Bar - relief

I passed!!

NH Bar

Twelve hours and counting to find out the Bar results.

Vernal Pool

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/types/vernal.html, http://www.vernalpool.org/

Ah, now I can support
The project, the building
The school, the purchase, the land

A vernal pool
Rated X, amphibians
Frog, peeper, salamander
Spring sex and land around the pond
the space, the classes,

Middle school hormones and
vertebrates and invertebrates
Conservation Commission
Another Interest group
On board


Written about the excitement that the Barrington Conservation Commission members had at finding out in 2000 that the site the School District planned to buy and use for a new middle school had a vernal pool on the property. In the summer it wasn't much to get excited about; but, hey, everybody's get their thing. They became supporters of the project. The building was dedicated recently - see http://www.barrington.k12.nh.us/MiddleSchool/Middle.html.


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Gossamer Bags

Gossamer bags
Clutched in the treetops
Drink the morning dew
Glisten in the early light
Tent caterpillar homes, now vacant

Framing, capturing the sun,
High in the trees,
The valley, by the highway
I drive each day
Organic, translucent plastic bags
Coleman mantles
Glowing in the branches


9/20/04 19:41


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When the Belle Rings

Belle - Thanks for your comment on September 4th and for your site. It makes the web richer.

Check out her profile at http://www.blogger.com/profile/4578288 and check out her page at When the Belle Rings - http://whenthebellerings.blogspot.com/. Absolutely beautiful language and imagery. Added to my links as well.

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.

Tilling in the Field

A motorized voyeur
Driving down the road
By the farm
At the cusp of autumn

A figure toiling in the field, the Garden
In the curtilage of the house and barn
Whiling away a Sunday morning
Movement and color catch the eye
Of the passerby

Blue polar fleece against the cornhusks
And fall’s palette
A hoe cutting the sod and
unwelcome adult weeds

Knowledge of the work, the sweat
The toiling, throughout our lives
Until we return to the dust
From which we came.


9/19/04 14:25 - inspired by a drive on Rte 103 in Bradford, NH this morning and reading about the Fall this afternoon.

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.