The #Beast on the prowl

The Beast on the prowl, the march,
on social media, within our hearts,
spreading lies, spewing the bile of hate
connecting to our past, our history,
of grievance, of division, of racism and strife.
 
Like poison in our veins, our bodies,
a dark thread in our nation, in truth,
original sin, conquest, subjugation,
power above all else, injustice, race,
a line connecting slavery, the Klan,
Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Dixiecrats…
 
Continuing the thread, the Southern Strategy,
the South rising again, segregation, division,
Civil Rights, hoods giving way to suits, to power,
poison loosed onto the streets, the darkness,
so close to the surface, to boil.
 
Now rage out in the open, marching,
“blood and soil” on their lips, fine people,
brown shirts, red hats, charlatans, propaganda,
different faces of the same coin, the bile,
choking the nation, the body, division,
rising to a crescendo, the present Big Lie.
 

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The Beast on the prowl
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-beast-on-prowl.html

Started August 7, 2023
Edited August 7, 2023
The rise of Hitler – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-rise-of-hitler-v3.html
Edited August 7, 2023
The rise of Hitler – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-rise-of-hitler-v2.html
August 3, 2023
The rise of Hitler
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-rise-of-hitler.html
August 1, 2023
Stanza 1
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1686546442041663488
Stanza 2
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1686547189693120512
July 31, 2023
Responding to post by John Dean
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1686185973531459584
“Your post here speaks to the different gravity of this moment
to the one you covered with Nixon in 1972-1974.
The existential threat to America, to democracy,
to the rule of law, is so much greater.”
July 30, 2023
https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/1685577422237028352
“Anyone who cannot fathom how Hitler got control of Germany
need only look at Trump’s hold on the base of the GOP and
the refusal of GOP leaders who know what is happening
to call out his criminal conduct.”
&
May 18, 2022
You don’t have to touch the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/you-dont-have-to-touch-darkness.html
May 18, 2022 Twitter post by Scott MacFarlane
with link to his Guardian newspaper article
https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1526979188879609856
about Fox News, Tucker Carlson and Great Replacement Theory
&
May 16, 2022
A moment of crisis
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-moment-of-crisis.html
May 16, 2022
stop feeding hate
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/stop-feeding-hate.html
&
May 12, 2022
The cancer rises to the top
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-cancer-rises-to-top.html
subpoenas for House Republican leaders by the January 6^th Committee
&
edited June 10, 2021
Charge him with Sedition – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition-v2.html
June 10, 2021
Charge him with Sedition
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition.html
&
edited July 15, 2021
When Democrats are sitting in prison
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/when-democrats-are-sitting-in-prison.html
July 13, 2021
When the Democrats are sitting in their prison cells
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/when-democrats-are-sitting-in-their.html
&
July 12, 2021
Too much is at stake
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/too-much-is-at-stake.html
&
edited July 12, 2021
Releasing the Kraken, the Lies – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/releasing-kraken-lies-v2.html
July 12, 2021
Releasing the Kraken, the Lies
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/releasing-kraken-lies.html
&
July 11, 2021
Giving Oxygen to the Terror
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/giving-oxygen-to-terror.html
Fox News interviewing Donald Trump,
who called for the name of the police officer
who shot Ashli Babbitt
&
edited/new name July 6, 2021
The Terror will only get louder
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-terror-will-only-get-louder.html
edited July 6, 2021
They are just getting started – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/they-are-just-getting-started-v2.html
July 6, 2021
They are just getting started
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/they-are-just-getting-started.html
edited July 5, 2021
Where are the Insurrectionists Plotting – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/where-are-insurrectionists-plotting-v2.html
edited July 5, 2021
What are the Insurrectionists Doing – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-are-insurrectionists-doing-v2.html
July 5, 2021
Where are the Insurrectionist Plotting
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/where-are-iinsurrectionists-plotting.html
July 5, 2021
What are the Insurrectionists Doing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-are-insurrectionists-doing.html
edited July 4, 2021
an idea, a dream – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/an-idea-dream-v2.html
July 4, 2021
an idea, a dream
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/an-idea-dream.html
July 4, 2021 Twitter post
https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/1411680299872837635
by The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.
about slavery and subjugation of native people
at the time of the Declaration of Independence
&
Smithsonian article:
A Nation's Story: ”What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/nations-story-%E2%80%9Cwhat-slave-fourth-july%E2%80%9D
Frederick Douglass speech 7/4/1852
"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html
&
edited July 4, 2021
We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america_4.html
edited July 3, 2021
We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america_3.html
edited July 3, 2021
We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america.html
June 29, 2021
We must fight for the dream, the idea of America
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america.html
June 29, 2021
We must fight for this country
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-fight-for-this-country.html
June 29, 2021
We must not despair, we must not be despondent
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-not-despair-we-must-not-be.html
June 29, 2021
We can have hope – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-can-have-hope-2.html
edited June 29, 2021
The threat is real – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-threat-is-real-v2.html
edited June 28, 2021
We are under attack – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-under-attack-v2.html
June 28, 2021
We are under attack
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-under-attack.html
edited June 28, 2021
Repeating the Big Lie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/repeating-big-lie-v2.html
June 28, 2021
Repeating the Big Lie
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/repeating-big-lie.html
June 28, 2021
The threat is real
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-threat-is-real.html
edited/ new name June 28, 2021
The Lie is pernicious, divisive
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-lie-is-pernicious-divisive.html
June 28, 2021
The Lie is pernicious
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-lie-is-pernicious.html
 
