A Lean-to in the #Woods - v3 #poetry #poem #wind #nature #forest #cold #love #grace #faith #God #hope #comfort #woods #spring #ladyslipper #flower

A bed of pines, of leaves,
corrugated metal for a roof
and snow fencing walls...
a tin of fresh-pine-needle tea
brewing in the open fire...
 
My place of refuge
out in the woods
just up the hill
off the path, in the deep...
just up from home.
 
A place for reflection
sanctuary in the city
close but away
from the day-to-day
from school, from my home...
 
Near the single-bed of lady slippers
that I had discovered,
up the path and to the right...
I could still walk it now
Fifty years later...
 
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Edited July 29, 2026
A Lean-to in the Woods – v3
 
edited March 26, 2021
A Lean-to in the Woods - v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-lean-to-in-woods-v2.html
up the trail from Apple Hill Road,
Claremont, NH
1976 to 1978
November 23, 2006, 20:06
A Lean-to in the Woods
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/11/lean-to-in-woods.html
edited October 29, 2015
Out in the Woods – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/out-in-woods-v5.html
(editing version 4)
edited April 16, 2015
Out in the Woods – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/out-in-woods-v4.html
(editing original)
Edited April 24, 2013
“Out in the woods – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/04/out-in-woods-v3.html
(from the original)
edited April 26, 2012
“Out in the woods – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/04/out-in-woods-v2.html
Original poem 3/26/2004
“Out in the woods”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/04/out-in-woods.html
about walking in the woods in Claremont, NH
edited October 29, 2015
A Walk in the Woods – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/10/a-walk-in-woods-v3.html
(editing version 2)
Edited April 24, 2013
“A Walk in the Woods – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-walk-in-woods-v2.html
August 7, 2006 19:38
“A Walk in the Woods”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/08/walk-in-woods.html
 
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