guile

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A Wandering Man

            – seeks a longer while –

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A Wandering Man            

 – seeks a longer while –                                                           

He wanders about
For trenchant life,
But without doubt
Save eonian strife,
Fixes a sure bout 
As afore afterlife,
Be willing to wait
A progeny clever,
Till ye find place
Visualizes forever,
That allows placate
For no reason ever,
This wandering man
Seeks a longer while,
Thus, so to find whole
With but copious guile
Might delay growing old!

				ode to forever young of spirit…

                             © Jean-Jacques Fournier 
			   
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Music - Excerpt of Wandering by Steve Combs
Audio recital – by Jean-Jacques Fournier

written in Sweetsburg
March 20, 2022
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The Look

        – of a forlorn smile –

Flora Priestley Lamplight, by John Singer Sargent

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The Look

– of a forlorn smile –

I picture the look
Of a beguiled face,
That wants to brook 
Find an affable place,
For the very long while
Hence want not lose pace,
Nor to misplace found smile
Tho all gods shan’t pay grace,
When irrelevant be man’s guile 
Who wouldst try calm sadly face,
With the tacit mind, of a forlorn smile!

                                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


Imagery - Amedeo Modigliani & John Singer Sargent
Music – If I Should You – by Chet Baker
Audio – Jean-Jacques Fournier






                                          written in Sweetsburg





                                              January 18, 2022





                                                         















                 






		
	
			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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If Truth Be Told   – how then discern –

	


		

		











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If Truth Be Told 
	- how then discern -






If truth be told
Will it yet reach,
Its vision worthy
Of ether entreat,
Not bent in guile
Of vitiate deceit, 
Yet who’s to say 
Man didn’t teach,
The gods’ sly way
Thus so to breach,
How then discern
Of which we speak,
Thus be held truth 
Or but failed preach,
Aimed credible to hold
Tho history has its doubt,
If man’s veiled truth be told!






						        © Jean-Jacques Fournier
						      
					inspired from the poem Truth be Xenophanes 
					          Greek philosopher, theologian, poet
						  for timeless words of wisdom!






Imagery - Public & Personal ...
Music - Whose There by Peter Sandberg ...
Audio Recital - Jean-Jacques Fournier ...

re-written in Sweetsburg
March 26, 2021



			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ In Whom We Trust ”  – a pledge unyielding –

	


		

		
We’ll spend much of our life


Believing we’ve support,


Even who be cause of strife


And others who purport,


Want offer pledge unyielding


Yet fail recognize distort,


Despite discernable unfeeling


Considers ‘tis of import,


With a pledge ne’er fulfillable


Bidden by beguiling sort,


For if be trust ill affordable


Best one accepts negate,


That faux devotees find hide


In a dark they generate,


Till they detect credulous side


Of dim trust to postulate,


Would ne’er need don disguise


As sad side of man’s make,


Be ample cover for shady side…


 


Alas what trust you had,


Bore soon be brushed aside


Save be for those at ease,


With deceitful vow devised


May for a time succeed,


As a perceived guile denies


The false of it bares rust,


For held karma take a stand


On sham assured commit,


Yet ‘tis far from wonderland


Pledge adamant be must,


Tho man ne’er understands


Yet deigns find a love lost,


In a pledge but second hand


While one must learn to trust!


 


                                                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


 


 


 

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Apostrophizing ” ~ to form a connection ~

	


		

		
We’re held believe,


Life offers beings


A state perceived,


As an apostrophe


Of human needs,


Held best allayed


By transient bond,


Save best ignored


Till they abscond,


Supernumeraries


Of guile abound,


With ignobility


Of such ineptness,


As to apostrophizing


To form a connection,


Holds short imagining


Word worth excogitation!


                                                                         © Jean-Jacques Fournier


 


 

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ The Façade ”   ~ of a smile ~

	


		

		
He wears a smile


Save no surprise,


If but the while


He means to hide,


His shaded guile


Woefully apprised,


In a conjured façade…


 


He has known wile


In angst of sorrow,


More than enough


To find not borrow,


He’d known tears


Gathered for years


Beyond subsides,


Rendered invasive


To the outer side,


Of harbouring mazes…


 


Thus the façade


Blurred in guises,


Holds few surprises


Be joy or sadness                                          


That smiles disguise,                                      


Alas but for appearance!