Poetry Where You Live: 08/20/2023

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

A mission statement - v2

A calling, a purpose, a mission statement,
a weight put on our hearts, to go, to be,
to offer them Jesus, to baptize, to teach,
about our risen Lord and Savior.

A hope, a promise, for all believers,
to repent of our sins, to be transformed within,
to rise from the ashes, to live in abundance,
to cleave to the Spirit, the indwelling of God.

A mission statement, the Great Commission,
the calling of our risen Lord and Savior
to share the Good News, to baptize, to teach,
to offer our faith, our hope, to a hurting world.

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September 3, 2023

Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux

https://reverb.church/pastor/

Reverb Church

Sermon series: Follow Jesus

Sermon 4: “Go… Make Disciples”

Matthew 28:18-20 (The Great Commission)

John 4:1:41 (Woman at the Well)

August 27, 2023

Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux

https://reverb.church/pastor/

Reverb Church

Sermon series: Follow Jesus

Sermon 3: “Pray”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAe2H66Up0g

Matthew 6:5-15 (The Lord’s Prayer)

Edited August 27, 2023

A mission statement – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement-v3.html

Edited August

A mission statement – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement-v2.html

August 21, 2023

A mission statement

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-mission-statement.html

August 20, 2023

Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux

https://reverb.church/pastor/

Reverb Church

Sermon series: Follow Jesus

Sermon 2: “Be Baptized”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_qite52hlg

Acts 8:26-40 (Philip and the Ethiopian)

Matthew 28:18-20 (The Great Commission)

August 15, 2023

Sermon by Pastor Bryan Lamoreux

https://reverb.church/pastor/

Reverb Church

Sermon series: Follow Jesus

Sermon 1: “Repent and Believe”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD32AdtidUc

Luke 7:36-39 (ESV) (Jesus Anointed by a Sinful Woman)

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Poetry, calling, purpose, Christ, Spirit, God, Faith, love, grace, hope, healing, church, joy, The Great Commission,

#poetry #calling #purpose #Christ #God #Spirit #Faith #love #grace #healing #church #mercy #joy #hope #GreatCommission #poem

Monday, August 21, 2023

#Sausage – v4 #hotdog

Forget the frank, the hot dog -
Give me the Fenway sausage.
Lansdowne or Yawkey, just give me the street,
the crowds, the carts, the smells.
Sausage you shrug, you, the reader,
of this trifle, this whimsy -

What do I mean, me the storyteller?
Read on, won’t you please.

Peppers and onions
tease the tongue,
bun and hot mustard
set the stage, the moment,
the scorched and blackened piece of meat
reminds me of every sausage, each one,
I have eaten before.

So much memory,
of family and fun
of ballgames, tailgates, and the carnie;
a cacophony of moments
dripping with grease.
Do you smell it too, sizzling,
on the smoky hot grill?

My lips curl with a smirk
writing these lines
as I laugh to myself
of the pleasures of excess
and the lusty gluttony
of eating. . . another one.

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Edited August 21, 2023

Sausage – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/sausage-v4.html

edited December 28, 2015

Sausage – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/sausage-v3.html

(editing version 2)

Edited September 21, 2012

“Sausage – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/sausage-v2.html

posted February 14, 2004

written May 27, 2001 8:54am

Sausage

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/sausage.html

America, Family, memories, sausage, mustard, New Hampshire, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, taste, smells, Writing Poetry, Red Sox, Yawkey Way, Landsdowne Street, Boston, Fenway Park, hot dog,

#America #Family #memories #sausage #mustard #NH #taste #smells #Poetry #RedSox #RedSoxNation #Boston #FenwayPark @RedSox #writingpoetry

The #Beast is on the prowl, the march

The Beast is on the prowl, the march,
on social media, on the streets, within our hearts,
spreading lies, spewing the bile of hate
mining 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, rising, 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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Edited August 21, 2023

The Beast is on the prowl, the march

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-beast-is-on-prowl-march.html

August 16, 2023

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, Jim Jones, danger, democracy, Trump, cult, arraignment, America, lies, power, threat, Hitler, fascism, Goebbels, poetry, totalitarian, 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

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propaganda, danger, democracy, Trump, cult, America, lies, power, threat, Hitler, fascism, poetry, MAGA, conspiracy, racism, insurrection, God, Satan,

#propaganda #danger #democracy #Trump #cult #America #lies #power #threat #Hitler #fascism #poetry #MAGA #conspiracy #racism #insurrection #God #Satan

Poetry Where You Live

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

A mission statement - v2

Monday, August 21, 2023

A mission statement

#Sausage – v4 #hotdog

Forget the frank, the hot dog -
Give me the Fenway sausage.
Lansdowne or Yawkey, just give me the street,
the crowds, the carts, the smells.
Sausage you shrug, you, the reader,
of this trifle, this whimsy -

The #Beast is on the prowl, the march

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

A mission statement - v2

Monday, August 21, 2023

A mission statement

#Sausage – v4 #hotdog

Forget the frank, the hot dog -Give me the Fenway sausage.Lansdowne or Yawkey, just give me the street, the crowds, the carts, the smells.Sausage you shrug, you, the reader,of this trifle, this whimsy -

The #Beast is on the prowl, the march

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Forget the frank, the hot dog -
Give me the Fenway sausage.
Lansdowne or Yawkey, just give me the street,
the crowds, the carts, the smells.
Sausage you shrug, you, the reader,
of this trifle, this whimsy -