bye

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Butterflies

– fluttering bye –

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Butterflies

– fluttering bye –

A butterfly
Searching
Blossoms,
Pursuing 
The mote
To provide,
Held florae
Need of alive 
Ye find dote,
On their array
Hence to adorn
Tho its short stay,
Be of iffy longevity 
Not butterfly’s say,  
Dancing in brevity…
 
Pushed by currents
He floats consciously   
On breezes apparent,
While ever so mindful
Found be lepidoptera, 
With beauty’s warrant 
Would remain pleasing, 
Thru a short summer fly 
Has butterflies trapezing,
All the while fluttering bye!

    Ode to butterflies, that they maybe forever…


                © Jean-Jacques Fournier
	                                                        written in Sweetsburg
                                           	                     August 2, 2022

Music - Endless Beauty, Pixabay							
Photography - Marianne Dessis
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
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Butterflies

             – by the bye –

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Butterflies

– by the bye –

Not incidental
We butterflies,
Ever so gentle 
Yet by the bye,
As ornamental 
To  human eye, 
Will so trample
Reasoning why,
Be florae ample
Ye soon realize,
Holds butterfly
Reach to offer life,
Or graces the sky
As fitfully dancing,
Be fulfilling his bye
The while ambling by! 

                                © Jean-Jacques Fournier





                                                       written in Sweetsburg
                                           	           July 22, 2022






Music -  Vivaldi L’estro armonica Op.3 Violin Ccocerto
Photography - Marianne Dessis & Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier




		
	
			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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Photography by Marianne Dessis … Music, Smoldering, by Kai Engel


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“ Butterfly, Butterfly ”


                        – fluttering bye –


Butterfly, butterfly


Leisurely floating


Dressing the sky,


Fitfully dancing


Shifted by currents


In breezes on high,


Ever so pleasing


You thus advent


Gently trapezing,


Yet softly you fly…


                                                               


Butterfly, butterfly


Fluttering bye


Your beauty defies,


Wonder exemplified


On wings so grand,


And of such splendour


To make rainbows pale,


In light of your colours…


 


Butterfly, butterfly


When summer is low


Too soon you must go,


So where will you fly


To bring life elsewhere,


That offers but sorrow


When you leave our sky,


Butterfly, butterfly


Alas but oh why,


Must your beauty then die!


 


                        written in Grasse, Fr. July 18, 2005


                                  edited in Sweetsburg, Ca. May 31, 2020  


                © Jean-Jacques Fournier


 


                                    A Butterfly ode to they who diligently


                                                 work to prevent the extinction of


                                                            fellow creature, the Lepidoptera…


 

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ A Secret ”     – I’ve to die with

	


		

		
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                                                a Moroccan Secret Box


“ A Secret ” 


 – I’ve to die with –




I’ve had secrets 


Rates not to keep,


Some by the by


Merits not a peep,


And one or two


Made me so blue


I’d given a bye…


 


But I’ve a secret


Shades my life,


Tho cannot share


Or fail to keep,


Thus held to bear


Finds futile weep,


Without concede


While I’m awake


Or in my sleep…


 


‘Tis a secret


That won’t heed,


And so remains


Despite I plead,


Be of a memory


Begs god-speed,


Hence to forego


Yet I find realize,


Fixed be of a kind


One can’t be freed,


Held thus a secret


That I’ve to die with!


 


                                        written in Grasse


                                               © Jean-Jacques Fournier