– be the way home –
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This Road
– be the way home –
I’ve wandered past
Where wise gave way,
Perchance too fast
For image to stay,
Be of home alas
Found not at bay...
For held memory
Of insistent places,
Would thus convey
As a fixed oasis,
Be the right way
Afore life soon passes,
You’ll find this road
Be the way home!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Ode to my Roma,
past present and timeless,
as one’s transcendent home,
thus, be Italia...!
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Round Midnight, by Chet Baker
Audio recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
December 9, 2022
Poetry on a canapé 
Too fast for the image to stay… another well-stated reminder to slow down and be with what is.
A reflection on living that may suggest more between the lines than the words plainly offers.