merged/ edited June 27, 2021
The Insurrection never stopped – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v4.html
edited/new name June 27, 2021
We are still under attack
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-still-under-attack.html
June 25, 2021
We remain under attack
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-remain-under-attack.html
&
edited June 10, 2021
Charge him with Sedition – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition-v2.html
June 10, 2021
Charge him with Sedition
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition.html
&
Edited May 30, 2021
The Insurrection never stopped – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v3.html
Edited May 29, 2021
The Insurrection never stopped – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v2.html
edited/new name May 29, 2021
The Insurrection never stopped
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped.html
edited May 28, 2021
The Insurrection continues – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-continues-v2.html
adding stanza 2
May 28, 2021
The Insurrection continues
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/insurrection-continues.html
May 28, 2021
Minority Rule
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/minority-rule.html
edited May 28, 2021
The Filibuster - v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster-v3.html
edited May 27, 2021
The Filibuster - v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster-v2.html
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1398055841593446403
May 27, 2021
The Filibuster
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster.html
my reply to Dan Rather
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1398014947683078147
Dan Rather response to Senator Manchin
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1398000381897150484
Tweet by Senator Joe Manchin
https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1397911553836474369
Connecticut Compromise, Great Compromise
House, Senate, representation
&
February 13, 2021
the faithful brownshirts
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-faithful-brownshirts.html
February 7, 2021
as darkness fell on the Capitol
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/darkness-fell-on-capitol-in-broad.html
edited February 3, 2021
For the sake of Democracy - v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-sake-of-democracy-v2.html
February 1, 2021
For the sake of Democracy
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-sake-of-democracy.html
 
poetry, House, Senate, compromise, GOP, minority, majority, McConnell, democracy, insurrection, filibuster, obstruction,
 
#poetry #filibuster #obstruction #House #Senate #compromise #GOP #minority #majority #McConnell #democracy #insurrection
 
poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, trials, impeachment, arrest, Capitol riots, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, unity, comity, bipartisanship,
 
#poem #poetry #democracy #America #UnitedStates #trials #impeachment #arrest #CapitolRiots #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #unity #comity #bipartisanship #election #lies #power
 
#ImpeachmentTrial #poem #poetry @LeaderMcConnell @SenateGOP #democracy #CapitolRiot #insurrection #History #trial
 
 
poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, justice, July 4th, 4th of July, Independence Day, freedom, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness,
 
