Choice of words and meanings
Inference in hiding
Expanding rights
Beyond facts
Setting the stage
To go further
With the next little case
To loose the floodgates
More than measured steps
When the right is denied
And it isn’t right
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Saturday, April 24, 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
Ten Years
Ten Years, Dad
Since you lost control
At Mile Marker 19
On Valentine’s Day
Without her.
So close to me
Yet we never saw you.
How I wish I knew you
Better. How I wish
We were friends.
Lives lived inside ourselves
Never knowing each other
Never sharing much
Except for the talks in the
Car from Durham home
And back again,
Now twenty years past
I miss you
Because I didn’t have
A chance
To break through
The walls that you used
To live as you wanted
With family at
Arms length.
Much there was
That I should have
Said to you
That might have made
Things different
For me. But
We never had
The time or
The words were
Too brief.
Since you lost control
At Mile Marker 19
On Valentine’s Day
Without her.
So close to me
Yet we never saw you.
How I wish I knew you
Better. How I wish
We were friends.
Lives lived inside ourselves
Never knowing each other
Never sharing much
Except for the talks in the
Car from Durham home
And back again,
Now twenty years past
I miss you
Because I didn’t have
A chance
To break through
The walls that you used
To live as you wanted
With family at
Arms length.
Much there was
That I should have
Said to you
That might have made
Things different
For me. But
We never had
The time or
The words were
Too brief.
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edited
December 29, 2015
Demons
– v2
edited
December 29, 2015
Did
You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
The
Crash – v2
edited
December 18, 2015
The
Submariner – v2
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Meticulous
– v2
&
edited
December 18, 2015
Adam
Asked – v2
==========
edited
October 22, 2015
Did
you brace for impact – v2
edicted
October 22, 2015
Mile
Marker 19 – v8
(editing
original)
edited October
5, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v9
(editing
version 5)
&
edited October
3, 2015
Why on this
day – v3
(editing
original)
edited October
19, 2014
Why on this
day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this
day
“My Prayers
Weekend!”
“Next Day
Stretch”
draft a note
to God
about a day
when you struggled
with a big question
for June 29,
2014
read June 30,
2014
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20
(NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder
for June 26,
2014
read June 27,
2014
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
for March and
April 2014
&
edited August
15, 2015
Here it comes
– v3
(editing
version 2)
edited January
12, 2014
Here it comes
– v2
January 12,
2014
Here it comes
January 12,
2014
I am not ready
(conversation
by Dean McKenney about his
bad car
accident 40 years ago)
January 12,
2014
an accounting
to God
January 12,
2014
Honor their
walk
Romans
14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible
Study
led by Steve
Curtis
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12,
2014
&
edited August
4, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v8
(editing
version 5)
edited
May 9, 2015
Ten
Years – v2
April
23, 2004
Ten
Years
see
also
-------
edited
January 11, 2014
Mile
Marker 19 – v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile
Marker 19 – v6
(editing
version 3)
-------
edited March
21, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v7
(editing
version 5)
edited
December 3, 2014
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
November 9, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited
October 24, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited
October 11, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap”
edited
February 11, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v9”
edited
January 4, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v8”
(editing
version 5)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v6”
(editing
version 2)
Edited
September 25, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v5”
Edited
August 2, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v4”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v3”
Edited
December 21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v2”
December
21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
latent danger – v3”
December
20, 2012
“A
latent danger – v2”
“A
latent danger”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
frozen trap – v2
December
20, 2012
“A
frozen trap”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“was
the road innocent – v2”
December
21, 2012
“was
the road innocent”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Did
