Perfectly shattered - v2

A gift from the sea, broken treasure,
as if a bolt of lightning passed through them
disturbing their atoms, their essence,
the essential nature of them,
cracked beyond repair.
 
Perfectly shattered,
cracked but held together,
the shells wrapped in paper
perched on my cluttered desktop
waiting to be revealed.

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Edited March 4, 2023
Perfectly shattered – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/perfectly-shattered-v2.html
March 3, 2023
Perfectly shattered
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/perfectly-shattered.html

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Nature, poetry Twitter, beauty, shells, poetry community, beach, poetry,

 

#poetry #shells #beach #nature #beauty #poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter

Perfectly shattered

As if a bolt of lightning passed through them
disturbing their atoms, their essence,
the essential nature of them,
cracked beyond repairs
Perfectly shattered
the shells wrapped in paper
perched on my cluttered desktop.
 

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Edited March 4, 2023

Perfectly shattered – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/perfectly-shattered-v2.html

March 3, 2023

Perfectly shattered

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/perfectly-shattered.html

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Nature, poetry Twitter, beauty, shells, poetry community, beach, poetry,

 

#poetry #shells #beach #nature #beauty #poetrycommunity #poetrytwitter

they are no longer there

We have driven away the egrets, the ibis,
the storks, the great blue herons,
humans have destroyed the water, the wild place,
the space beside the road.
 
For many months I have seen them
by the water, by the road,
on the way to work and home again
but they are no longer there.
 
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March 2, 2023

they are no longer there

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/03/they-are-no-longer-there.html

Edited February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold-v2.html

Edited/ merged February 27, 2023

By the side of the road I travel – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel-v2.html

&

February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold.html

learned that this spot is near the former home of William Lindsey’s mother

and adjacent to where he dumped the body of Lisa Foley,

his first serial murder victim

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lindsey-william-darrell.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darrell_Lindsey

&

February 26, 2023

By the side of the road I travel

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel.html 

West Pope Road

&

Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

 

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, wetlands, swamp, birds, development, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #wetlands #swamp #birds #StAugustine #Florida

 

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Poetry, nature, marsh, murder, bodies, evidence, secrets, William Lindsey, serial murder,

 

#poetry #nature #marsh #murder #bodies #secrets #WilliamLindsey #evidence #serialmurder

 

The trees on fire – v3

Coming around the corner,
a familiar way I travel,
a back way home
after a long day,
So ready to return,
to be at peace, at rest.
 
Anticipating this moment
A recurring bit of beauty, of nature,
The trees on fire, aglow,
the pines lit from behind, below,
Oranges and yellows competing
in meter and rhyme.
 
Light bursting forth
through the layers of trees
in planes of living space
Screens, living curtains,
successive clusters of pines
drawing me ever toward home.

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Edited February 28, 2023

The trees on fire – v3

 

Edited February 25, 2023

The trees on fire – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-trees-on-fire-v2.html

February 24, 2023

The trees on fire

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-trees-on-fire.html

From Wildwood to Brinkhoff to Aventurine

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, sun, sky, sunset, pine, color, nature, driving, trees, planes of space,

 

#poetry #sun #sky #sunset #pine #color #nature #driving #trees

betray him – v3

A moment, forever,
“One of you will betray me;”
Stopped short by these words of Jesus
the unimaginable, such pain.
 
How could we betray Him?
This is our Lord, our Teacher
the loving Master we follow;
How could any one of us betray Him?
 
Christ is the way to life.
 
