– on second thought –
Looking
– on second thought –
Tho at times misplace Know it will be found, Not so but to save face And be of a mind sound, I can yet find the place As it’s ne’er truly lost, Due to a recall’s grace Held on second thought! © Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
June 25, 2022
Image - Wikimedia Commons -
– for perceptive thought –
Giacomo Puccini, Compositore Italiano 1858 – 1924
Looking
– for perceptive thought –
Looking For perceptive thought, That questions Worth of one sought, Thus, so to being sown In fashion so be not forgot!
written in Sweetsburg © Jean-Jacques Fournier June 22, 2022
– worn on my mind –
– worn on my mind –
A face I’ve worn Seemed all of me, Three scores plus And ten more be, Finds recall days Of endured inure, Yet stayed in kind Somewhat obscure, Be neath a surface Nigh on infinitude, Tho of sculpt crags That does fit define, Held but scallywag Worn on my mind Be a face I once had!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Idle Moments by Grant Green CF
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
June 12, 2022
– of oscitant place –
– of oscitant place –
Tho be an inevitable climb,
Imaging craggy furrows,
Meant form alas in time
As etch once felt mellow,
Prior aging life defined
Held voiced rather low,
Find now a somber face
Despite cerebral callow,
In way of oscitant place
You’d admit poor guise,
Thus, well beyond efface
Save should ye be so wise!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Image – Wikimedia Commons
Music – Melancholic Music by Ravel
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
June 11, 2022
– where are you now –
Marc Tetreault
– where are you now –
Where are you now Since the gods chose, You take a final bow So, without appose, Back in those fifties And tho but a prose, The while too young Halfway near its start, Of a life barely begun Be end of Marc known, For too soon ye be gone As angle save Beelzebub, Yet in memory ye be found Was a young man still in bud, Lived life before ‘twas started In a kind in time conjures a rosebud!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier Ode to a long-time dear friend, a Montrealer Marc Tetreault who introduced me to Italia di persona, ergo he nor Italia will be forgotten…
written in Montecatini Italia June 9, 2022 Image – JJF private photo Music – Almost Blue by Chet Baker Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– in inhuman place –
– in inhuman place –
The face I see
Thru shady light,
Fixed traces be
That stills the night,
Save from embrace
For once held life,
As part of human race
Now fits inhuman place…
The face ye find reflect,
With its cragged imagery
Of yawning sculpted lines,
Set deep beneath the touch
Wouldst trail the journeys,
That wants tell stories
Such mortals had to travel…
In time dawn’s shadows
Would dim the cruelty
That carved its path,
To fashion distinctly,
Their wind burnt flesh
That reads like brail,
On faces lined like mesh
Neat mask made of chain mail....
Of these raw bone beings,
Imaging grievous faces
Seem to beg ends travel
Or memory of its passing,
A survival that holds bold
For be phantoms of the past,
Where these faces did emerge!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Image - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Almost Blue by Chet Baker
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
ov written in Montreal
January 2, 2002
posted in Sweetsburg
June 5, 2022
– for way home –
I’ve a lifetime invested Searching for a place, I might have rested In its calm embrace, Afore weary bones Be made yet carry, A still spirited body Seeks but want tarry, Tho when and where Suggests not to hurry, As fate leads me there Will somehow show, The many times before A pleasure held to roam, In idle distances and more Save till now finding anxious, Cause be looking for way home!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
April 26, 2022
– to know why –
Wanting
– to know why –
Would it matter,
Wanting
To know why,
If one didn’t
Get an answer,
Having thought
To wonder,
Ought question
Mental wrought,
Find whether
Trouble ought,
Tho no longer
Above water,
While persists
Probe forever,
One considers
Being clever,
Mightn’t ever
Learn reply,
Wanting
To know why,
Best be left
Without an answer!
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - excerpt of Debussy, Chopin, Satie (Piano Music)
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
April 17, 2022
– in shadows dark –
– shadows dark –
Be hollows stark Painting a mind, In shadows dark To survive time, Be need of world Best ne’er blind, As creatures we Given short line, Expecting future Soon fades offline, Will want a tutor For make believe, Set as fake humans Be computer achieved, Save a life’s meagre race Holds no reason to grieve, With compos mentis in place Ye ought find painting a mind Seeks not dark shadows embrace!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier written in Sweetsburg April 23, 2022
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons… Music – Diane by Chet Baker… Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier…
He’d not stay long, In life’s short run Be too soon gone, As if one shunned To an early dawn, From a place won In a shortish song, He as a brother be Far too young gone, Gods fixed not see, As life span of a pawn Alas was short-lived run Thus, alike an early dawn!
Might you have parted
without telling your friend,
dear Marc, until it was too late…?
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Ode, two scores late, for the passing
of Marc Tetreault, the rarest of dear friends.
written in Sweetsburg
April 17, 2022
Imagery - Wanderer Above the Sea by David Friedrich
Music - No Problem by Chet Baker Quartet
Audio - recital by Jean-Jacques Fournier
PS: If there should be an afterlife or such a thing as a next life,
Marc is the one true friend I would seek to befriend again.
Poetry on a canapé 