,
Of peril to suffer
The logger’s chop,
Despite despair
Do beg they stop,
To slaughter trees
That clean the air,
And give of life
Posed to man’s fare,
Tho seems to blur
The eyes that stare,
At words unheard
As would compare,
To abut carved rocks
From the drawn woes,
Of ancient petroglyphs
Fixed images of time ago,
Be language yet unspoken
The while fixed in symbols so!
@ Jean-Jacques Fournier
Written in Montecatini, Italia May 6, 2023 Music - Trees – Roa – for content creators... Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier Images – by Marianne Dessis
– be the where l sit –
The Bench
– be the where l sit –
I’ve walked the mile
Yet have not moved,
Beyond fixated smile
Be where the bench,
Finds set my mood
To be the while l pit,
Wouldst so thus fool
No matter that it fit,
The distant kilometres
One takes to save remit,
A semblance of theatre
Thus, so my soul will be,
On the bench, the where l sit!
@ Jean-Jacques Fournier
Written in Montecatini, Italia @ Jean-Jacques Fournier May 10, 2023
– de laisser faire –
Photo couverture par Marianne D.
Le Choix
– de laisser faire –
Et si l’enfer Était plus loin, Ou à l’envers Serait-il au moins, Plus facile De s’y rendre, En passant par la ville Que d’y descendre, Par la campagne Naturellement ensemble, Avec un bon champagne Que faut-il attendre, D’être rendu au feu Ou hélas, sortir des cendres !
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
écrit à Sweetsburg
April 10, 2023
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music – excerpt of, Hook Sounds, Royalty Free Jazz
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
– to let it be –
Cover photo by Marianne D.
The Choice
– to let it be –
What if hell
Was amply far,
Or upside-down
Hence not to mar,
That ye be found
Wandering nearby,
Passing thru towns
Ne’er to go astray,
Despite via the city
Ere any which way,
Be naturally together
With a fine champagne,
To be thus our endeavour
The while reaching the fire,
Or alas, be exiting the ashes?
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
April 10, 2023
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music – excerpt of, Hook Sounds, Royalty Free Jazz
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
– in one’s aging life race –
A Boundlessness
– in one’s aging life race –
There shall be a day
In our stead life race,
That you find a way
In then slowing pace,
Be a boundlessness
Set in ageing echoes,
For a mind’s travel
Tho thru blurry past,
Without it unravels
Afore fades too fast,
Resorting to babble
As fate plans repass,
Tho be but to dabble
Fixed a bearable pass,
Was yet as found able
For its negligible place,
Did not start at the end
In one’s aging life race!
©️ Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
April 8, 2023
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Kiss of Spain, by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– that there’s a link –
– that there’s a link –
Will come a time
For aging life,
Gods do decline
Find defer strife,
Tho we near blind
Musing afterlife,
A man’s assign
No minor swipe,
In his lifetime
If wise he’s not,
While so aligned
He may be fraught,
By a wizened state
That alters naught,
Thus, to find room
Far from the end,
A state of gloom
Yet sets amend,
To make ye think
Of time too soon,
That there’s a link
Where we end up,
On second thought
Holds your last sup,
Ought make ye think!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Written in Sweetsburg
March 29, 2023
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Sommarpsalm (String Quartet Version)
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– ought try again –
On Second Thought
– ought try again –
It might be seen
As ne’er enough,
For life has been
More than abrupt,
From lively scene
A creative disrupt,
Yet to stall its end
We’ve to interrupt,
This forever dream
Not too easily forgot,
Fixes reality it seems
To spite self-serving plot,
When deemed be rather thin
You’d lean on second thought,
Tho ye gods allude ‘tis but a whim
One wouldst entreat ought try again,
Thus, to find shed fate’s risk of grim!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 27, 2023
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons…
Music - excerpt of Leaving, by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier…
Poetry on a Canapé 