#poetry #democracy #America #life #liberty #pursuitofhappiness #IndependenceDay #July4th #July4 #DeclarationofIndependence
 
poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, Capitol riots, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, Fox News,
 
#poetry #democracy #America #CapitolRiots #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #election #lies #power #conspiracy #FoxNews
 
poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, Capitol riot, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, Fox News, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Kraken,
 
#poetry #democracy #America #CapitolRiot #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #election #lies #Trump #conspiracy #FoxNews #Powell #Wood #Kraken
 
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poetry, crime, sedition, insurrection, capitol riot, conspiracy, democracy, Trump, constitution, law, treason,
 
#poetry #crime #sedition #insurrection #capitolriot #conspiracy #democracy #Trump #constitution #law #treason #ChargeTrumpNow
 
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poetry, January 6^th, January 6^th Committee, insurrection, sedition, subpoena,
 
#poetry #January6th #January6thCommittee #insurrection #Sedition #subpoena
 
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poetry, Buffalo Massacre, BLM, white supremacy, racism, hate, terrorism,
 
#poetry #BuffaloMassacre #blm #whitesupremacy #racism #hate #terrorism
 
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poetry, Tucker Carlson, Great Replacement Theory, racism, white supremacy, hate, terrorism, Buffalo Massacre, Fox News, Scott MacFarlane,
 
#poetry #TuckerCarlson #GreatReplacementTheory #racism #whitesupremacy #hate #terrorism #BuffaloMassacre #FoxNews #ScottMacFarlane
 
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propaganda, dictator, Mussolini, danger, democracy, Trump, cult, arraignment, America, lies, power, threat, Hitler, fascism, Goebbels, poetry, MAGA, conspiracy, racism, insurrection,
 
#propaganda #dictator #Mussolini #JimJones #danger #democracy #Trump #cult #arraignment #America #lies #power #threat #Hitler #fascism #Goebbels #poetry #totalitarian #MAGA #conspiracy #racism #insurrection
 

Focusing on one wave – v2

Noise, cacophony, a cadence,
successive waves building, crashing,
seemingly jealous, diluting the moment, the power,
the majesty, of each wave at its breaking.
 
Still, silent, focusing on one wave,
each one in succession, striving,
concentrating my attention, my hearing
to the mystery hidden, revealed, within.
 
Listening more deeply, more surely,
for the story in their merging, their receding,
a gift of the vast ocean to the shoreline
a touching, a caress, a prayer within each one…

https://www.facebook.com/792593002/videos/630421232183869/

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Edited August 16, 2023
Focusing on one wave – v2
 
