frail

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A Face

– in final phase –

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A Face

-in final phase –

A face now deeply lined, 
Even shade will not pale
To lessen relentless time,
Praying on it being frail
With an unrelenting seep,
Begs fix like clefts in haze
To delay degenerating creep,  
While be, a face in final phase!

	         Ode to a faceless reality...


                                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Imaging - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
Music – excerpt of Skylark, by Chet Baker
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Shadows – where faces hide –

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Shadows
         - where faces hide -

In time dawn’s shadow
Would dim the cruelty,
A face deemed bide 
From its carved path,
Will transmute hide
Said nature’s trap,
For wind burnt flesh
That reads like brail,
Or weathered mesh
On skin humanly frail,
Finds soon be paired
To rock-strewn canyons,
Reflection of a dire face
As pain unravels memory,
Of its passing shadows
Hence where faces hide,
Among phantoms of the past 
Where these faces did emerge!

                                                           © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Images – Private authors; Malik Earnest 2015

Music – Leaving by Chet Baker

Audio Recital – Jean-Jacques Fournier

                                                                             written in Sweetsburg

                                                                                   January 2, 2022

                                                                       edited January 10, 2022

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“ Requital ” ~ for said unfair ~

Know requite be

For said unfair,

Who thus so rule,

To take from they

The frail to fool,

And without care

Discount despair…

 

Thus be requital

For miscreants,

Of callous ways

Sets time await,

They so will live

To find a fated day!