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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 ...
Poetry on a canapé 