Bent of Hegemony

Bent on Hegemony,
A one-state solution,
Propping up the enemy,
Granting them power,
The ability to infiltrate
The civilian population,
To plant seeds of rebellion,
Martyrdom, festering to a boil...
 
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August 25, 2024
Bent on Hegemony
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/bent-of-hegemony.html
Edited June 18, 2024
Trapped in the cage of Rafah – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/06/trapped-in-cage-of-rafah-v2.html
Edited March 15, 2024
Buried under Rafah – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/buried-under-rafah-v3.html
On Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu’s
decision to attack Hamas in Rafah
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Edited February 17, 2024
Forced into a corner – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/forced-into-corner-v2.html
February 14, 2024
Gathered into the pen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/gathered-into-pen.html
&
Edited February 6, 2024
Rule 145 – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/rule-145-v2-i-this-excessive-out-of.html
Edited February 6, 2024
How can they co-exist? – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/how-can-they-co-exist-v2.html
Edited February 6, 2024
The Witness – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-witness-v2.html
posted to Twitter February 5, 2024
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1754720547710062778
February 6, 2024
Rule 145
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/rule-145.html
posted to Twitter February 5, 2024
February 6, 2024
Two competing cabals
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/two-competing-cabals.html
posted to Twitter February 6, 2024
February 6, 2024
The Witness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-witness.html
Posted to Twitter February 5, 2024
In response to the post of
Yahia Lababidi
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November 18, 2023
How can they co-exist?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/how-can-they-co-exist.html
Merged November 18, 2023
From the river to the sea – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/from-river-to-sea-v2.html
November 18, 2023
From the river to the sea
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/from-river-to-sea.html
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-773791
November 18, 2023
A one-state solution
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/a-one-state-solution.html
Edited November 3, 2023
Are there any boundaries – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/are-there-any-boundaries-v2.html
November 3, 2023
Twitter Post by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
https://twitter.com/netanyahu/status/1720400053347438719
“[…]'Remember what Amalek did to you'.[…]”
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October 29, 2023
Are there any boundaries
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/are-there-any-boundaries.html
Netanyahu speech October 29, 2023
invoking 1 Samuel 15:3
and the command to eradicate the Amalekites
https://twitter.com/i/status/1718391828427493863
Edited October 29, 2023
Oh Ishmael, Oh Isaac – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/oh-ishmael-oh-isaac-v3.html
October 15, 2023
If Saul has listened
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/if-saul-had-listened.html
1 Samuel 15
Edited October 9, 2023
The pain on her face – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-pain-on-her-face-v2.html
October 9, 2023
The pain on her face
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-pain-on-her-face.html
My customer said she has worn the little gold Star of David for 60 years.
 
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, 2023, and 2024. 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, Faith, God, love, grace, justice, terror, Israel, Palestine, Jew, Arab, Muslim, ISIS, Hamas, Amalek, genocide, Netanyahu, witness, IHL, Rule 145,
 
#poetry #Faith #God #love #grace #justice #terror #Israel #Palestine #Jew #Arab #Muslim #ISIS #Hamas #Amalek #genocide #Netanyahu #witness #IHL #Rule145
 
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Poetry, God, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Rafah, sheep, shepherd, massacre, refuge, refugee, genocide, terror, innocents, Gaza, Isaac, Ishmael, Amalek, Netanyahu, Palestinians,
 
#Poetry #God #Israel #Palestine #Hamas #Rafah #sheep #shepherd #massacre #refuge #refugee #genocide #terror #innocents #Gaza #Isaac #Ishmael #Amalek #Netanyahu #Palestinians

God speaks in the clouds – v2

God speaks on the clouds,
in shafts of color, of light,
shining down from Heaven,
God’s world ablaze, alive...
 
God speaks in power, in mercy,
in the clouds, in color and light,
building thunderheads, also,
The world is dark, is bright...
 