the ice know – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Did
the ice know”
series
of new poems
also
about my father’s death,
after
reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy
Lanes”,
(see
more of his poems at:
and
exchanging emails with him about that poem
and
my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited
August 22, 2013
“eyes
not shut – v2”
August 22,
2013
“eyes not
shut”
a poem in conjured
after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new
poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v3”
editing
the original again
inspired
by reading it at Poets’ Corner
monthly
poetry reading,
at
the Suncook Senior Center
September
10, 2012
&
edited
June 6, 2012 (adding an additional last stanza)
“Mile
Marker 19 – v2”
&
October
2, 2011
Did
You Hear Her Cry
after
rereading earlier poem,
“Mile
Marker 19”
&
Edited April
23, 2013
“No Life in
Your Eyes – v2”
February 11,
2011
“No Life in
Your Eyes”
remembering
the 20th anniversary
of my father’s
death, February 14, 1991
written at the
House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11,
2011
&
new
poem February 11, 2014
Where
you are scattered
posted
March 22, 2004
written
2/26/2001
Adam
Asked
posted
March 18, 2004
written
March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted
March 17, 2004
written
3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The
Submariner
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Home
Again”
&
posted
March 10, 2004
written
April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted
February 14, 2004
(the
13th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written
June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The
Crash
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and
my car accident
the
day I applied to law school
&
posted
February 8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile
Marker 19”
posted
to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as
the 15th poem put on
the site -
about
my father’s fatal car accident
near
Mile Marker 19
on
the Spaulding Turnpike
Rochester,
NH
February
14, 1991 at 7:02pm
Valentine’s
Day
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2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for
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Poetry Where You Live.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Thus Spake Mary Reilly,
Thus Spake Mary Reilly,
“Respondeat Superior, My Ass -
Sue ‘em All”
Sue ‘em
Sue them all damn it
Someone must be to blame
For my pain, my loss
Why shouldn’t I get mine
Right now
Get in there
Fight for me, my due
My advocate
Some charge must stick
Some rule broken,
Negligence,
Don’t clutter up with facts
Start with insurance,
Take the truck, the house,
The pension, carriage house, trailer
My god, the mansion!
Boat. No, both boats
Tanks, everything
Back up the moving vans
Let them contribute.
Raymond A. Foss
September 29, 2001
20:40
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
“Respondeat Superior, My Ass -
Sue ‘em All”
Sue ‘em
Sue them all damn it
Someone must be to blame
For my pain, my loss
Why shouldn’t I get mine
Right now
Get in there
Fight for me, my due
My advocate
Some charge must stick
Some rule broken,
Negligence,
Don’t clutter up with facts
Start with insurance,
Take the truck, the house,
The pension, carriage house, trailer
My god, the mansion!
Boat. No, both boats
Tanks, everything
Back up the moving vans
Let them contribute.
Raymond A. Foss
September 29, 2001
20:40
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Consolidation of Tools in Motion
Was it 12(g) that governed
My studies tonight
Use all my tools now,
Spread before me,
Or lose them later
Black's, text, notebook
Pen, highlighter, laptop
Phone and federal rules
Coffee, Budweiser in a can
Bed, Pillow, desk, stiff chair, lamp
Glasses perched on my nose
Ticking alarm clock chattering
To my left,
Mocking me
Carpenter v. Dee
Complaint and Answer
Breach of warranty
Wrongful death
Dumb defenses
Joinder of parties
Of claims
Motions to dismiss here
Motions there
Surely,
One will stick...
Or not.
Raymond A. Foss
9/18/01 21:30 to 22:15
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
My studies tonight
Use all my tools now,
Spread before me,
Or lose them later
Black's, text, notebook
Pen, highlighter, laptop
Phone and federal rules
Coffee, Budweiser in a can
Bed, Pillow, desk, stiff chair, lamp
Glasses perched on my nose
Ticking alarm clock chattering
To my left,
Mocking me
Carpenter v. Dee
Complaint and Answer
Breach of warranty
Wrongful death
Dumb defenses
Joinder of parties
Of claims
Motions to dismiss here
Motions there
Surely,
One will stick...
Or not.
Raymond A. Foss
9/18/01 21:30 to 22:15
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
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