Drafted August 14, 2023
after comments by Jolan Gamblin
(still not sure about stanza 1)
Merged July 24, 2023
Almost silent over the sand – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand-v6.html
July 24, 2023
Focusing on one wave
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/focusing-on-one-wave.html
Edited July 24, 2023
Almost silent over the sand – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand-v5.html
Edited July 19, 2023
Almost silent over the sand – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand-v4.html
Edited July 18, 2023
Almost silent over the sand – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand-v3.html
Edited July 17, 2023
Almost silent over the sand – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand-v2.html
July 17, 2023
Almost silent over the sand
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/almost-silent-over-sand.html
Edited July 17, 2023
what did the waves say (sing) to you – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/what-did-waves-say-sing-to-you-v2.html
&
Edited July 3, 2023
By the pull of the moon changing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/by-pull-of-moon-changing.html
Edited July 2, 2023
By the pull of the moon – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-wild-within-revealed-by-pull-of.html
July 2, 2023
By the pull of the moon
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/by-pull-of-moon.html
Edited July 2, 2023
Within each of us present – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/within-each-of-us-present-v2.html
July 2, 2023
Within each of us present
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/within-each-of-us-present.html
Edited July 2, 2023
A dolphin in the world – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-dolphin-in-world-v2.html
July 2, 2023
A dolphin in the world
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-dolphin-in-world.html
&
Edited June 30, 2023
Ascending, Emerging, Igniting – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting-v5.html
Edited June 28, 2023
Ascending, Emerging, Igniting - v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting-v4_30.html
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting-v4.html
Adding first stanza to provide backstory to board/painting
&
Edited June 26, 2023
Ascending, Emerging, Igniting – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting-v3.html
Edited June 26, 2023
Ascending, emerging, igniting – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting-v2.html
Edited June 26, 2023
shadows on the beach – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/shadows-on-beach-v2.html
Edited June 26, 2023
Saying Good Night to the Ocean – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/saying-good-night-to-ocean-v3.html
&
June 24, 2023
shadows on the beach
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/shadows-on-beach.html
&
Edited June 23, 2023
Saying Good Night to the Ocean – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/saying-good-night-to-ocean-v2.html
&
June 23, 2023
Ascending, emerging, igniting
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/ascending-emerging-igniting.html
&
June 23, 2023
Saying Good Night to the Ocean
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/saying-good-night-to-ocean.html
&
Edited June 18, 2023
Overlords of Pangea – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/overlords-of-pangea-v2.html
Edited June 18, 2023
A Man of War – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-man-of-war-v2.html
June 17, 2023
A Man of War
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/a-man-of-war.html
&
June 15, 2023
Overlords of Pangea
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/overlords-of-pangea.html
&
Edited June 12, 2023
Creatures of Sea, of Land – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/creatures-of-sea-of-land-v2.html
Edited June 11, 2023
Land and Sea and Sky – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/land-and-sea-and-sky-v2.html
June 9, 2023
Land and Sea and Sky
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/land-and-sea-and-sky.html
&
Edited June 8, 2023
The thin space between land and water – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-thin-space-between-land-and-water-v3.html
Edited June 7, 2023
The thin space between land and water – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-thin-space-between-land-and-water-v2.html
June 6, 2023
The thin space between land and water
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-thin-space-between-land-and-water.html
June 5, 2023
Creatures of Sea, of Land
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/creatures-of-sea-of-land.html
Edited June 5, 2023
Longing for the sea – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/longing-for-sea-v2.html
June 1, 2023
Longing for the sea
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/longing-for-sea.html
Edited June 1, 2023
Creatures of spirit, of earth – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/06/creatures-of-spirit-of-earth-v2.html
May 29, 2023
creatures of spirit, of earth
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/creatures-of-spirit-of-earth.html
Edited May 29, 2023
Citizens of this soil – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/citizens-of-this-soil-v2.html
May 28, 2023
Citizens of this soil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/citizens-of-this-soil.html
&
Edited May 28, 2023
Drawn to the Water’s edge – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/drawn-to-waters-edge-v4.html
Edited May 27, 2023
Drawn to the water's edge - v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/drawn-to-eaters-edge-v3.html
Edited May 27, 2023
Drawn to the water's edge - V2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/drawn-to-waters-edge-v2.html
May 24, 2023
Drawn to the water’s edge
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/drawn-to-waters-edge.html
Start of poems based on conversation with Howard Hopper
about connection to the water seen in “The tide at sunset” poems
and my earlier poems that included “light beings, water creatures”
&
April 10, 2022
We are all spirit, breath
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/we-are-all-spirit-breath.html
written after listening to the
2016 On Being interview
with Eugene Peterson
https://onbeing.org/programs/eugene-peterson-answering-god/,
rebroadcast April 7, 2022
&
edited April 28, 2018
light bodies interwoven – v10
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/04/light-bodies-interwoven-v10.html
(editing version 9)
edited April 28, 2018
a form of water – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-form-of-water-v4.html
&
Edited May 23, 2023
The tide at sunset – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tide-at-sunset-v3.html
May 22, 2023
Shell Beach
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/shell-beach.html
Edited May 22, 2023
The tide at sunset – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tide-at-sunset-v2.html
May 22, 2023
Treasure in the sand
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/treasure-in-sand.html
May 22, 2023
The tide at sunset
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-tide-at-sunset.html
May 22, 2023
Sunset nigh
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/sunset-nigh.html
May 22, 2023
Before the light fades further
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/before-light-fades-further.html
May 22, 2023
A castle no more
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/a-castle-no-more.html
May 21, 2023
Striving onto our beach
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/05/striving-onto-our-beach.html
&
Edited July 26, 2022
onto the beach – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/onto-beach-v2.html
July 23, 2022
onto the beach
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/onto-beach.html
July 21, 2022
returning home - 3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/returning-home.html
July 17, 2022 6:34am
St. Augustine Beach
just north of 10^th St.
St. Augustine Beach, FL
&
October 10, 2021
Crossing the plane of the dunes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes.html
&
edited October 26, 2021
Dinosaur Spines – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/dinosaur-spines-v2.html
edited/new name October 26, 2021
Dinosaur Spines
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/dinosaur-spines.html
October 26, 2021
Wings of the earth-bound angels
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/wings-of-earth-bound-angels.html
October 26, 2021
spines of the palms
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/spines-of-palms.html
edited October 24, 2021
the darkened beach – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-darkened-beach-v2.html
edited October 24, 2021
Crossing the plane of the dunes – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes-v2.html
October 13, 2021
the darkened beach
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-darkened-beach.html
October 10, 2021
Crossing the plane of the dunes
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/crossing-plane-of-dunes.html
edited October 23, 2021
The Dance of the Pelicans – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v5.html
adding stanza 1
edited October 22, 2021
the dance of the pelicans – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v4.html
edited October 21, 2021
the dance of the pelicans – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v3.html 
merged October 21, 2021
another pelican morning – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-pelican-morning-v2.html
edited October 14, 2021
the dance of the pelicans – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans-v2.html
October 14, 2021
the dance of the pelicans
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-dance-of-pelicans.html
October 10, 2021
another pelican morning
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/10/another-pelican-morning.html
&
edited March 21, 2021
Beach Sand – v7
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/beach-sand-v7.html
editing version 6
edited July 30, 2015
Beach Sand – v6
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/07/beach-sand-v6.html
(editing version 5)
edited April 2, 2014
Beach Sand – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/04/beach-sand-v5.html
Edited September 20, 2012
Beach Sand – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/beach-sand-v4.html
edited March 5, 2012
Beach Sand – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/03/beach-sand-v3.html
edited September 29, 2010
Beach Sand – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/09/beach-sand-v2.html
&
email May 115, 2008
“I am in eighth grade and I am doing a school
research project called a zine.  In this zine,
it is basically about describing your passion. 
One of the requirements for the zine is putting
a poem in, and explaining your reaction to the poem. 
My passion is Cape Cod, and I chose the poem you wrote, 
Beach Sand,  I love how you described sand in this poem. 
I just had a few questions like,
why did you choose to write this poem?
My response May 16, 2008::
“Funny you should ask. Someone from North Carolina
two days ago asked if they could put this same poem
on a new web site. As I told them, I had written in in 2006,