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Edited August 24, 2024
God speaks in the clouds – v2
 
Edited August 6, 2024
God speaks in clouds – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/god-speaks-in-clouds-v2.html
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Edited August 6, 2024
Nature calls us – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/nature-calls-us-v2.html
August 4, 2024
Nature calls us
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/nature-calls-us.html
New name/ Merged July 23, 2024
Fill yourself with Christ
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/fill-yourself-with-christ.html
Edited July 23, 2024
May we be filled – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/may-we-be-filled-v2.html
Edited July 23, 2024
What is in your cup – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/what-is-in-your-cup-v2.html  
After poem based on 7/19/2024
Post on FB by Betty Nurbaety
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July 22, 2024
I pray you have found beauty
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/i-pray-you-have-found-beauty.html
July 21, 2024, posts:
“I pray you have found beauty somewhere in your walk today,
or that it will find you before your rest tonight”
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July 16, 2024
God speaks in clouds
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/god-speaks-in-clouds_16.html
July 16, 2024
God speaks in the clouds
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/god-speaks-in-clouds.html
July 16, 2024
Beauty we often don't notice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/beauty-we-often-dont-notice.html
Edited July 16, 2024
A Garden in Our Yard – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-garden-in-our-yard-v2.html
Amanda Gorman inauguration poem
“The Hill We Climb”
and description of chaotic garden in The Shack,
by William P. Young
&
Edited July 10, 2024
Are we seeing angels
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/are-we-seeing-angels.html
July 10, 2024
do we see angels in the whisper of clouds
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/do-we-see-angels-in-whisper-of-clouds.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, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 54,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
poetry, God, Christ, Spirit, faith, love, hope, heaven, light, water, air, angels, clouds, sky,
 
#poetry #God #Christ #Spirit #faith #love #hope #heaven #light #water #air #angels #clouds #sky
 

Reaching for my phone this morning – v2

Reaching for my phone this morning,
a part of my life shattered, broke,
for in trying to turn off my alarm,
I shattered my favorite coffee mug…
 
A little tragedy you may suggest,
just a coffee cup, of no consequence,
that is most definitely true, and yet,
how many cups of coffee have I sipped
from that cup I bought in 1983…
 
So many days, so many years ago,
a Java Junkie, it is true, black coffee black,
the same color staining the pottery,
Tom, I sincerely thank you…
 
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Edited August 24, 2024
Reaching for my phone this morning – v2
 
July 16, 2024
Reaching for my phone this morning
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/reaching-for-my-phone-this-morning.html
Coffee mug I bought in 1982, maybe 1983,
Mindscape Gallery, Evanston, IL
Art by Tom Edwards
https://wallypots.com/
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Edited July 16, 2024
Art in the making in the Bakery – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/art-in-making-in-bakery-v2.html
&
July 16, 2024
Beauty we often don't notice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/beauty-we-often-dont-notice.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, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. 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, coffee, mug, Tom Edwards, pottery, art, Wally, Java Junkie, Mindscape Gallery, Evanston,
 
‪#poetry #coffee #mug #TomEdwards #pottery #art #Wally #JavaJunkie #MindscapeGallery #Evanston

When Christ returns in victory – v2

When Christ returns in victory
We will be transformed,
We will be transfigured,
We will be like Him, reborn,
We will become beings of light…
 
When Christ comes again,
When God says, “This is the day…”
When He descends from the clouds,
We will be light beings, spirit creatures,
We will be changed forever; we will rise with Him…
 
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Edited August 24, 2024
When Christ returns in victory – v2
 
Based on #1John3:1-3
Based on #Jeremiah29:11-13
July 16, 2024
When Christ returns in victory
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/when-christ-returns-in-victory.html
Edited August 24, 2024
We are now children of God – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/we-are-now-children-of-god-v2.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, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. 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, God, Christ, Spirit, faith, love, grace, hope, calling, purpose, Jeremiah 29, 1 John 1, children,
 
#poetry #God #Christ #Spirit #faith #love #grace #calling #purpose #hope #children
 

