Rising toward the heavens

Rising toward the heavens
from orange, to yellow, to white,
our star in its awakening
bringing sunshine and light.
 
Awakening as a promise
proof of the sovereignty of God
alive in the dawning
the provision of our risen Lord.
 
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March 21, 2023

Rising up to the heavens

 

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#Nightfall - v6

Nightfall – v6

The sun drops below the shoreline

below the forest beyond;

Summer sky aglow.

Still skin of the water

Ablaze in orange, yellow, and black.

Nightfall on the quiet, still, lake.

With effort I pull and push

The canoe away from shore.

Longing for warmth.

Waves swelled and fell.

The canoe pitched and bobbed.

The paddle blade leaves

Luminous eddies by my side.

Great blue heron

Regal, majestic,

Perched on a skeleton

Of the ancient pine,

Silhouetted before

An Oriole sky.

Crossing the silken waters

Not roadway, no map,

Colored lights on a deck,

Elvis on the stereo,

Easy laughter from an invisible porch.

Dark houses, silent waters,

Failing light, all in shadows.

A beaver before me.

Out in the lit waters.

He slaps his tail and dives

Shallow near shore.

We cross again, again,

Repeating this dance.

A light from my window,

Dimly through the screens,

The open porch, calling,

My cabin in the lake,

Guides me home.

Night all around me

The world is still.

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edited March 21, 2021

Nightfall - v6

edited September 28, 2017

Nightfall – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/nightfall-v5.html

Edited July 18, 2013

“Nightfall – v4”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v4.html

Edited July 15, 2013

“Nightfall – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v3.html

Edited July 15, 2013

“Nightfall – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/nightfall-v2.html

July 20, 2000

“Nightfall”

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

Written Thursday 7/20/00 at 9:50. It is about my two hour canoe ride

on Swains Lake from 7:15 to 9:20pm.

Barrington, NH

edited December 28, 2015

Alone in the Rain – revised – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/12/alone-in-rain-revised-v2.html

posted February 13, 2004

written August 13, 2000 1:53am

Alone in the Rain – revised

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/alone-in-rain.html

Written 6/18/2000

Alone in the Rain

same day as “Dew in the Morning”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/dew-in-morning-first-try.html

and

“Ten Feet Overhead”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/one-morning-on-swains-lake.html

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53k+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

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#Apricot and #Periwinkle - v6

Apricot and Periwinkle – v6

Thinking in Color

Capturing a moment

The poem’s title coming

Pulled from the ether

From my memory.

Awake to these senses

Alive in this moment

Captured, remembering

A touchstone, an image

Forever burned in my mind.

Apricot and periwinkle,

Robin’s egg and salmon skin.

Moments, seconds really,

Flickering before me

Of yesterday’s sunset.

Fading, dying, yet

Frozen in my spirit

Captured forever

In my memory, my tissue,

To recall later years.

No Nikon or Kodak,

No disposable or Instamatic.

Not on emulsion

Images captured on

Rods and cones this time.

Fine grained, the pixels,

Memory planted securely

Absorbed within, deeply,

And enduring, connecting,

Synapses growing strong.

Soft shadows, blending,

Muted edges, eye-shadow,

And wispy gossamer clouds.

Bands of color and mood

Share the sky above.

The still air the canvas

With small birds

Flitting in the sparkles

And a damselfly,

Before the dark.

Stars create a canopy

The shape of the dome

The arc of eternity

Above the dark landscape

After the light fails.

Before me over the water.

The sunset now remembered

A part of my memory.

My experience, my life

To cherish forevermore.

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edited March 21, 2021

Apricot and Periwinkle - v6

edited May 5, 2018

Apricot and Periwinkle – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/05/apricot-and-periwinkle-v5.html

(editing version 4, adding 1^st stanza)

edited September 28, 2017

Apricot and Periwinkle – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/apricot-and-periwinkle-v4.html

edited January 18, 2016

Apricot and Periwinkle – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/apricot-and-periwinkle-v3.html

(merging edits to version 2 and original)

edited June 21, 2014

Apricot and Periwinkle – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/apricot-and-periwinkle-v2.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night

Apricot and Periwinkle

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/sunset-seeing-colors.html

Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night 

Swain’s Lake, Barrington, NH

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Sausage - v3

Sausage – v3

Forget the frank, the hot dog -

Give me the Fenway sausage.

Lansdowne or Yawkey,

Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts.

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 scorched and blackened piece of meat

Reminds me of every one

I have eaten before.

So much memory

Of family and fun

Of ballgames, tailgates, and the carnie;

A cacophony of moments

Drip 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.

==============

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

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#Beach #Sand - v7

Beach Sand – v7

Maybe it is our memories

the change of pace that brings us there,

Our sense of vacation, of inner peace

feeling God in the silence, the stillness

Maybe it is the smell of the place

the water, the roses, the lotions, the oils;

Visions of the gulls, the dunes, grasses;

Moving in the air, the invisible breezes

But, oh it is the feel of it,

the crunch and slide of it;

Under now smooth feet,

the recurring feel of beach sand

It is so very different from dirt, soil, loam

no, not earthy, moist, rich, wet mulch;

But oh it is so granular and gritty, slippery,

even when wet, shifting, moving

Moveable paper spreading under toes

sliding beneath the soles;

Smoothing my skin, relaxing,

clearing my mind, I am at peace

Unburdening me of the rest

the cares which I carried,

Drawing me to the tactile,

to the feel of beach sand

===============

edited March 21, 2021

Beach Sand – v7

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

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