on the same day as quite a few other poems. I was writing
then specifically about treasured memories of my childhood
and more recent too. I wrote this poem about my joy at the beach.
I am from Westfield, MA growing up and my family would go to
the Cape or up the Maine coast to like Wells Beach or York
many summers when I was a kid. My grandparents on my dad's
side had gone to Old Orchard Beach for summers when my dad
was a kid and they were there on Cape Cod when I was a kid.
In 1988 I went to Hilton Head Island for a week. And in the
mid-1990's I went for like 3 or 4 summers in a row to
Martha's Vineyard. From 1978 to 2001, I lived near
the University of New Hampshire near the seacoast of
New Hampshire. I spent time at Rye Beach, Hampton,
and Great Island Common in New Castle. I just really like
walking the beach, more than just laying sunbathing.
I would walk along the shore looking for beach glass
or go over to the rocks and look for what I could find
in the tide pools. I've included three other poems about
being near the sea, Shoals, Tide Pools, and Tides - Haiku.”
&
July 15, 2006 19:03
Beach Sand
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/03/beach-sand.html
edited April 28, 2018
a form of water – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-form-of-water-v3.html
Edited August 15, 2013
“A form of water – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-form-of-water-v2.html
January 19, 2013
new poem, “A form of water”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/a-form-of-water.html
January 19, 2013
new poem, “Water beings, Light creatures”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/water-beings-light-creatures.html
edited August 11, 2015
Water Beings – v6
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/water-beings-v6.html
(editing version 4)
October 2, 2014
a document of meaning
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-document-of-meaning.html
inspired in part by Diana Butler Bass
https://www.facebook.com/Diana.Butler.Bass
post October 2, 2014
https://www.facebook.com/Diana.Butler.Bass/posts/10152515147848500
“Life really does weave a fabric of meaning with the threads of experience.”
&
edited April 4, 2014
“Water Beings – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/04/water-beings-v5.html
(editing version 3)
edited April 4, 2014
“Water Beings – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/04/water-beings-v4.html
(editing version 2)
Edited January 19, 2013
“Water Beings – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/water-beings-v2.html
January 18, 2013
new poem, “Water Beings”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/01/water-beings.html
based on Quote entitled, “Water”,
by Jean Dorst, 1990
see quote embedded within the editorial review of the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Pond-Lake-River-Maryjo-Series/dp/0765107600
within the book, “Pond Lake River Sea”,
by Maryjo Koch
http://books.google.com/books/about/Pond_Lake_River_Sea.html?id=EyENAAAACAAJ
read during a break
while substitute teaching
Three Rivers School
Pembroke, NH
January 18, 2013
&
edited March 21, 2014
“light bodies interwoven – v9”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/light-bodies-interwoven-v9.html
(editing version 3)
Edited November 30, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v8”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-bodies-interwoven-v8.html
(editing version 3)
Edited November 30, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v7”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-bodies-interwoven-v7.html
(editing version 2)
Edited August 15, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v6”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v6.html
Edited August 15, 2013
“not easily broken – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/not-easily-broken-v2.html
Edited February 4, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/02/light-bodies-interwoven-v5.html
Edited August 17, 2012
edited poem, “light bodies interwoven – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v4.html
edited March 21, 2014
“light bodies interwoven – v9”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/03/light-bodies-interwoven-v9.html
(editing version 3)
Edited November 30, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v8”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-bodies-interwoven-v8.html
(editing version 3)
Edited November 30, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v7”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/light-bodies-interwoven-v7.html
(editing version 2)
Edited August 15, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v6”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v6.html
Edited August 15, 2013
“not easily broken – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/not-easily-broken-v2.html
Edited February 4, 2013
“light bodies interwoven – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/02/light-bodies-interwoven-v5.html
Edited August 17, 2012
edited poem, “light bodies interwoven – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v4.html
Edited August 15, 2012
edited poem, “light bodies interwoven – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v3.html
Edited August 14, 2012
edited poem “light bodies interwoven – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/light-bodies-interwoven-v2.html
Edited August 14, 2012
new poem “not easily broken”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/not-easily-broken.html
Edited August 14, 2012
new poem “light bodies interwoven”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/light-bodies-interwoven.html
Edited August 14, 2012