We are now children of God – v2

We have been raised from the pit,
from our sin, our rebellion,
we have been redeemed, made anew,
we are now children of God,
brothers and sisters with Christ…
 
Rejoice in your salvation, your rising,
from the pit, from eternal death,
believe we are now children of God,
we walk in God’s goodness,
we dwell in God’s light…
 
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Edited August 24, 2024
We are now children of God – v2
 
July 16, 2024
We are now children of God
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/we-are-now-children-of-god.html
Based on #1John3:1-3
Based on #Jeremiah29:11-13
 
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, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. 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, God, Christ, Spirit, faith, love, grace, hope, calling, purpose, Jeremiah 29, 1 John 1, children,
 
#poetry #God #Christ #Spirit #faith #love #grace #calling #purpose #hope #children

Beauty we often don’t notice – v2

We are in a rush going outside,
often on our way to work, to the grind,
we don’t stop to know, to notice, to experience,
beauty all around us, wildflowers, colors,
birdsong, the clouds, the skies,
mercy of the Creator, these gifts,
grace, written on the world…
 
Beauty we often don’t notice,
in our rush, trapped within ourselves,
not seeing the wonder all around us,
gifts of the Creator, of creation,
of nature itself, an assurance, a vision,
in our yards, in these moments,
God writes on the world…
 
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Edited August 23, 2024
Beauty we often don’t notice – v2
 
July 16, 2024
Beauty we often don't notice
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/beauty-we-often-dont-notice.html
Edited July 16, 2024
A Garden in Our Yard – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-garden-in-our-yard-v2.html
Amanda Gorman inauguration poem
“The Hill We Climb”
and description of chaotic garden in The Shack,
by William P. Young
&
July 15, 2024
A Garden in Our Yard
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-garden-in-our-yard.html
January 16, 2016
birds sing up the morning – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/birds-sing-up-spring-v5.html
October 27, 2015
His Palette of Autumn – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/his-palette-of-autumn-v5.html
edited September 9, 2015
Joy in Their Dying – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/joy-in-their-dying-v2.html
Edited August 2, 2013
“His Palette of Autumn – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-autumn-v4.html
edited July 20, 2012
“His Palette of Summer – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-summer-v3.html
edited July 19, 2012
“Wildflowers – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/wildflowers-v3.html
July 18, 2012
new poem – “birds sing up the spring”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/birds-sing-up-spring.html
inspired by remark by Harriet Bean at Spirit Study
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
July 15, 2012
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July 18, 2012
new poem – “His Palette of Spring”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-spring.html
July 18, 2012
new poem – “His Palette of Summer”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-summer.html
July 18, 2012
new poem – “His Palette of Winter”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-winter.html
edited July 17, 2012
“His Palette of Autumn – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-autumn-v3.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/his-palette-of-autumn-v3.html?showComment=1342574834468#c1791476960842466709
September 14, 2010
Joy in Their Dying
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/09/joy-in-their-dying.html
September 14, 2010
His Palette of Autumn
http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/09/his-palette-of-autumn.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, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. 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, nature, God, Faith, color, winter, spring, summer, flowers, bright, pastel, light green, slumber, awakening,
 
‪#poetry #sun ‪#nature ‪#God #Faith ‪#God ‪#color #winter ‪#spring ‪#sky #blue #green #awakening #rising #hope #promise #summer

Acceptance – 2 – v2

It has now been thirty years,
since that night when the ice caught you,
when you spun out of control, into traffic,
I so remember that night, seeing you,
knowing you were gone, forever…
 
I still talk to you, sharing, openly,
about my joys, my struggle,
about the times we never had,
I remember when I became older,
older than you ever would be…
 
So strange to think of it, years,
accepting the reality, the truth,
how many years, moments, lifetimes,
how many others you never met,
moments that you didn't share,
 
but so many words we share
when we gather, on your birthday,
of how we all loved you, how we love you
still, forever, how we miss you, Dad,
the true head of our houses, still, yet ...
 
