Looking

           – at image callow –

Looking

        – at image callow –

Holds with time 
We’d look back, 
At images callow
Too soon outlines,
Journey to follow 
Age wouldst find,
Ye hoped mellow
Composed in lines, 
That shan’t forget
Life as man mined,
Fates’ ensuing place 
Hence end of the line, 
Fixed carved on a face
Bound predictably to life! 

                                  © Jean-Jacques Fournier 

                written in Sweetsburg
                    August 29, 2022
						

Imagery - National Galleries of Scotland

Looking

           – thru callow eyes –

Looking

           – thru callow eyes –

Bears an auspicious find
As child that learns wise, 
In a world of need rewind
Looking thru callow eyes,
Says can’t be living blind
For aware survival belies,
The risk of a waning mind
Beyond want to sympathise, 
In a state of diminishing time!


                             © Jean-Jacques Fournier 

                                                     written in Sweetsburg
					                August 25, 2022
					


Imagery - National Galleries of Scotland

Waiting

– for death –

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Waiting

– for death –

In no hurry
Ye can wait,
Its eventual
Find be late,
To inevitable 
Trepidation,
Be temporal
Disassemble,   
No omission
For ye being,
In condition
Thus ensues,
Its imposing
Found abuse,
To fit closing
Save ye know,
Be no waiting
Ye gods bestow,
To alter stating
Time fix for death!

	  Thus so we scribble, to face man’s reality…

	                © Jean-Jacques Fournier
      
                                                written in Sweetsburg	
                                                     August 21, 2022

Music - Excerpt of Alone Together by Chet Baker
Imagery - Michelangelo - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean -Jacques Fournier

I Awake

– should fate so will –

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I Awake

– should fate so will –

That I awake
Another day,
To live a fate
With little say,
Save to amend
My errant way,
Before the end
Thus to renew,
As to contend
Said life anew,
The while fend
As destine wills,
But a scant stay…

Time tallies still
Tho be few days,
For failing gods
Now dated skills,
Tend fall behind
Too aged to fulfil,
In garbled minds 
Verge on placate, 
Yet decreed still
Our waning state,
Hence so fate's will!

                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier

 written in Sweetsburg
ov February 19, 2017
edit published, August 15, 2022

Music - Ethereal Thoughts, by Victor Wayne
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

A Probing

         – held thought –

Old man sleeping – David Rijckaert 1612

A Probing

– held thought –

A probing
Held thought, 
That questions 
Ones own,
Be but of worth
Should it reflect,
That which 
Ye have sewn!

                         © Jean-Jacques Fournier

				            written in Sweetsburg
                                                 August 9, 2022	
			 	 	    
Imagery – Wikimedia Commons	

Finding Shadows

         – in enduring place –

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– in enduring place –

Oughtn’t I race
To held avers,
Finding shadows
Of a ready favour,
In enduring place
Where gratify be,
Begs shan’t erase 
Alacrity’s glee,
Non inimical state
Yet has one flee,  
As to rid of gate
And needless plea, 
Of insensible fate
Fails docile agree,
In shades of kind
See alleges replete, 
To feed a sane mind…

Hence on this day
The sun is strong,
I’ll find the way
To will one gone,
Ye may perceive    
Be shadows found,
That gods conceive
There I am bound,
With austere mind 
Want a sound bond,
Ill-fated so resigned!

                                      ode to lost brothers…

                © Jean-Jacques Fournier

	                                         written in Sweetsburg 
                                                      August 6, 2022   
                                                                                             
                                      1st written in Montréal July 20, 2002                                                                                                                                      

Music - Blue Shadow in the Street, by Dave Brubeck
Photos - pictures Wikimedia commons
Audio -	 Jean-Jacques Fournier		

Butterflies

– fluttering bye –

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Butterflies

– fluttering bye –

A butterfly
Searching
Blossoms,
Pursuing 
The mote
To provide,
Held florae
Need of alive 
Ye find dote,
On their array
Hence to adorn
Tho its short stay,
Be of iffy longevity 
Not butterfly’s say,  
Dancing in brevity…
 
Pushed by currents
He floats consciously   
On breezes apparent,
While ever so mindful
Found be lepidoptera, 
With beauty’s warrant 
Would remain pleasing, 
Thru a short summer fly 
Has butterflies trapezing,
All the while fluttering bye!

    Ode to butterflies, that they maybe forever…


                © Jean-Jacques Fournier
	                                                        written in Sweetsburg
                                           	                     August 2, 2022

Music - Endless Beauty, Pixabay							
Photography - Marianne Dessis
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier