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Another Face

           – holds persistent –

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Another Face

           – holds persistent –

Wouldst expect live
From child unclad,
To babbles’ demise 
Beyond level of sad, 
Save coherent wise 
Who appear to add,
Purpose comprised
Of a raison d’être,
Afore another face
Need not be a fête,
In spell given hand
Occupies life space, 
Thus, living the race,
That says you’re alive
Best before final date,
Ye so drag to survive 
Find delay grave fate,
May not end so brave
When be made to face,
Despite eke of last steps
You will do so with grace,
The while holds persistent
Be too soon for another face! 

                                     © Jean-Jacques Fournier



  Image - Wikimedia Commons                         
  Music – excerpt of Almost Blue by Chet Baker
  Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier     
                                                                             ov written in Montréal 
                                                                             rewrote in Sweetsburg 
                                                                               November 30, 2022

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I Awake

– should fate so will –

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I Awake

– should fate so will –

That I awake
Another day,
To live a fate
With little say,
Save to amend
My errant way,
Before the end
Thus to renew,
As to contend
Said life anew,
The while fend
As destine wills,
But a scant stay…

Time tallies still
Tho be few days,
For failing gods
Now dated skills,
Tend fall behind
Too aged to fulfil,
In garbled minds 
Verge on placate, 
Yet decreed still
Our waning state,
Hence so fate's will!

                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


 written in Sweetsburg
ov February 19, 2017
edit published, August 15, 2022

Music - Ethereal Thoughts, by Victor Wayne
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier
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On The Run – from here to there –

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On The Run

– from here to there –

Getting nowhere
In particular,
Holds baby bare
Not yet articular,
From here to there
Out of the picture,
Be on the run
In quest of a live future!

	 ode to neglectful man lost...


Music - Excerpt of Johann Sebastian Bach, prelude-no-1-in-c major...
Audio - Recital, by Jean-Jacques Fournier ...
Imagery - Assorted, personal & public ...



			       © Jean-Jacques Fournier			                                                   
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Blunder, Bar and Bond

	


		

		

                                                   – be notions of life –










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Blunder, Bar and Bond





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Blunder
        
Plagued we are
By yet another,
Held gone too far
Be trying blunder,
Tho per chance par
There ne’er be other!






Bar

By raising the bar
To reset your goal,
You exceed by far
A weakening hold
That could so mar,
A bid to live whole!






Bond 

Incline assume
The gods so tend,
Bonds we groom 
May bear a friend,
With they in whom 
Affection finds send,
A life ye want to bloom!






                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier 
                        Written in Sweetsburg, May 26, 2021






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“ A Day In A Life ”   – to live as tho twice –

	


		

		
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“ A Day In A Life ”


         – to live as tho twice –


If I could but live


A day in a life,


Fate chose to give


Be without strife,


One might feel free


To hence display


The whole that I be,


For today I’d not wept


Holds a day of all days


With euphoria I’ve kept,


Fix this day as a guide


So that I now can see,


All my life till I died…


Such a day in a life


Would be held rule,


Thus to fix the way


Would purge redicule,


And learn to let go


As to feel what you see,


Be the birth of it all


Like a bursting of buds,


On a flowering tree


As spring yawns away,


And dawn’s early hours


Sets sight towards May,


To a first summer’s day…


Yet all of the while


You’ve but time


The gods lend,


Hence a day in a life


From beginning to end


You must live as tho twice,


For that may be all


You’d be given of life!


                                          © Jean-Jacques Fournier    


                          Originally written in Vence, Fr.


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Music – exerpt of Orfeu Negro, Brazil …

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ A Joy ”  – imagined –

	


		

		
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Art, The Joy of Life, Henri Matisse


Music, Kai Engel, Cabetet


“ A Joy ”


      – imagined –


A joy extant infers


Fate lets attain,


I find imagine


What ought contain,


Stuff be of dreams


Imaging the silken,


Rather than lined


In matters coarse,


Though often times


Joy be dark horse,


To masquerade


Masked as a rose,


In joyless shade,


Wanting but dispose…


 


Yet be this joy


Illusion’s dope,


Thirsting to enjoy


We live in hope,


Yet sadly fantasize


In musings empty,


Waiting joy incites


A moment of delight


To more than but survive!


                        A young man’s search recalling joy…




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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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“ Let Me In ”  ~ I want to live ~

	


		

		
Let me in, he pled,


I’m so frightened


And so hungry


I’m near dead,


Thus in a world


Without a stead,


He finds has bled


Away the heart


Of they he’d beg,


A place to start


That he may live,


Among the fated


Who would give,


Tho humble gift


Said kindly deed,


Plied moral lift


That he may seed


Enough for those,


Who needed feed


The debt one feels


To they who chose,


Should let him in


That he may live!


                                       ode to they who chose to let in,


the ravaged by war and terror…


                        © Jean-Jacques Fournier      


 

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Life ”  ~ not at any price ~

	


		

		
Life by any means


Tho not at any price,


Thus seizing hope


To live a slower life,


Time hasn’t yet stole,


Believing we can cope


Years of certain toll,


Life will find extort


As barter for a soul,


If to extend one’s life


And render it near whole!

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Reasons ”  ~ but to justify ~

	


		

		




Reasons, 


Simple to find 


Easy to give,


Reasons of why


So few live, 


For be but excuses


Not worth their uses, 


As most rate less


Than gossamer ruses,


And far too many


Neath tenable any,


Be worthy of reason


Save want vindicate


Timorous misoneism,           


Held beyond reason!