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Edited August 23, 2024
Acceptance – 2 – v2
 
July 15, 2024
Acceptance - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/acceptance-2.html
July 13, 2024
https://x.com/TheRealJackRose/status/1812232380276756483
Part of poem challenge on Realistic Poetry Twitter Group
https://x.com/i/communities/1690417242427855156
Jack- Aspiring writer, poet and reviewer.
@TheRealJackRose
Collaborative poem on the five stages of grief:
denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance
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Edited March 28, 2024
I touched the brains of my father – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-touched-brains-of-my-father-v3.html
Edited March 28, 2024
I am not ready – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-am-not-ready-v3.html
&
Edited July 7, 2022
I touched the brains of my father – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/i-touched-brains-of-my-father-v2.html
Edited July 5, 2022
I touched the brains of my father
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/i-touched-brains-of-my-father.html
July 4, 2022
I have touched the brains of my father
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/07/i-have-touched-brains-of-my-father.html
&
February 14, 2021
thirty years ago tonight
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/thirty-years-ago-tonight.html
February 14, 2021
When love became loss
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/when-love-became-loss.html
February 14, 2021
I miss you Dad
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/i-miss-you-dad.html
February 13, 2021
Thirty years ago
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/thirty-years-ago.html
February 13, 2021
processing history
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/processing-history.html
30^th anniversary of black ice car accident death
of my father, Arthur Leon Foss, Jr.,
Rochester, NH
near Mile Marker 19
Spaulding Turnpike
before it was separated lanes
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edited December 28, 2019
Did You Hear Her Cry, Her Moan – v2
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1210959183585173506
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-her-moan-v2.html
stanza 1 – https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1210957493498724355
stanza 2 – https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1210957591855144960
edited/new name December 28, 2019
Did You Hear Her Cry, Her Moan
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1210953837240029185
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-her-moan.html
edited January 22, 2016
Did You Hear Her Cry – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/did-you-hear-her-cry-v3.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/did-you-hear-her-cry-v3_22.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/did-you-hear-her-cry-v3_21.html
(merging original and version 2)
edited January 21, 2016
Crushed – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/crushed-v2.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/crushed-v2_21.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/crushed-v2_56.html
posted March 6, 2004
written 1/9/04 – 14:35-14:40
Crushed
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/crushed.html 
– about cleaning out my father’s car the day after his fatal accident. The weather was very cold and the passenger door was where the gearshift would be. The license plate of the car that ran into his was there too. The glasses he wore were in the right rearmost spot and his watch was in the left rearmost part of the car. The driver seat was broken backward from the force of the accident and his blood was on the backseat where he landed.
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edited January 11, 2016
Black Ice – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-ice-v4.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-ice-v4_11.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/black-ice-v4_83.html
(editing version 3)
edited September 1, 2012
Black Ice – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/black-ice-v3.html
Edited August 31, 2012
“Black Ice – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/08/black-ice-v2.html
December 12, 2007
“Black Ice”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2007/12/black-ice.html
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edited December 29, 2015
Demons – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/demons-v2_29.html
edited December 29, 2015
Did You Hear Her Cry – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/did-you-hear-her-cry-v2_29.html
edited December 29, 2015
The Crash – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-crash-v2.html
posted February 14, 2004
(the 13^th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The Crash
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/crash.html
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and my car accident
the day I applied to law school
edited December 18, 2015
The Submariner – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-submariner-v2.html
&
edited December 17, 2015
Meticulous – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/meticulous-v2.html
&
edited December 18, 2015
Adam Asked – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/adam-asked-v2.html
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edited October 22, 2015
Did you brace for impact – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/did-you-brace-for-impact-v2.html
edicted October 22, 2015
Mile Marker 19 – v8
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/mile-marker-19-v8.html
(editing original)
edited October 5, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v9
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v9.html
(editing version 5)
&
edited October 3, 2015
Why on this day – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3.html
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/why-on-this-day-v3_5.html
(editing original)
edited October 19, 2014
Why on this day – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/why-on-this-day-v2.html
July 1, 2014
Why on this day
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/07/why-on-this-day.html
“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
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edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory-v2.html
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-vivid-memory.html
Matthew 28:20 (NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room Daily Devotional
“In Dark Times”
http://devotional.upperroom.org/devotionals/2014-06-26 
by Don Greeley
about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd/index.shtml
for June 26, 2014
read June 27, 2014
Upper Room Daily Devotional
for March and April 2014
http://devotional.upperroom.org/issues/may-jun%202014
&
edited August 15, 2015
Here it comes – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/here-it-comes-v3.html
(editing version 2)
edited January 12, 2014
Here it comes – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes-v2.html
January 12, 2014
Here it comes
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/here-it-comes.html
January 12, 2014
I am not ready
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/i-am-not-ready.html
(conversation by Dean McKenney about his
bad car accident 40 years ago)
January 12, 2014
an accounting to God
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-accounting-to-god.html
January 12, 2014
Honor their walk
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/honor-their-walk.html
Romans 14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible Study
led by Steve Curtis
Stetson Memorial United Methodist Church
