Makes Ye Think

– that there’s a link –

Photo by Akshar Dave, I owe you a coffee…

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Makes Ye Think

         – that there’s a link –

Will come a time 
For aging life,
Gods do decline
Find defer strife,
Tho we near blind
Musing afterlife,
A man’s assign
No minor swipe,
In his lifetime
If wise he’s not,
While so aligned
He may be fraught, 
By a wizened state 
That alters naught,
Thus, to find room 
Far from the end,
A state of gloom
Yet sets amend,
To make ye think 
Of time too soon, 
That there’s a link 
Where we end up,
On second thought
Holds your last sup,
Ought make ye think!


                © Jean-Jacques Fournier 


         Written in Sweetsburg 
          March 29, 2023

Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Sommarpsalm (String Quartet Version) 
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

On Second Thought

         – ought try again –

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On Second Thought

– ought try again –

It might be seen
As ne’er enough,
For life has been 
More than abrupt,
From lively scene
A creative disrupt,
Yet to stall its end
We’ve to interrupt,
This forever dream
Not too easily forgot,
Fixes reality it seems
To spite self-serving plot,
When deemed be rather thin
You’d lean on second thought,
Tho ye gods allude ‘tis but a whim
One wouldst entreat ought try again,
Thus, to find shed fate’s risk of grim!


                    	    		 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


                                                                 written in Sweetsburg	
                                                                       March 27, 2023



Imagery - Wikimedia Commons…
Music - excerpt of Leaving, by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier…


                 

Thin Skin

         – of time –

Move on,
Be but a turn, 
On thin skin 
Of time,
Make room
Tho you think,
You’re immune
To feelings played,
The while full moon 
May find perils allayed...


You’ve a nature
To find risk,
Said to take
Like an easy kiss, 
Tho life at times
Will feel amiss,
As may in season 
Near one’s winter,
Allude to be reason…


Though you’ll mind
To keep your head,		
For quite likely 
Still good stead,
You’ve feelings
Far from dead,
Yet left behind	 
Still think ahead, 
Tho avert play as blind   
Alas for while’s stead,
Thru that thin skin of time!

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                                        © Jean-Jacques Fournier


             	 ov. written in Montréal          
  	          April 25, 2002
              revisited March 20, 2023
		
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Time, by Ashutosh RFMusic 
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

A Place in Space

              – once planet earth –

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A Place in Space

              – once planet earth –

Tho crave
From birth,
To grave
For worth,
Wants save 
Stands earth,
In found place 
Ye’re not to skirt,
Or suffer mans waste
Thus, be need of alert,
From sapient nadir tricks 
Sufficiently, so as to assert,
Indifference has planet at risk 
As we consume with greedy thirst, 
Beyond a quotient level found gorge
A fare that we mortals will live to curse,  
Hence so in ones chagrin wouldst find forge
If but to hide a treasure inside a uniting verse,
That shall so curb such intent of a desolate grim,
Whilst ye gods fix a time for sidestepping a grave 
To culminate pleasures, tho soupçon of delectable sins!

		                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


written in Sweetsbu
March 17, 2023

Imagery - Marianne Dessis …
Music - Almost Blue by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

La Cordonnière

         – cette grande pointure – 

En l’honneur de la journée de la femme le 8 mars 2023

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La Cordonnière

         – cette grande pointure –                      

Depuis toujours,
En constant tourbillons 
Toutefois s’élevant,
Comme il semble
Probablement,
Une mise en scène 
Giratoire de mouvement, 
À ce jour même
Que la cordonnière, 
Vision insolite
Défiait les affaire,  
À jamais la Du Sault
Telle Marie-Victoire,
Modèle la chaussure
Cependant sans emprunt,  
Avec points de couture 
Vous ferait convoiter, 
Et mènerait à la botte
La vraie forme ajustée,
Sans faire de litote,
Pour les calcéophiles           
De la cordonnière, 
Cette grande pointure!

                                            © Jean-Jacques Fournier

écrit à Sweetsburg
le 9 mars 2023 

Imageries -Wikimédia Commons…
Musique - extrait de Limehouse Rag, par Media Music Now...
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier 

*Le bout d'un cordonnier, est un bout de fil pointu avec une soie, terme d’outil du véritable de cordonnerie...
Inspirée de Marie-Victoire DuSault (1845-1908), mère d'Oscar et de Marius Dufresne, est la source de fortune de la famille Dufresne. Fondatrice et propriétaire d'une modeste fabrique de souliers pour enfants, à Yamachiche, en 1860, cette femme déterminée fera croître 
son entreprise à Montréal sous les noms de Cordonnerie Dufresne, Dufresne et Pellerin et éventuellement de Dufresne et Locke. Son sens des affaires l'amène à exporter ses chaussures vers le maritime, aux États-Unis, en Europe, et même en Orient.

In honour of women’s day March 8, 2023

La Cordonnière

           – a lady cobbler –                      

Marie-Victoire DuSault – (1845-1908)

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La Cordonnière

           – a lady cobbler –

We see a world
From eons ago,
In constant whirl
Yet find to grow,
Thus, as it seems
Be predictable so, 
By gyrate scheme
Of things, to know,
Sets image in scene
As la cordonnnière,
Ne’er yet been seen
To pit trade affairs,
As Marie-Victoire 
Ever so la DuSault,
Would cobble shoes 
Hence if but borrow, 
Tho afar astute stitch
You’d aspire so choose,
Her grand boots will admit 
Should assure ye’d commend,
True to form did attend so to fit
As a lady cobbler shoemaker’s end!


                                  © Jean-Jacques Fournier

				                                      written in Sweetsburg
					                                     March 8, 2023

Imagery -Wikimedia Commons…
Music - excerpt of Limehouse Rag, by Media Music Now...
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier March 6, 2023…

*A shoemaker’s end, is a length of thread pointed with a bristle, a tool of the actual maker of footwear... 
   
Inspired by Marie-Victoire DuSault (1845-1908), mother of Oscar and Marius Dufresne, is the source of fortune of the Dufresne family. Founder and owner of a modest children's shoe factory, in Yamachiche, in 1860, this determined woman will grow her business in Montreal under the names of Cordonnerie Dufresne, Dufresne et Pellerin and eventually the Dufresne and Locke. His business sense leads him to export his shoes to the maritime, to the United States, Europe, and even to the East.

The Moment

– but a second be –

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The Moment

– but a second be –

Ye learn forever 
Be but a second,
Tho endeavour
To find extend,
Be the moment
We fix pretend,
In prolong time
Albeit beckons,        
To expand clock
Ye gods do lend,
We reckon mock
As would eternal,
Beyond instant
Of kept normal,
As said forever
Held in thought,
Fate opts clever
Set close to lost,
Blink of an eye
Nay to be found,
One day or other
For ye’d be gone,
After the moment 
Ne’er meant long,
Those waning days
Fixate a mind to see,
Of set persistent way
Has but the moment be!    


for my sister, Pierrette...
                                       
            © Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg
March 2, 2023

Music - excerpt of Almost Blue, by Chet Baker
Imaging - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier