The Visitor

     – you may one day be –

The Visitor 

     – you may one day be –

Being here so far,
While not yet near
For worthy place,
Want to be clear
Tho twice as late,
And lo past dusk
Finds visitor’s fate,
Was a dreamy fuss
Afore mind awakes,
To find reality thrust
You may one day be,
Thus, the visitor’s take
Dead gods offer nought, 
As to live in casual state
That had ye blindly sought,
Hence seek avoid arriving late
Plus, believing they had bought,
A chance to get thru Peter’s gate!

                                   @ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

           Ode to my special friend Louise Fleischmann !


Written in Montecatini, Italia   
April 21, 2023  
Edited June 3, 2023 

Imagery - Wikimedia Commons 
Music – excerpt of Futuristic, Final Hours, Warrior From Heaven  
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier 
 

PS: Peter’s gate... 
Religious spoof re keeper of heaven’s entry... 

Warring

– man’s legacy –

War – painting by Jackson Pollock

– man’s legacy –

‘Tis long said of man
Wants live in peace,
Yet not so easily can 
For from evil feasts,
Be of warning plan
As legacy of beasts, 
Until he finds to shun
Warring man’s legacy!

                         © Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg
May 20, 2023

Another Mask

         – for anxious mind –

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         – for anxious mind –

Be no space 
Worldwide,
Nor a place
Fails one cry,
Yet will hide
Tho a brother,
Till I’ve died... 

Be no other
Save a sister,
Once forever
Yet now gone,
To wherever
She was bound,
Beg ‘tis better
Than end found,
Years the later
When her time,
For lifeless mask...

Need not bide, 
A fix too fast
In set disguise,
Tho elusive be
The gods oblige,
Thus, forget flee
Ye must decide,
With dying mind 
Set knit façade,
To leave behind
Hence not to hide,
Neath another mask!

         ode to my dear sister Pierrette, 1932 to 2023

© Jean-Jacques Fournier
 
written in Sweetsburg
May 18, 2023	


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Music - Frightening Dreams by Zitron Sound
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

The Mask

         – a place to hide –

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         – a place to hide –

You now find 
Need to hide,
Where time
Be disguise,
As the mask
Will fix wise,
Ye fit façade
Meant hold
Abide alive,
Amply bold 
To vent side,
If weary soul
Be near bent,
Seeks be told 
Of the advent, 
We suffer turn
In interval bide,
To elude hell burn
All the while alive,
With factor concern
The mask, a place to hide! 

	            © Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg
November 20, 2010
rewrote May 12, 2023


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Music - excerpt of Chet Baker’s My Mix at 4:30 min.
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier  

 

Trees

– if trees could talk –

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– if trees could talk –

If trees could walk
To reach a place,
Thus, so to talk
Of choice-less state
And find confer
Their imposed fate,
Of peril to suffer
The logger’s chop,
Despite despair 
Do beg they stop,
To slaughter trees
That clean the air,
And give of life
Posed to man’s fare,
Tho seems to blur
The eyes that stare, 
At words unheard
As would compare,
To abut carved rocks
From the drawn woes,
Of ancient petroglyphs
Fixed images of time ago,
Be language yet unspoken 
The while fixed in symbols so!

                        @ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

Written in Montecatini, Italia 
May 6, 2023

Music - Trees – Roa – for content creators...
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier 
Images – by Marianne Dessis

The Bench

        – be the where l sit –

Bench Sculpture of Giacomo Puccini… photo by Marianne Dessis

The Bench

     – be the where l sit –

I’ve walked the mile 
Yet have not moved,
Beyond fixated smile
Be where the bench,
Finds set my mood
To be the while l pit,
Wouldst so thus fool 
No matter that it fit, 
The distant kilometres 
One takes to save remit, 
A semblance of theatre
Thus, so my soul will be, 
On the bench, the where l sit!

                          @ Jean-Jacques Fournier 

Written in Montecatini, Italia 
@ Jean-Jacques Fournier 
May 10, 2023

Le Choix

    – de laisser faire –

Photo couverture par Marianne D.

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Le Choix

– de laisser faire –

Et si l’enfer 
Était plus loin,
Ou à l’envers
Serait-il au moins,
Plus facile
De s’y rendre,
En passant par la ville 
Que d’y descendre, 
Par la campagne
Naturellement ensemble,
Avec un bon champagne 
Que faut-il attendre, 
D’être rendu au feu
Ou hélas, sortir des cendres !

       © Jean-Jacques Fournier 

                                                                    
 écrit à Sweetsburg
 April 10, 2023


Imagery - Wikimedia Commons 
Music – excerpt of, Hook Sounds, Royalty Free Jazz
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier 

The Choice

        – to let it be –

Cover photo by Marianne D.

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The Choice

        – to let it be –

What if hell

Was amply far,

Or upside-down

Hence not to mar,

That ye be found

Wandering nearby,

Passing thru towns

Ne’er to go astray,

Despite via the city

Ere any which way,

Be naturally together

With a fine champagne,

To be thus our endeavour

The while reaching the fire,

Or alas, be exiting the ashes?

                            © Jean-Jacques Fournier 
                                                                  
                              written in Sweetsburg
			           April 10, 2023

			           
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Music – excerpt of, Hook Sounds, Royalty Free Jazz
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier 

A Boundlessness

   – in one’s aging life race –

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A Boundlessness

– in one’s aging life race –

There shall be a day
In our stead life race, 
That you find a way
In then slowing pace,
Be a boundlessness
Set in ageing echoes,
For a mind’s travel
Tho thru blurry past,
Without it unravels
Afore fades too fast, 
Resorting to babble 
As fate plans repass,
Tho be but to dabble
Fixed a bearable pass,
Was yet as found able
For its negligible place,
Did not start at the end
In one’s aging life race! 



           ©️ Jean-Jacques Fournier 



                written in Sweetsburg
	          April 8, 2023


Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Kiss of Spain, by Chet Baker
Audio -	Jean-Jacques Fournier   

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