Temperament
Elicitor of emotions,
Diabolical channel
Of reactions,
Discombobulating
A gentle state,
Wants be my fate…
Temperament
Destabilizing
Congruence,
Imposing burdens
Of wrathful kind…
Temperament
Blackened by stage
Of paroxysmal rage,
Like an enervate pawn
I search to stay the way,
Of temperamental sway!
To explore,
Turmoil
In their souls…
Should you ask
Me to explain
I’d beg to abstain,
As to further elaborate
Would only discombobulate!
I’ve felt extremes
Of ardent sweet
To blatant mean,
And I’ve been glad
As well as sad,
But far too often
I might add
Squandered so
Time recklessly,
Ostensibly exploring
Eclectic means,
Of sorting out
The abstract
I’m about,
Living in greys
Of wistful dreams
In disordered ways,
Anxious to find
A mind at peace
That might be mine,
Far from extremes!
I might’ve stayed
To linger here
Another day,
If there be reason,
To suffer yet
Without I find
I’d but survive,
A mindless habit,
Of far too long
Blindly stayed away…
Despite a doubt
I’d boldly chose
To be about,
Thus so to realize
Be the gift of you
Life sent my way,
This likelihood
To now admit
I’d finally understood,
That I be meant to stay!
I close my eyes
And listen
To the euphony,
That brings to life
A sun filled sound
Wants skirt the rain…
And when I hear
The music flow
So freely to my ear,
Elation but awakes
My limboed soul,
To nudge emotions
Parched and dry…
Thus musician stay
That I may hear you play
The music you so speak,
Would lure a soul
From complacent silence
That renders bleak,
Hence musician play,
That I be once more whole!
He’s not immune
To implausible dreams,
Those he dares
Meant be so bold,
He’ll forego care
That be not in tune,
To imaged notions
Of man-made reason,
For his give life
To every season…
—
Shovelling clouds
He clears a path
Thru stayed emotions,
That but dictate
One ought fear life
Of dreams that urge
We build a world
With clouds of wonder,
Thus so forsaking
Man’s dreary rituals,
He’ll shovel clouds
To so lay bare
The dreams he dares!
© Jean-Jacques Fournier
Ode to Denis Chagnon
Poetry on a canapé 