– 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 …
Poetry on a canapé 
Yes, be of shame!
Thank you, Paulette!
I really enjoyed your recital of this poem.
Thank you, Roberta, for taking the time to say so and the pleasure of your interest. That being the substance which feeds poetry’s soul, and keeps we scribblers alive.
You reminded me of my favourite quote by Sir Walter Scott (Ivanhoe) “He that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears.”
A little out of my time and writing ability, but I thank you for the compliment, Rebecca.