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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

by

Butterflies

             – by the bye –

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Butterflies

– by the bye –

Not incidental
We butterflies,
Ever so gentle 
Yet by the bye,
As ornamental 
To  human eye, 
Will so trample
Reasoning why,
Be florae ample
Ye soon realize,
Holds butterfly
Reach to offer life,
Or graces the sky
As fitfully dancing,
Be fulfilling his bye
The while ambling by! 

                                © Jean-Jacques Fournier





                                                       written in Sweetsburg
                                           	           July 22, 2022






Music -  Vivaldi L’estro armonica Op.3 Violin Ccocerto
Photography - Marianne Dessis & Wikimedia Commons
Audio - Jean-Jacques Fournier




		
	
			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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A Man

	


		

		

       – called Marc –




















Wanderer Above the Sea by David Friedrich





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A Man 





             – called Marc –





He’d not stay long,
In life’s short run
Be too soon gone,
As if one shunned
To an early dawn,
From a place won 
In a shortish song,
He as a brother be
Far too young gone, 
Gods fixed not see,
As life span of a pawn
Alas was short-lived run 
Thus, alike an early dawn!






                   Might you have parted
                               without telling your friend,
                                      dear Marc, until it was too late…? 






                               © Jean-Jacques Fournier






  Ode, two scores late, for the passing
        of Marc Tetreault, the rarest of dear friends.

          written in Sweetsburg
		April 17, 2022






Imagery - Wanderer Above the Sea by David Friedrich
Music - No Problem by Chet Baker Quartet
Audio - recital by Jean-Jacques Fournier

PS: If there should be an afterlife or such a thing as a next life,
                Marc is the one true friend I would seek to befriend again.








                                





                       





                                

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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A Morrow – too soon –

	


		

		

                         















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A Morrow 





                              – too soon –





Now but afternoon
In lifetime destiny,
Be forever too soon
For morrow apathy,
Ye’d aspire for room
To ignore life’s brevity,
Thus minimize its gloom
That seeks invade our sanity!






		A reflection on life ever fleeting, 
                          in the wake of an adversary,
	                        known as annual anniversary… 






                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier

V2 written in Sweetsburg 
June 12, 2021

Music - Funeral, by Zurida
Imagery - Wikimedia Commons
Audio Recital – Jean-Jacques Fournier







			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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Image,Imagining, Imaging – of destined to be –

	


		

		






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Image, Imagining, Imaging 





                  – of destined to be –










                                               
Image
     - you see -

May not ere be 
If ne’er ye find
An image to see,
In fact ‘tis of ye 
As short set time, 
Despite of a plea
For annals define,
Be vacant you see
Of destined life be!





Imagining
     - persona said whole -

Risks find exterior 
Not imagining be, 
A creation inferior
Albeit melds just,
Held modestly bold
May not be an image
Of persona said whole!


Imaging 
         -  fixed impression -

In one’s reflection
A mirrored façade,
Of fixed impression
Has one soon wonder,
What he will envisage
Of neoteric squander,
Thru lifetime’s ravages
Of reality faced imaging!


                                 

In imagining, imaging image  
          - of destined to be -




                              © Jean-Jacques Fournier
                                        March 19, 2021

Imagery - Private & Public ... 
Music – Elegant Bossa Nova Jazz
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Validating  – an aging mind –

	


		

		






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 Validating 
            - an aging mind - 

 From apropos 
 to ye ought know,
 would that we find
 the how to slow,
 an aging mind... 

 Yet far from reign
 these gods that play,
 our heads in game 
 be mindless way,
 need feign shame
 from apropos,
 to ye ought know
 afore ‘tis time,
 Too soon will show!     

                       A mindful raison d’être...






            © Jean-Jacques Fournier    
                                                                    
 Audio recital – by the author...
 Music - Almost Blue, by Chet Baker...
 Imagery – Private & Public ...
  
                           written in Sweetsburg    
                                      February 25, 2021 





                        










                                   


























			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ A Morrow ”  – too soon –

	


		

		
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“ A Morrow ”


                – too soon –


Now but afternoon


In a lifetime destiny,


Whenever too soon


A morrow’s apathy,


Be angling the room


Ignoring life’s brevity,


Indifferent to gloom


Invading one’s sanity!


                 © Jean-Jacques Fournier


                        A reflection on life, ever fleeting…                    


                                     In the wake of an adversary,


                                     also known as annual anniversary…


Music – Funral, by Zurida


Pictures – Personal collection


                        written in Sweetsburg


                               September 1, 2020

			

	
	



			
				



	
	


		
					

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“ Another Yesterday ”  ~ too soon ~

	


		

		
 


Ah yesterday,


You’re there


Once more


Too soon,


Before the day


Has barely gone,


The while I want


For just a bit


To carry on,


Before day’s end,


Tho I should fuss


To turn the clock


It pays no mind


My want expend,


That I might find


How best to give,


A full share’s worth,


Of I’ve to live


And well before


I’m made to taste,


Another yesterday!