=====

Edited February 27, 2023

betray him – v3

 

edited March 2, 2015

betray him – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/betray-him-v2.html

February 27, 2015

betray him

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/02/betray-him.html

February 27, 2015

one of you

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/02/one-of-you.html

Mark 14:14:18

Mark 14:12, 22-25

Lenten book study:

Chapter 1. “The Last Supper”

24 Hours That Changed the World

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=833652

http://www.abingdonpress.com/product/9780687465552#.VOzkaHzF9gg

by Reverend Adam Hamilton

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/bookstore.aspx?contributorid=3827

http://www.facebook.com/RevAdamHamilton

https://twitter.com/RevAdamHamilton

Spirit study led by Pastor Ruth Foss

https://twitter.com/PastorRuthFoss

http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss

http://www.pstruthsermons.blogspot.com

sermon blog

http://www.pstrruthfoss.blogspot.com

meditation blog

http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/

“God’s Whisper” blog

Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church

Patten, ME

other books by Rev. Hamilton studied in Spirit Study groups -

Not A Silent Night

http://www.adamhamilton.org/store/9781426771842#.VGp1BTTF9gg

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/DynamicContent.aspx?id=276&pageid=1808

&

The Way: Walking in the Footsteps of Jesus

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=1104578

&        

“Final Words from the Cross”

http://www.cokesbury.com/forms/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=9781426746802

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, Christ, Faith, God, grace, love, Spirit, Pastor Ruth Foss, Adam Hamilton, Lent, cross, Good Friday, Jerusalem, Last Supper, Passover, Seder, Eucharist, Communion, Maundy Thursday, sacrifice,

 

#poetry #Faith #God #grace #love #Christ #Messiah #Savior #cross #Lent #GoodFriday #LastSupper #Passover #Eucharist #Seder #communion #MaundyThursday

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

What secrets do these waters hold,
what stories could they tell us;
Are there other secrets buried here,
in these silent murky waters?
 
Wild is this place, full of black water,
touching ancient evil, evidence of his rage;
How long have these secrets been forgotten,
drenched, but hidden in plain sight?
 
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Edited February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

 

Edited/ merged February 27, 2023

By the side of the road I travel – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel-v2.html

&

February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold.html

learned that this spot is near the former home of William Lindsey’s mother

and adjacent to where he dumped the body of Lisa Foley,

his first serial murder victim

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lindsey-william-darrell.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darrell_Lindsey

&

February 26, 2023

By the side of the road I travel

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel.html 

West Pope Road

&

Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

 

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, wetlands, swamp, birds, development, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #wetlands #swamp #birds #StAugustine #Florida

 

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Poetry, nature, marsh, murder, bodies, evidence, secrets, William Lindsey, serial murder,

 

#poetry #nature #marsh #murder #bodies #secrets #WilliamLindsey #evidence #serialmurder

 

By the side of the road I travel – v2

By the side of the road I travel
a bit of wilderness, wildness,
a swamp contained but present
near the city, the urban sprawl.
 
What secrets do these waters hold,
what stories could they tell;
Are there other secrets buried here,
in the silent murky water?
 
A man-made pond behind them,
encroached on the east and west,
a ribbon of sidewalk before these wetlands
a road that I travel to work and back home again
connecting to the main drag.
 
Wild is this place, full of black water,
touching ancient evil, evidence;
How long have these secrets been forgotten,
drenched, but hidden in plain sight.
 
Water birds are so often present, fishing these waters,
sometimes watching the contractors near them
bringing people, housing, ever closer,
but the deer stalk this road each night.
 
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Edited February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold-v2.html

Edited/ merged February 27, 2023

By the side of the road I travel – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel-v2.html

&

February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold.html

learned that this spot is near the former home of William Lindsey’s mother

and adjacent to where he dumped the body of Lisa Foley,

his first serial murder victim

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lindsey-william-darrell.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darrell_Lindsey

&

February 26, 2023

By the side of the road I travel

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel.html 

West Pope Road

&

Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

 

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, wetlands, swamp, birds, development, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #wetlands #swamp #birds #StAugustine #Florida

 

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Poetry, nature, marsh, murder, bodies, evidence, secrets, William Lindsey, serial murder,

 

#poetry #nature #marsh #murder #bodies #secrets #WilliamLindsey #evidence #serialmurder

 

What secrets do these waters hold

What secrets do these waters hold,
What stories could they tell,
Are there other victims buried here,
In the murky water?
 
