Where

      – have they gone –

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Where

       – have they gone –

Be the roaming people 
Fixated thus to wander,
In hardy state or feeble
As together or asunder,
Persist for addicts able
Stalwart fail to wonder,
Might be too far along
Would easily meander,
Where they have gone
For all ye to remember, 
Ergo had chose to walk
For queries want tender,
Didst drown in idle talk,
Alas where they have gone!


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written in Sweetsburg
P of Québec, Canada
March 29, 2024


Image – Wikimedia Commons...
Music – Excerpt of Instrumental Chillout Music...
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier...

A Trick

          – or a lie –

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A Trick

          – or a lie –

The menacing sigh
Of playing sly tricks,
With thy fading eyes 
Be searching for kicks,
Finds mouth bone dry
From anxiety fathomed,
Reach hence far as to die
The while unaccustomed,
To beg gods whom ask why
Merits thy said fair outcome,
Save fundamentals which bide
Before whiling away at the run
Tho pie-eyed suggests he so hide
Should ye realize, be a trick or a lie!

                        @ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

written in Sweetsburg
P of Québec, Canada
March 29, 2024


Image – Wikimedia Commons...
Music – Excerpt of Crying Alone, 
                unknown piano composition...
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier...

That Place

       – held singular –

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      – held singular –

Be not any
Set to claim,
Aim ye there
Nor so blame,
Tis that place,
Held singular
Imaging space,
Thru minds eye	
Hence but face,
May thus imply 
With fixed keel,
Might by the bye
Find ye learn feel, 
Where be meaning 
That holds believe, 
There is that place
Save realize ye drive,
Abet singular achieve
Alas while being alive!   

                         © Jean-Jacques Fournier    

                      written in Sweetsburg
                          March 26, 2024


Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music – Excerpt of Stan Getz & Chet Baker 1983
Audio - Recital - by Jean-Jacques Fournier

      – held singular –

Sister

      – on a Ste Rose Day –

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Sister

    – on a Ste Rose Day –

Tis a summer day
At a lakeside spill,
On the village way
Need not of a quill,
To so chart ye way 
On a lake tranquil,                      
Bids ye restful stay
For tis abodes will,
Ye enjoy suns will
On a Ste Rose Day...

One can but recall
Once errand spill,
Child survives fall
Rolling down hill,
Had felt appalled,
At ye tumbled still
In three-wheel fall,
Not a cycling thrill...

Sis on tricycle axle
Knew not of a spill,
By paddling at full
For tricycle thrills, 
Thus nearing home,
With no fear of fall 
Till tumbled down,
With errand be all...

Of head over heels
From ye axel stoop,
Dear sister did feel,
A time out of hand 
On deranged wheels,
As we tumbled round
While on Ste Rose hill,
Alas found upside down
Did dear sister and I spill,
In once upon a time thrill!

     ode to the memory of my sister, Pierrette...

Poetic humour attempt, based on growing children’s episodic adventures and surviving damaging ignorance. Image symbolic of humans in flight, not necessarily from a flying tricycle...

               © Jean-Jacques Fournier                              
                           
            written in Sweetsburg, 
                 March 19, 2024		

Poetry in Brief – thin skin of time –

This is to announce the publication of my 20th book of poems

Another pocket book or ebook of short poems

The Moment

      – ye’d want recall –

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The Moment

– ye’d want recall –

Ne’er be forever 
Had the moment,
One endeavours
Tho in an instant,
Ye'd want recall 
The prolong time,
Effort we extend
Albeit to beckon,        
An end to clocks
Lest ye gods tend,
Save merit mock
Stead find amend,
The while diurnal
A perpetual intend,
Help set to normal
Devoid of thought,
Fate opts as clever
Nay ye be fraught,
For fails remember
Afore life has spent,
One day or another
Fixates you aim see,
Whispers so forever 
In set persistent way,
As yet the moment be!

         Ode to sister, Pierrette...
                                       
                © Jean-Jacques Fournier


written in Sweetsburg
March 14, 2023
					
Music - excerpt of What a Difference a Day Made 
                                    by Loco Latin Instrumental
Imaging - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

      – ye’d want recall –

The While

              – it lasts –

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The While

              – it lasts –

Tis the while
Fate wills it last,
And tempts wile
Hence to go past,
A life that reviles
Beyond reproach, 
Finds yet beguile  
Beneath its worth,
Of that fatal smile
Tho borders dearth,
Ne’er so like child
Discovering mirth,
Aims not conspire
To misguided play 
Did indulge satire,
As to pave ye way
Thus avoids angst,
Wouldst fix a past
Ought give thanks,
The while, it lasts! 

                Ode to naïve man-made faith...

                                © Jean-Jacques Fournier 


			                            written in Sweetsburg
				                    March 12, 2024

Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Excerpt from Best of Maurice Ravel
Audio - Récital - by Jean-Jacques Fournier

A Visitor

        –  now and then –

A Visitor

        –  now and then –

A visitor
Visiting life,
Be an advent
You hold tight,
For soon spent
Wrong or right,
Clines naïve bent
That tempts plight,
But to live full extent
In a visit now and then 
Best so done afore descent,
And in time be to know when
Fate fixes you as a fallen agent,
Tho visiting life but now and then
Best to do so while you’re still alive,
Holds nye needn’t dig to wonder when
Ye’d have second thoughts as to survive,
Thus a visitor in life, hence now and then! 

Ode to our ghost 
And you too,
Who crave
From birth,
To grave
For worth, 
Want save 
Said earth,
Tho as fate
Short lived,
Be the bate
Ye gods give,
In life’s dearth!
	 a revisit of hope...?

      © Jean-Jacques Fournier    


ov. Written in Sweetsburg, PQ, Ca. 
July 21, 2022
edit March 6, 2024

Commotion

            – tells of being alive –

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Commotion

            – tells of being alive –

Born want be forever
As in vision ageless,
For reason thus ever
Ye life runs timeless,
In matters endeavored
A disturbance aimless,
Tempts fate otherwise
Emphasizes pointless,
Yet wills compromise,
In a place of profusion
Discourages to connive
Amid foisted confusion
Arranged shall survive,
An emotive conclusion
Endures delay to arrive,
With state of endurance
Finds tell of being alive,
Seek avoid fixed stance
Thus free of commotion,
Of ye gods chosen dance!

© Jean-Jacques Fournier

Imagery - Images Wikipedia Commons...
Music - Excerpt from FDT - FEEL THAT -
Audio – recorded recital - by Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg
February 28, 2024

Confusion Per Se

            –  a matter of opinion –

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Confusion Per Se

–  a matter of opinion –

Be per se matters
Of often opinion,
As today rappers
In set confusion,
For but attackers
Of older creation,
Deemed crackers
In past generation,
Whom yet survive
The contradictions,
Of remaining alive
In chaos dimention, 
Tho have contrived
To ignore hesitation,
Fix we live illusions
By matter of opinion,
In a confusion per se!

      	            © Jean-Jacques Fournier

  ode to thinkers, said rappers,
    of a so-called confused generation...


         written in Sweetsburg
            February 22, 2024


Imagery – Wikimedia Commons
Music - Excerpt from Almost Blue, by Chet Baker
Audio - Recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier

            –  a matter of opinion