“ The Other Side ” – of nowhere –

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“ The Other Side ”

             – of nowhere –

It’s a state of mind

Where the place to be,

Is a paradise uncharted

That sanity infers,

Is a situate must see

While so far it seems,

Getting there does mean

One need travel,

If but a gift for dreaming

On the other side of nowhere…

Doubt may at times

Discern ye be afraid,

Clouds so our mind

Yet fails to dissuade,

Of new worlds define

Be humanly worthy,

Said majority’s kind

So unlike parasitical,

Precursor to the blind

Seen perilous politicals,

Since inept left behind …

Hence I daren’t hesitate

With this bold escapade,

Want readily participate

In what leads to souls aid,

Facing a world, in decline

Not iniquitous charade,                                                                      

Held be set state of mind

If ye should opt to believe,

Can so resolve to soon find,

The other side of nowhere!

 

                     ov written in Montreal in 2001                        

                                            © Jean-Jacques Fournier

Music, The Journey Before Dawn – by Natura Silentia

Paintings include, Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Fall and Expulsion from the Garden of Eden and William Blake, Illustration to Dante’s Inferno, Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell.

Photos by/par, MD

“ Memory Ah Memory ” ~ could you not bide ~

 

Memory ah memory

Where did you go,

Must you now hide

To forsake me so,

Or could you not bide

Memory ah memory,

That we end side by side!

 

“ While I’m Alive ” ~ in that embrace ~

Before I reach

That lonely place,

Let me reside

While I’m alive,

Close by her side

In that embrace

Of each day’s best,

Which lets me hear

That joyous fest

Of her voice near,

Alluding to be clear

Love will survive,

Until I am no longer!

“ Wouldn’t It Be ” ~ wonderful ~

 

Wouldn’t it be

Marvellous,

Should we abide

To opt on side,

That feelings be

Reason decides,

Not self-absorbed

Fate may devise

Or tend both sides,

Yet rid of over drive

Thus so guided,

To fix on wouldn’t be

Naught, if not but wonderful!

 

 

 

“ This Side Of Fair ” ~ a honourable place ~

 

 

I’ve need to know

This side of fair

If I’ve been so,

With whom

I’ve shared,

Varied aspects 

Of a life dared…

 

Imperfect choices 

With answers few,

Wants judge fair

Existent struggles,

Eliciting despair…

 

I want to know

Without proviso

For weighing so,       

Accountability

I’ve sided just,

And beyond shades

Of laudable dust

For honourable place,

This side of fair!