– of traces unclear –
Desperate Man
– of traces unclear –
Desperate man Arrives in fear, Looking at life Traces unclear, To face despite He cannot hear, Thus, he writes Hoping it bears, Some hint of sight Marks he’d be there!
ode to coherence of clarity…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery – Wikimedia Commons
Music - Nardis by Chet Baker
Audio -Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 28, 2022
– man can nay tell –
Merited Spell
- man can nay tell -
Man can nay tell
If life disregards,
Said merited spell
Save benign bard
Bids serene dwell
Despite ye regard,
That risk may well
Be placidly marred,
By set endured hell
Of invasive sounds,
Affirm be the knell
If ye maker ignores,
Beyond human intel
Ye having long past,
Find point of return
Will fix obtain cast,
Should merited spell
Ne’er be meant to last,
Tho a man can nay tell!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music – excerpt by Chet Baker, of Alone Together
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 27, 2022
– seeks a longer while –
A Wandering Man
– seeks a longer while –
He wanders about For trenchant life, But without doubt Save eonian strife, Fixes a sure bout As afore afterlife, Be willing to wait A progeny clever, Till ye find place Visualizes forever, That allows placate For no reason ever, This wandering man Seeks a longer while, Thus, so to find whole With but copious guile Might delay growing old!
ode to forever young of spirit…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Excerpt of Wandering by Steve Combs
Audio recital – by Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg March 20, 2022
– close to hereafter –
– close to hereafter –
Tho ye be willing
To bear whatever,
Without doubting
Be gods endeavour,
Thus, but conciliate
Ye fate ain’t forever,
So relieved of debates
It reaches far of tether,
As life’s concealed date
Thence holds hardly ever,
You’d be close to hereafter!
Ode to Edgar Allan Poe,
master of morbidity…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Excerpt of The Violin Concertos, by J.S. Bach
Audio recital – by Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 12, 2022
– willing to wait –
A Blind Mind
– willing to wait –
A fellowman’s fate Be his blind mind, Now in haste state To end of the line, Has reason be late Or flee his assign, Yet willing to wait For shade to bind, Invoke find abate On pretext of time, May assure a place Best end of the line, As fellowman’s take While willing to wait, Lives with a blind mind!
Alas youth of long days, be be soon short elder nights… © Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery - Venus discovers young man robbed of his youth,
Unknown artist Naples in the mid 1600s.
Music - Excerpt of Johann Sebastian’s Adagio
Audio recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 12, 2022
– to what’s his name –
Whatever Happened
- to what’s his name -
Tells of a social game, In whatever happened Be to what’s his name, Or view face of whom As recall slowly came, Via beacon so illumed For its curiosity’s aim, That might’ve implied See to be but so and so, May hold a worthy ply Save ‘tis another trope Put to what’s his name!
Ode to the face of reality… © Jean-Jacques Fournier Imagery - personal & Wikimedia Commons Music – excerpt of Debussy, Chopin, Satie Audio – Recital, Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
March 3, 2022
– life seems to last –
– life seems to last –
The journey starts And seems to last, But a minute And a half, As I remember Ponder life past, I try to ignore, A September last Be echoes of lore…
As life finds wilt Our time by half I’ve none to waste, So, pardon my rancour At they who do crowd, Or find be an anchor In my fleeting race, For with so little time Be cause to make haste…
I want not feel dread For predestined brevity, Or fall’s early spread Lying neath memories, That hint of soon rest From life seems to last, But a minute and a half!
Ode to the eternal, Louise Fleischmann © Jean-Jacques Fournier Images - JJF Timepiece & Wikimedia Commons Music - excerpt - Frederic Chopin, Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no. 1 Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg February 28, 2022
Poetry on a Canapé 