Maybe Georgia had
something right
in her paintings of living
flowers;
Something human,
evocative,
almost erotic, of
living flesh,
the suppleness of the
petals.
Lady slipper
illumined, shining
out in the wood, in
the spring morning light,
the flesh of her skin
engorged, alive;
Maybe Georgia was honest
in her painting of
flowers.
The tiny laces, the
booty of down
in the flesh of pink,
of skin,
something drawing us,
enticing;
Something erotic,
sensuous,
in the shape of Georgia’s
flowers.
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edited February 9,
2022
Her Lady Slipper – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/her-lady-slipper-v3.html
edited after reading “May”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February
9, 2022
at the edge of
the lake – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v4.html
edited February
9, 2022
at the edge of
the lake – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v3.html
edited February
9, 2022
at the edge of
the lake – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v2.html
edited February
9, 2022
onto the water –
v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/onto-water-v2.html
February 8, 2022
onto the water
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/onto-water.html
about summer
2000,
written after
reading "Blossom"
by Mary Oliver
&
February 8, 2022
at the edge of
the lake
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake.html
about summer
2000,
written after
reading "Morning on Great Pond"
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February
8, 2022
in the woods I
wandered – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered-v3.html
edited February 8,
2022
in the woods I
wandered – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered-v2.html
February 8, 2022
in the woods I
wandered
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered.html
written after
reading “Spring”
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February
8, 2022
The bramble
enticing – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-bramble-enticing-v2.html
February 8, 2022
the bramble
enticing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-bramble-enticing.html
Written after
reading "Skunk Cabbage"
by Mary Oliver
&
edited
June 12, 2015
Her
Lady Slipper – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/06/her-lady-slipper-v2.html
July
18, 2012
new
poem “Her Lady Slipper”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/07/her-lady-slipper.html
inspired by
remark by Harriet Bean
at 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
Suncook United
Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
July 15, 2012
&
paintings of
Georgia O’Keeffe
http://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/
&
earlier
poems
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
walk in woods in Claremont, NH
&
edited
December 26, 2014
a
chapel prayer closet – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-chapel-prayer-closet-v3.html
(editing
version 2 and original version)
edited
February 23, 2014
“a
chapel prayer closet – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-chapel-prayer-closet-v2.html
edited/new
poem February 17, 2014
“a
chapel prayer closet
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-chapel-prayer-closet.html
edited
February 11, 2014
“A
Cathedral of Pine – v3”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-cathedral-of-pine-v3.html
(editing
the original again)
Edited
May 4, 2013
“A
Cathedral of Pine – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-cathedral-of-pine-v2.html
November
4, 2005
“A Cathedral of Pine”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/11/cathedral-of-pine.html
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