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stetson-Memorial-United-Methodist-Church/174161846023512
Patten, ME
January 12, 2014
&
edited August 4, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v8
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/08/like-venus-fly-trap-v8.html
(editing version 5)
edited May 9, 2015
Ten Years – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/ten-years-v2.html
April 23, 2004
Ten Years
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/04/ten-years.html
see also
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edited January 11, 2014
Mile Marker 19 – v7
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/mile-marker-19-v7.html
(editing version 6)
Edited November 9, 2013
Mile Marker 19 – v6
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/mile-marker-19-v6.html
(editing version 3)
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edited March 21, 2015
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v7
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/03/like-venus-fly-trap-v7.html
(editing version 5)
edited December 3, 2014
Like the Venus Fly Trap – v6
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v6.html
(editing version 3)
Edited November 9, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/11/like-venus-fly-trap-v5.html
Edited October 24, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v4.html
Edited October 11, 2013
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/like-venus-fly-trap-v3.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap-v2.html
December 20, 2012
“Like the Venus Fly Trap”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/like-venus-fly-trap.html
edited February 11, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v9”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/hiding-in-ice-v9.html
edited January 4, 2014
“hiding in the ice – v8”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/01/hiding-in-ice-v8.html
(editing version 5)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v7”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v7.html
 (editing version 3)
Edited September 28, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v6”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v6.html
(editing version 2)
Edited September 25, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/09/hiding-in-ice-v5.html
Edited August 2, 2013
“hiding in the ice – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/hiding-in-ice-v4.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v3.html
Edited December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice-v2.html
December 21, 2012
“hiding in the ice”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/hiding-in-ice.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“Animated / Evil – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil-v2.html
December 20, 2012
“Animated / Evil”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/animated-evil.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“A latent danger – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v3.html
December 20, 2012
“A latent danger – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger-v2.html
“A latent danger”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-latent-danger.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/smiling-in-freezing-v2.html
December 20, 2012
“Smiling in the freezing”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-water-changing-life-giving-elixir.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“A frozen trap – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap-v2.html
December 20, 2012
“A frozen trap”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-frozen-trap.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“was the road innocent – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent-v2.html
December 21, 2012
“was the road innocent”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/was-road-innocent.html
Edited December 26, 2012
“Did the ice know – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know-v2.html
December 20, 2012
“Did the ice know”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/12/did-ice-know.html
series of new poems
also about my father’s death,
after reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy Lanes”,
(see more of his poems at:
http://soggytractor.wordpress.com )
and exchanging emails with him about that poem
and my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut-v2.html
August 22, 2013
“eyes not shut”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/08/eyes-not-shut.html
a poem in conjured after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2/posts/503630106394453
by Chip Bergeron
https://www.facebook.com/chip.bergeron2
http://www.authorsden.com/chipbergeron
&
Edited September 20, 2012
new poem, “Did you brace for impact”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/did-you-brace-for-impact.html
&
Edited September 20, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v5”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v5.html
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v4”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v2.html
editing version 2 below
&
Edited September 12, 2012
“Mile Marker 19 – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/mile-marker-19-v3.html
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”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/mile-marker-19-v2.html
&
October 2, 2011
Did You Hear Her Cry
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/10/did-you-hear-her-cry.html
after rereading earlier poem,
“Mile Marker 19”
&
Edited April 23, 2013
“No Life in Your Eyes – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/04/no-life-in-your-eyes-v2.html
February 11, 2011
“No Life in Your Eyes”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-life-in-your-eyes.html
remembering the 20^th anniversary
of my father’s death, February 14, 1991
written at the House of Purpose coffeehouse
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Purpose/298439882520
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/The-House-Of-Purpose/357853918881
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=132438993489979
Hillsboro, NH
February 11, 2011
&
new poem February 11, 2014
Where you are scattered
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/where-you-are-scattered.html
posted March 22, 2004
written 2/26/2001
Adam Asked
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/adam-asked.html
posted March 18, 2004
written March 6, 2001
Meticulous
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/meticulous.html
posted March 17, 2004
written 3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The Submariner
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/submariner.html
posted February 18, 2004
edited April 25, 2015
Home Again – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/home-again-v2.html
edited April 23, 2015
Your final resting place – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/your-final-resting-place-v2.html
edited April 25, 2015
Ashes – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/ashes-v2.html
March 2, 2001
“Ashes”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/ashes.html
posted February 18, 2004
March 2, 2001
“Home Again”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/home-again.html
&
posted March 10, 2004
written April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/03/demons.html
&
posted February 8, 2004
original version written 5/20/2000
“Mile Marker 19”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/mile-marker-19_08.html
posted to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as the 15^th 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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Every good gift – v2

