– begs not dispel –
How can one tell If still of need, Man’s craggy shell Near gone to seed, Suggests farewell And denies plead, Begs not dispel The while he lives, May find to dwell Where soul outlives, Said craggy shell Tho mayn’t forgive, Portends bordering hell!
written in Sweetsburg © Jean-Jacques Fournier
May not as ere see That one may find, An image wants be Past life fixed time, And beyond destiny Said annals defined, For no matter the plea The gods remain blind, To fate's hold ye not flee!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
final October 5, 2021
Excerpt of image by Stiller Beobachter
from Ansbach, Germany
As autumn leaves, Shadows fall On a shivery eve, While mind recalls Obscuring shades, I’m made to feel While vista fades, A summer’s peal Nature betrays, Once sun filled days…
Thus autumn leaves My soul behind, A summer hostage Of plead declined To keep alive Fair weather skies, And butterflies …
Soon winter’s blast Will cast a haze, To chase the last Of autumn days, And scattered leaves When Frost said Jack, Will come awake In a world near grey, To soon blustery wakes…
Tho I’d turn back Fall season’s clock, Nature chose cold As its mortal mock, To oblige Thanatos Who will now wrest, Fall season’s soul As autumn leaves, To soon make way For a winter’s hold!
© Jean-Jacques Fourier
Imagery - by MD
Music - New York Jazz, Classics...
Audio recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier
– a gladiators’ Rome-
Thumbs Up
– a gladiators’ Rome –
Held be thumbs up
Meant slaves bade,
A grant of life just
Tho short accolade,
Spares ye as lion sup
Feast so on gladiator,
Or as gladiatrix lust
Would a thumbs down,
Send we to an early grave
Assures one’s final round,
Will realize time’s fated age
Chose whisper of deaths await,
Faint yet by an abjured persuade
As the obscured days of old did rate,
Reminiscent so of a gladiators’ Rome!
This gesture has its roots,
in the days of Caesar,
be then gladiators’ Roma...
Audio - Recital, by Jean-Jacques Fournier Music - Rise of the Phoenix, proudmusiclirrary.com Imagery – Assorted Private & Public written in Sweetsburg © Jean-Jacques Fournier August 28, 2021
– from here to there –
Getting nowhere In particular, Holds baby bare Not yet articular, From here to there Out of the picture, Be on the run In quest of a live future! ode to neglectful man lost...
Music - Excerpt of Johann Sebastian Bach, prelude-no-1-in-c major... Audio - Recital, by Jean-Jacques Fournier ... Imagery - Assorted, personal & public ...
© Jean-Jacques Fournier July 30, 2021
– in said tinnitus –
There is a buzz In said tinnitus, Unknown cause To seek litigious, For forceful kiss Ye want to leave, Its incessant hiss That causes grieve, Won’t even pause This vexing sound, Not a cicada’s kiss One may’ve found, In a summer’s bliss...
Be echoes of hell Aims sibilant feel, As wouldst a bell With endless peal, And thus, can tell A tintinnabulum, Of alternate stead Will find torment, Ye wretched head, Tho best decapitate If one foregoes too late, Homopteran’s migrates In guise of a cicada’s kiss, You’d realize be godless fate!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
written in Sweetsburg
July 29, 2021
– linger as traps –
While illusions fade
In hues adrift,
Our imagings wade
Bound as gifts,
Over jagged thorns
In silken wraps,
Found be adorned
Linger as traps,
Propitiously borne
To last perhaps,
The while to lie hid
Find not collapse,
As tho a laudable bid!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Audio - Recital, by Jean-Jacques Fournier Music – Adagio excerpt, by Johann Sebastian Bach 2:30 Imagery – Assorted, Personal & Public written in Sweetsburg July 15, 2021
Will in time Knit façade, Like a mask For the mind, Blinds fate past!
Seem out of place Fate’s shades of time, Too soon effaced A once upon sublime, Find lost in waist Humanity’s sad define, Tho truth known Rashly yours and mine!
– adjudged end unknown –
As I recall now, Of early dawn The gods avow, Scant paragon Be held to end, As I grow wise Find so intend, To forever thrive, In minds eye norm Be of fates trickeries, Adjudged end unknown!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier All 3 poems, abridged for short version, written in Sweetsburg July 10, 2021 Music - Maurice Ravel, Excerpt of Sonatine 1 Imagery - Private & public Audio Recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier
Brother
– can you spare the time –
The while not my bide
To thus beg for a dime,
For my perishing hide
Too soon had its time,
Hence afore I’m dead
Mightn’t one not tout,
If you hadn’t yet read
I am no more about,
For ominous debate
May but allow doubt,
Afore I be deaths bate
Ought find while alive,
Can you spare the time,
A word or more tho late
To be that brother mine!
ode to a lost brother…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Recalling those stories Of the great depression, In 1929 to 1933 to WW2 Be common to the times, Being prelude to ill ease Found compose a poem, Implores please, Brother Can you spare a dime, As the situate entreats Thus to spare the time!
Images - Private & public
Music - Misery, by Jani Ukkonen
Audio recital – Jean-Jacques Fournier
ov written in Sweetsburg
January 19, 2013
abridged edition
June 21, 2021
Now but afternoon In lifetime destiny, Be forever too soon For morrow apathy, Ye’d aspire for room To ignore life’s brevity, Thus minimize its gloom That seeks invade our sanity!
A reflection on life ever fleeting,
in the wake of an adversary,
known as annual anniversary…
© Jean-Jacques Fournier V2 written in Sweetsburg June 12, 2021 Music - Funeral, by Zurida Imagery - Wikimedia Commons Audio Recital – Jean-Jacques Fournier