new poem “threads of light – 2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/threads-of-light-2.html
Edited August 14, 2012
new poem, “a body of light”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-body-of-light.html
Edited August 8, 2012
new poem in response, “the bond stronger”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-bond-stronger.html
Edited August 8, 2012
new poem, “filaments of light”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/filaments-of-light.html
Edited August 8, 2012
new poem, “fibers of light”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/fibers-of-light.html
edited August 8, 2012
new poem, “glowing threads”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/glowing-threads.html
Edited August 8, 2012
new poem, “threads of light”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/threads-of-light.html
Edited August 7, 2012
new poem, “threads forged together”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/threads-forged-together.html
Edited August 7, 2012
new poem, “threads of the cord”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/threads-of-cord.html
Edited August 7, 2012
new poem – “from filaments of spun glass”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/from-filaments-of-spun-glass.html
Edited August 7, 2012
“A cord is woven – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-cord-is-woven-v3.html
Edited August 7, 2012
“A cord is woven – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-cord-is-woven-v2.html
Edited August 7, 2012
new poem, “A cord is woven”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-cord-is-woven.html
Edited August 7, 2012
new poem, “A bond is forged”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-bond-is-forged.html
Edited August 7, 2012
“A cord is forged – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-cord-is-forged-v2.html
August 7, 2012
“A cord is forged”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-cord-is-forged.html
&
Seventh of a worship series on:
“Cruising the Sacred Waters of Our Faith”
Theme – Fellowship
John 15:12-17 (Common English Bible)
Ecclesiastes 4:9-11 (Common English Bible)
1 John 4:7-11 (Common English Bible)
Call to Worship (Abington Worship 2012)
(John 6:35)
Unison Prayer (Abington Worship 2012)
Pastoral Prayer by Pastor Ruth Foss
Reception of New Members
(Acts 2:42, 46-47; Philippians 1:3-6, 9-11)
Prayer of Dedication (John 6:24-35)
Hymn – “You Who Are Thirsty” (TFWS #2132)
(Isaiah 55:1, Matthew 5:6, 11-28)
Hymn – “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” (TFWS #2233)
(John 13:34-35; Ephesians 4:4-6)
Communion
Message for children
by Pastor Ruth Foss
and sermon – “All You Need Is Love. . . ”
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
8AM Live
https://8amlive.wordpress.com/
meditation blog
http://pstrfoss.wordpress.com/
“God’s Whisper” blog
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
August 5, 2012
Tenth Sunday of Kingdomtide
May 18, 2022
what did the waves say (sing) to you
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-did-waves-say-sing-to-you.html
May 18, 2022
Can you hear the song of the creatures
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/can-you-hear-song-of-creatures.html
May 18, 2022
the whisper of the mosses
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-whisper-of-mosses.html
edited May 18, 2022
cries of the sky above us – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/cries-of-sky-above-us-v2.html
May 18, 2022
cries of the sky above us
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/cries-of-sky-above-us.html
May 18, 2022
nature loves us back
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/nature-loves-us-back.html
May 17, 2022
The sentience of the woodlands
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-sentience-of-woodlands.html
edited May 17, 2022
What is nature trying to tell us – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-is-nature-trying-to-tell-us-v2.html
adding second stanza
&
May 16, 2022
Of course the solution is water, hydrogen
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6437456/6512516252340684924
April 20, 2022
PBS Newshour piece by Miles O’Brien
“Could hydrogen be the clean fuel of the future?”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/could-hydrogen-be-the-clean-fuel-of-the-future
&
May 16, 2022
What is nature trying to tell us
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/what-is-nature-trying-to-tell-us.html
listened May 15, 2022
May 12, 2022 (original broadcast 2016)
On Being with Krista Tippett
Robin Wall Kimmerer
“The Intelligence of Plants”
https://onbeing.org/programs/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-intelligence-of-plants-2022/
&
edited April 10, 2022
We are all spirit, breath – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/we-are-all-spirit-breath-v2.html
April 10, 2022
We are all spirit, breath
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/we-are-all-spirit-breath.html
written after listening to the
2016 On Being interview
with Eugene Peterson
https://onbeing.org/programs/eugene-peterson-answering-god/,
rebroadcast April 7, 2022
 
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.
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#poetry #God #pelicans #Florida #sunrise #sunset #sand #dunes #StAugustine #Chautauqua #creation
 
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poetry, God, Spirit, St. Augustine, beach, water, dunes, sand, peace, Zen, sunrise, home,
 
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Poetry, poetry community, St Augustine Beach, St Augustine, FL, beach, water, sand, writers lift, shells, seashells,
 
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