– be notions of life –
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Blunder, Bar and Bond
– be notions of life -Blunder
Blunder
Plagued we are
By yet another,
Held gone too far
Be trying blunder,
Tho per chance par
There ne’er be other!
Bar By raising the bar To reset your goal, You exceed by far A weakening hold That could so mar, A bid to live whole!
Bond Incline assume The gods so tend, Bonds we groom May bear a friend, With they in whom Affection finds send, A life ye want to bloom!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Written in Sweetsburg, May 26, 2021
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Poetry on a canapé 
Your three thoughts – Blunder, Bar and Bond – express a profound message. We may blunder our way through life and yet have the courage to raise the bar, because we are friends. Friends that sustain our hopes for a better tomorrow. I am grateful for your friendship, Jean-Jacques.
Well said, Rebecca! It’s easier to raise the bar with the help of our friends.
You have helped me raise the bar, Liz!!! Many thanks!
I concur, Liz, for without that generosity, we imperfect humans, would find life a very lonesome existence!
You my friend, a term I do not use lightly, as this word is emblematic for me, having written in 2002 my most published poem, titled Friend – a singular entitlement – first chosen internationally and awarded editor’s choice. But more important, is the significance of being called friend as it is intended, in the true sense of the word. Hense by you and the very few others, whom I’ve come to know, also found cause or purpose to consider me so, as I you and they in return for whatever worthy reason fate found serendipity did apply. Thus ever thankful I shall be!
Beautiful. The bond sustains me. Grateful for our friendship.
Thank you my friend, for we go back a long way as such, though sadly not having met in person when I too lived in California, but still hoping to do so , if the gods please Marianne and I should revisit found memories of the past. You are never from that thought!