Every good gift
is a gift from heaven,
grace and blessing
God pours out on us…
 
Every good gift
comes from the Father,
gifting us grace,
love overflowing…
 
Every good gift
is a manifestation of love
an offering of mercy
from heaven above…
 
Every good gift
comes from the Father,
the source of all life,
Creator of heaven and earth…
 
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Edited August 23, 2024
Every good gift – v2
 
July 13, 2024
Every good gift
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/every-good-gift.html
Based on #James1:12-17
Based on #Psalm9:1-9
Edited July 13, 2024
Stand fast in your trials – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/stand-fast-in-your-trials-persevere-in.html
July 13, 2024
We are tempted
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/we-are-tempted.html
July 13, 2024
Stand fast in your trials
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/07/stand-fast-in-your-trials.html
 
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Seeds planted into the universe – v3

Words rising in my mind, within my spirit, awakening,
urgently crying to be released, to be heard, spoken,
for someone who needs to hear them, to heal,
words tossed from my hands into the gossamer, the ether,
to be caught by the air, the wind, the eternal spirits…
 
Seeds sown, planted into the universe, the zeitgeist,
released from my mind, my spirit, my broken vessel,
not knowing where they will land, become planted,
how they will germinate, how they may be received,
how they may touch others’ lives, important…
 
For that is not for me to know, in truth, to ponder,
to worry about how they may be received, to be honest,
I must release them from my spirit, into existence,
the words themselves existing, powerful, authentic,
offering hope, light, love to feed the world…

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Edited August 23, 2024

Seeds planted into the universe – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/seeds-planted-into-universe-v3.html

Video August 23, 2024
Seeds planted into the universe – v2
https://studio.youtube.com/video/cXX05UfbgIg/edit
Edited August 22, 2024
Seed planted into the universe – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/seeds-planted-into-universe-v2.html
August 22, 2024
Seeds planted into the universe
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/seeds-planted-into-universe.html
Edited August 20, 2024
Conjured from the ether – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/conjured-from-ether-v2.html
August 19, 2024 writing prompt
cup of coffee shape with Starry Night within…
 
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