Wild is this place, full of black water,
Touching ancient evil, murder,
Not so long forgotten, drenched,
But hidden in plain sight.
 

---------------

Edited February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold-v2.html

Edited/ merged February 27, 2023

By the side of the road I travel – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel-v2.html

&

February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold.html

learned that this spot is near the former home of William Lindsey’s mother

and adjacent to where he dumped the body of Lisa Foley,

his first serial murder victim

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lindsey-william-darrell.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darrell_Lindsey

&

February 26, 2023

By the side of the road I travel

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel.html 

West Pope Road

&

Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

 

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, wetlands, swamp, birds, development, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #wetlands #swamp #birds #StAugustine #Florida

 

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Poetry, nature, marsh, murder, bodies, evidence, secrets, William Lindsey, serial murder,

 

#poetry #nature #marsh #murder #bodies #secrets #WilliamLindsey #evidence #serialmurder

 

By the side of the road I travel

By the side of the road I travel
a bit of wilderness, wildness,
a swamp contained but present
by the city, the urban sprawl.
 
A man-made pond behind them,
encroached on the right and left,
a ribbon of sidewalk before these wetlands
a road that I travel to work and back home again
connecting to the main road.
 
Water birds are so often present, fishing these waters,
sometimes watching the contractors near them
bringing people, housing, ever closer,
but the deer still walk this road each night.

 
 

---------------

Edited February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold-v2.html

Edited/ merged February 27, 2023

By the side of the road I travel – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel-v2.html

&

February 27, 2023

What secrets do these waters hold

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/what-secrets-do-these-waters-hold.html

learned that this spot is near the former home of William Lindsey’s mother

and adjacent to where he dumped the body of Lisa Foley,

his first serial murder victim

https://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lindsey-william-darrell.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Darrell_Lindsey

&

February 26, 2023

By the side of the road I travel

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/by-side-of-road-i-travel.html 

West Pope Road

&

Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

 

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, wetlands, swamp, birds, development, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #wetlands #swamp #birds #StAugustine #Florida

 

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Poetry, nature, marsh, murder, bodies, evidence, secrets, William Lindsey, serial murder,

 

#poetry #nature #marsh #murder #bodies #secrets #WilliamLindsey #evidence #serialmurder

 

Liquid mud flats - v2

Crossing over the causeway, looking far below,
seeing the tidal motion, the turning,
the sunlit water, the in-between times,
the changes, the moving in and out.
 
Liquid mud flats, growing, glowing in the sun,
just outside the channels, the waters,
the languid, the speeding, boats in the intercoastal
showing the changes for a moment in time.
 
A liquid slurry, drying, between the rushes,
the tidal vegetation, the sea birds in flight,
maybe a boat at rest, at anchor,
chronically the time slowly going by.
 
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Edited February 26, 2023

Liquid mud flats – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats-v2.html

February 24, 2023

Liquid mud flats

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/liquid-mud-flats.html

Crossing the 312 bridge

Between Anastasia Island and the mainland,

St. Augustine Beach to St. Augustine, FL.

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

Poetry, driving, nature, water, tides, tidal, intercoastal, mud flats, rushes, moon, St. Augustine, Florida,

 

#Poetry #driving #nature #water #tides #tidal #intercoastal #mudflats #rushes #moon #StAugustine #Florida

Help me to cleave to You, Jesus

Help me to cleave to You, Jesus,
for my comfort, for my peace;
Help me to fall into scripture
as I did by habit, by choice.
 
Help me to cleave to You, Jesus,
as my Lord, as my Savior;
All I am is within You,
my Master and my first love.
 
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February 26, 2023

Help me to cleave to You, Jesus

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/02/help-me-to-cleave-to-you-jesus.html

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

poetry, prayer, scriptures, Faith, discipline, Lent, God, Christ,

 

#poetry #God #Christ #faith #discipline #scripture