Hades Bed

       – seen as nirvana –

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Hades Bed

       – seen as nirvana –

Be of shame 
I wish to tell, 
As this being 
Known well,
Will naively
Court hell,
As he looks 
For a haven,
He’d be told
Was nirvana…

Yet would see
World in ashes,
Be a cause flee
Tho man made 
Accepts its hell,
From putrid air
To dried up well,
Shall be his fare
For a new dwell,
Found hades bed 
Did bid fare well, 
Per chance its stead
While meant nirvana,
Man turned to be but hell!     

                                                      © Jean-Jacques Fournier

                                                              
                    ode to whom suffer the oink specie
                          of a pretender tzar, Vladimir Putin
                                                    February 26, 2022           

Audio recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier
Music excerpt - Alone Together by Chet Baker
Images - Eugène Delacroix 1800’s - Public Domaine 
Header Image - Dante and Virgil in Hell by Eugène Delacroix 1822

                                       ov written in Grasse, December 31, 2009
                                                rewrote for Russia’s current ongoing
                                                       persecution of issue Ukraine people …

People

      – in last resort –

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People

      – in last resort –

It’s about space
As tho one’s life,
Be without waste 
Nor cause of strife, 
Wants but embrace
Fate’s meagre slice,
For disparaged people
Of need more than twice,
Found arrive in last resort
Assume realize its paradise,
Tho to find not be meant retort
But for people with a pair of dice,
Do for good or bad, end in last resort!


Image - Source -Wikimedia Commons …
Music - Chet Baker – excerpt, of Alone Together…
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier…

                                              © Jean-Jacques Fournier

                                                                         written in Sweetsburg
                                                                              February 18, 2022

Thought

        – of you –

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Thought

        – of you –

So many times

I wrote of thought,

And so many lines

Hence, I had sought,

The while would find

Be such views of you,

Left no room for a mind

That found a doubt be true,

Thus, forever I’ll think of you!

                                       © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Image – Source – Wikimedia Commons …

Music – Chet Baker – excerpt of, Almost Blue –

Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier

                                                                           written in Sweetsburg

                                                                              February 19, 2022

Ode to dear friend Karen L.

My Valentine

           – be forever and a day –

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My Valentine

           – be forever and a day –

Of that valentine
I ought to write,
Holds all the lines
I thought be right,
And of many times
Thru days or night,
Be of a love to find
Ye sought it might,
In every way of love
Holds yours and mine,
The many years above
To validate my valentine,
Would find its way to stay
The while fate chose in time,
And ever so beyond life's play
Thus, to validate my valentine,
Hence find be forever and a day! 

			                              Ode to Marianne,
                                                                                 forever, the love of my life…

                        © Jean-Jacques Fournier



                                                                             written in Sweetsburg
                                                                                  February 14, 2022

Image - Source Wikimedia Commons …
Music - Chet Baker – my Funny Valentine …
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier …

Zany

– be idiozyncratic –

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Zany  

      - be idiozyncratic -

Tho idiozyncratic
Be openly zany, 
Even dramatic 
You may hear,
As enthusiasts 
Of lenient ear,
Not fanatically
Troubled by fear,
Nor thus alleged
Told genuine peer,
Be times bereaved
Despite lot of many,
May have ye grieve 
Tho ergo found zany,
Be idiozyncratic on leave!

                               © Jean-Jacques Fournier

ode to special friends of the kind,
 as depicted in text and image…

                                                                 written in Sweetsburg
                                                                      February 13, 2022  

Image - Excerpt of Commedia dell’arte –Gelosi..JPG
Music – Autum in New York, by Chet Baker
Audio recital – Jean-Jacques Fournier

Odd People

          – and apathetic gods –

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Odd People

          – and apathetic gods –

Who’d ne’er nod
For man to stray,
From such gods
Of apathetic say,
Made find accept 
To live their way,
While ye bear yet 
The nonexistence,
Of posit odd people…

‘Tis life in darkness
That soul must face,
And made to endure
That be inane place,
Holds be odd people 
In an infinite brace, 
Fixed as indulgence
Be from apathetic gods! 

                                      Ode to dear friend Thomas Lavin …

                   © Jean-Jacques Fournier

ov written in Vence,Fr. 2002.02.25, 
Final version in Sweetsburg, Que. Can. February 6, 2022  

Imagery - Private & Public, Includes Henri Gustave Jossot … 
Music - Excerpt of Frederic Chopin’s Sunset, 
              Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no.1 …
Audio -	 Récital - Jean-Jacques Fournier …

Alive at Stake

          – in futile haste –

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Alive at Stake

 – in futile haste –

It ought count
Tho ye be late,
By the amount
We deliberate,
Given account
In futile haste,
Of tantamount
To a gale waste,
And life be cast
As to expediate,
The useless sass 
Need find erase,
Fixes mind blur 
Till ye learn way,
Set plan deferred  
Wants obviate play,
The while alive at stake
Realizes ne’er too late,
To preclude futile haste!


                                               © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Imagery - Wikimedia Commons ...
Music – excerpt of Bach - Toccata & Fugue
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier ...

				                  written in Sweetsburg
					              January 14, 2022
					        edited February 1, 2022