slide

by

Looking

– wide eyed –

Looking

– wide eyed –

Holding a thought
To ponder its worth,
Sagaciously ought
Ye honor its birth,
Be erudite sought
Observe held bide,
Thus not be fraught
Looking wide eyed,
As tempted to flirt
With fool’s divide, 
Tho find to divert  
The while lets slide,
Implies shan’t avert 
Held fixed be last ride,
Shan’t so flaunt its worth!

                         Ode to inevitable fading memory...

	  © Jean-Jacques Fournier


     written in Sweetsburg                   
     September 11, 2022












Imagery - National Galleries of Scotland



			

			
						

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Vertical Imbroglio ” – a shadow state –

	


		

		











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“ Vertical Imbroglio ”                                   





                 – a shadow state –     





I reach ahead





Haltingly so,





As I prepare





To step alas, 





Beyond length





It takes to pass,





A prior stride





Repairs behind,





In effort guide





A next in kind,





Repeats to bide,





Thus so I sense





May tend to slide,





As if said motion





Would so impair,





To suffer notions





Of a lost equilibrium… 





 















While tho awake,  





I envisage myself   





Inhabiting a place,                                 





Of vertical imbroglio  





As a shadow state,  





Steps be but echoes  





 In an outer mind   





Suggesting guise,  





We’re to accept  





Its bogus disguise,  





Tho manipulated   





By what’s left alive,  





 And still humanlike  





Despite emotive pries… 




















Hence be sagacious                                                                          





Attempt at realism,





Imbroglio’s shadow





State imaging façade,





Said of bemused reality,                                                                                





The while life’s demise   





Be destined irrevocably,                                                                                       





Tho holds mans laudable prize!










                © Jean-Jacques Fournier 
                         1st written in Grasse, France  2005
  
Paintings - by René Magritte ... 
 Audio’s music - exerpt of  Oblivion by Astor Piazzolla ... 










		
	
			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Time’s Façade ”   ~ in camouflage ~

	


		

		


Time will but efface


Despite disguise,


When what belies                                                   


Beneath the surface


Of its sad facade,


Starts to disclose 


Time cannot hide, 


In camouflage


All that will slide,


For in the end, alas 


All shades will fade,


Thus best be wise                                                               


To define its guise,                                                             


Less you be willing


To suffer blindly,


When time decides


Life’s meaningful side!