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The While

– ye be around –

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The While

– ye be around –

Yet of no say
Best to seek, 
A kindly day
Evades bleak, 
For the while
Life has ye be,
In need of smile
To maybe see,
If not to hear
Hint of sound,
Suggests know
Won’t confound,
With not to show
Nor will respond,
Save to oneself,
As for the while
Be good or bad,
Without beguile
That ye’ve found,
Will go the mile
Or way around,
In the time it takes
While above ground,
For a life’s short state,
Man termed, the while!


                     © Jean-Jacques Fournier	


written in Sweetsburg,
PQ, Canada				       		                                                   
January 18, 2023

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Music – Africa Moon, by John Bartmann
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier

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Desperate Man

             – of traces unclear –

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Desperate Man

             – of traces unclear –

Desperate man
Arrives in fear,
Looking at life
Traces unclear,
To face despite
He cannot hear,
Thus, he writes
Hoping it bears,
Some hint of sight
Marks he’d be there!

			ode to coherence of clarity…

                   © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Imagery – Wikimedia Commons 
Music - Nardis by Chet Baker 
Audio -Jean-Jacques Fournier


                                written in Sweetsburg
			             March 28, 2022




		
	
			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Sandboxes ”   – and rainbows –

	


		

		
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“ Sandboxes ”


              – and rainbows – 


                              revisited –


Time played us so


Carefree of puerile,


As though forever


We’d live the while,


In wishful rainbows


That so beguiled,


Till hint of shadow


When of a sudden,


We’re cast adrift


Of childhood days,


Denied of sandboxes


Thus to find our way…


Now adult vision


Edges to fashion,


Of chance choices


In unlike passions,


Be soon worn thin


Held best assume,


Find remote whim


Of wearisome spins…


Yet period plagues


With insipid wishes,


And easy daydreams


Of undying rainbows,


In sandbox dwellings!


                        © Jean-Jacques Fournier


                                    o.v. 1st written Summer of 1983, in LA, California


         Painting, Children playing in a sandbox by James Le Jeune


                     Music, Kevin MacLeod – Incompetech Air Prelude #15





			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Silence ”  – for gratuitous reason –

	


		

		
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“ Silence ”


                – for gratuitous reason –


Why must I bide


To hear but sounds


Of silence,


At times a virtue


Now but a chide,


Thus weary I be


Ever waiting                             


On verbosity,


That might reflect                                                           


A hint of life…


           


Might I propose


In shades betwixt,


Effort compose


To so thus fix,


The emptiness                                                              


Of inert silence,


And the tedium


Of verbose prolix…


A word or more


I so implore


Even neath


The aural norm,


Albeit to tease


In lieu of please,


To save from silence


Held for gratuitous reason!


                                                             © Jean-Jacques Fournier

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Dancers ”  ~ inside and out ~

	


		

		
It seems to start,

With hint of impulse

Inside the heart,

Where links ones soul

To body’s rhythm,

When legs cajole steps

To tug at your mind,

Harmonizing in time

How bodies move

With music’s define,

And dancer groove

In and out to infuse,

Ones body and mind!