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Updated draft book, "After Taras"

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A lost opportunity

I know deep within me,
I lost an opportunity,
A moment of time painful,
When I was too afraid, too timid,
When I lost a moment,
An inflection point in life,
Never to return…
 
He made an offer, open,
One that I could not comprehend,
How it would all work out,
I was ambivalent, uncertain,
And he was at that moment driven,
He had no time to wait, impatient,
For my fear to be abated.
 
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May 5, 2024
A lost opportunity
 
Talking in 2010 to person
who suggested identifying 9 people
to look at 1,000 of my poems each,
to determine which might good
enough to be published.
I never pursued it.
I actually tried to talk with them
as they walked to their car…
 
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Link to my book on Google books - please consider buying my book of poetry - Getting Started

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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, and 2019. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 48,980 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

NEW Book of Poetry - "Getting Started", by Raymond A. Foss, February 8, 2019

I created and published a new book tonight - "Getting Started" - http://www.lulu.com/shop/raymond-foss/getting-started/paperback/product-23978475.html

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something physical

something physical

the Word tangible

the Bible we hold

the living Christ

the Word alive

here to guide us

the Spirit informs us

as we read the living Word.

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May 29, 2014

something physical

John 1:1-5

“Jesus Is The Word”

devotion by Lynda Hammitt

https://www.facebook.com/lynda.hammitt

for May 26, 2014

read May 29, 2014

Duck Commander Daily Devotional

http://www.amazon.com/Duck-Commander-Devotional-Alan-Robertson/dp/1476748683

compiled by Alan Robertson

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Robertson-duck-dynasty/601622119889439

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alan-Robertson/665992033453188

http://duckcommander.com/meet-the-family/al-robertson

https://twitter.com/BeardlessBro

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 30,010+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

A Sanctuary from the World

Our visit to the bookstore a success

our purchases rung up

waiting for the writing

the embossing of the book

A present for a little one

sharing with her the Word of God

waiting by the cash register

surveying the whole store

He made a casual comment

how each one had a smile

I remarked that was because

this is a sanctuary from the world

Even though a place of commerce

price tags on each one

a place somehow holy

bringing all of us toward God

Images of our faith

words to lift us up

presents for loved ones

seeking to touch their hearts

Life in these simple things

to remind us of God’s presence

keepsakes and the Word of God

on each shelf for us

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April 25, 2013

conversation between me and

the Reverend Theodore L. VanPatten, Sr.

at Parable Bible Bookstore, Concord, NH

April 24, 2013

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Poetry Where You Live - now available in Ebook format

My book, as seen on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/Poetry-Where-Live-Raymond-Foss/dp/1441525343, now available in Ebook (Kindle) format; and you can "Look Inside" and see the poems.

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 35,580+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.