Choice of words and meanings
Inference in hiding
Expanding rights
Beyond facts
Setting the stage
To go further
With the next little case
To loose the floodgates
More than measured steps
When the right is denied
And it isn’t right
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Saturday, April 24, 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
Ten Years
Ten Years, Dad
Since you lost control
At Mile Marker 19
On Valentine’s Day
Without her.
So close to me
Yet we never saw you.
How I wish I knew you
Better. How I wish
We were friends.
Lives lived inside ourselves
Never knowing each other
Never sharing much
Except for the talks in the
Car from Durham home
And back again,
Now twenty years past
I miss you
Because I didn’t have
A chance
To break through
The walls that you used
To live as you wanted
With family at
Arms length.
Much there was
That I should have
Said to you
That might have made
Things different
For me. But
We never had
The time or
The words were
Too brief.
Since you lost control
At Mile Marker 19
On Valentine’s Day
Without her.
So close to me
Yet we never saw you.
How I wish I knew you
Better. How I wish
We were friends.
Lives lived inside ourselves
Never knowing each other
Never sharing much
Except for the talks in the
Car from Durham home
And back again,
Now twenty years past
I miss you
Because I didn’t have
A chance
To break through
The walls that you used
To live as you wanted
With family at
Arms length.
Much there was
That I should have
Said to you
That might have made
Things different
For me. But
We never had
The time or
The words were
Too brief.
------
edited
December 29, 2015
Demons
– v2
edited
December 29, 2015
Did
You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
The
Crash – v2
edited
December 18, 2015
The
Submariner – v2
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Meticulous
– v2
&
edited
December 18, 2015
Adam
Asked – v2
==========
edited
October 22, 2015
Did
you brace for impact – v2
edicted
October 22, 2015
Mile
Marker 19 – v8
(editing
original)
edited October
5, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v9
(editing
version 5)
&
edited October
3, 2015
Why on this
day – v3
(editing
original)
edited October
19, 2014
Why on this
day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this
day
“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
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20
(NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder
for June 26,
2014
read June 27,
2014
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
for March and
April 2014
&
edited August
15, 2015
Here it comes
– v3
(editing
version 2)
edited January
12, 2014
Here it comes
– v2
January 12,
2014
Here it comes
January 12,
2014
I am not ready
(conversation
by Dean McKenney about his
bad car
accident 40 years ago)
January 12,
2014
an accounting
to God
January 12,
2014
Honor their
walk
Romans
14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible
Study
led by Steve
Curtis
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12,
2014
&
edited August
4, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v8
(editing
version 5)
edited
May 9, 2015
Ten
Years – v2
April
23, 2004
Ten
Years
see
also
-------
edited
January 11, 2014
Mile
Marker 19 – v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile
Marker 19 – v6
(editing
version 3)
-------
edited March
21, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v7
(editing
version 5)
edited
December 3, 2014
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
November 9, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited
October 24, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited
October 11, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap”
edited
February 11, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v9”
edited
January 4, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v8”
(editing
version 5)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v6”
(editing
version 2)
Edited
September 25, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v5”
Edited
August 2, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v4”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v3”
Edited
December 21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v2”
December
21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
latent danger – v3”
December
20, 2012
“A
latent danger – v2”
“A
latent danger”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
frozen trap – v2
December
20, 2012
“A
frozen trap”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“was
the road innocent – v2”
December
21, 2012
“was
the road innocent”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Did
the ice know – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Did
the ice know”
series
of new poems
also
about my father’s death,
after
reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy
Lanes”,
(see
more of his poems at:
and
exchanging emails with him about that poem
and
my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited
August 22, 2013
“eyes
not shut – v2”
August 22,
2013
“eyes not
shut”
a poem in conjured
after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new
poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v3”
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”
&
October
2, 2011
Did
You Hear Her Cry
after
rereading earlier poem,
“Mile
Marker 19”
&
Edited April
23, 2013
“No Life in
Your Eyes – v2”
February 11,
2011
“No Life in
Your Eyes”
remembering
the 20th anniversary
of my father’s
death, February 14, 1991
written at the
House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11,
2011
&
new
poem February 11, 2014
Where
you are scattered
posted
March 22, 2004
written
2/26/2001
Adam
Asked
posted
March 18, 2004
written
March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted
March 17, 2004
written
3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The
Submariner
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Home
Again”
&
posted
March 10, 2004
written
April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted
February 14, 2004
(the
13th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written
June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The
Crash
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and
my car accident
the
day I applied to law school
&
posted
February 8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile
Marker 19”
posted
to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as
the 15th 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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Poetry Where You Live.
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Thus Spake Mary Reilly,
Thus Spake Mary Reilly,
“Respondeat Superior, My Ass -
Sue ‘em All”
Sue ‘em
Sue them all damn it
Someone must be to blame
For my pain, my loss
Why shouldn’t I get mine
Right now
Get in there
Fight for me, my due
My advocate
Some charge must stick
Some rule broken,
Negligence,
Don’t clutter up with facts
Start with insurance,
Take the truck, the house,
The pension, carriage house, trailer
My god, the mansion!
Boat. No, both boats
Tanks, everything
Back up the moving vans
Let them contribute.
Raymond A. Foss
September 29, 2001
20:40
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“Respondeat Superior, My Ass -
Sue ‘em All”
Sue ‘em
Sue them all damn it
Someone must be to blame
For my pain, my loss
Why shouldn’t I get mine
Right now
Get in there
Fight for me, my due
My advocate
Some charge must stick
Some rule broken,
Negligence,
Don’t clutter up with facts
Start with insurance,
Take the truck, the house,
The pension, carriage house, trailer
My god, the mansion!
Boat. No, both boats
Tanks, everything
Back up the moving vans
Let them contribute.
Raymond A. Foss
September 29, 2001
20:40
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Consolidation of Tools in Motion
Was it 12(g) that governed
My studies tonight
Use all my tools now,
Spread before me,
Or lose them later
Black's, text, notebook
Pen, highlighter, laptop
Phone and federal rules
Coffee, Budweiser in a can
Bed, Pillow, desk, stiff chair, lamp
Glasses perched on my nose
Ticking alarm clock chattering
To my left,
Mocking me
Carpenter v. Dee
Complaint and Answer
Breach of warranty
Wrongful death
Dumb defenses
Joinder of parties
Of claims
Motions to dismiss here
Motions there
Surely,
One will stick...
Or not.
Raymond A. Foss
9/18/01 21:30 to 22:15
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My studies tonight
Use all my tools now,
Spread before me,
Or lose them later
Black's, text, notebook
Pen, highlighter, laptop
Phone and federal rules
Coffee, Budweiser in a can
Bed, Pillow, desk, stiff chair, lamp
Glasses perched on my nose
Ticking alarm clock chattering
To my left,
Mocking me
Carpenter v. Dee
Complaint and Answer
Breach of warranty
Wrongful death
Dumb defenses
Joinder of parties
Of claims
Motions to dismiss here
Motions there
Surely,
One will stick...
Or not.
Raymond A. Foss
9/18/01 21:30 to 22:15
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Saturday, April 17, 2004
4 Years and 310 poems later...
4/17/04 –
Poetry found me on 4/17/00, when I read one of two poems I had ever written at the Barrington (NH) School Board meeting, as part of a group assignment to read a poem each of us liked, as part of National Poetry Month. Marcy Dovholuk, the School District’s Reading Specialist had given us the assignment. After the positive reaction, I have been driven to produce 310 new poems in the last 4 years (including a spell from February to September 2003 when I didn’t write any). Thank you God for this new found gift, at 40 years old.
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Poetry found me on 4/17/00, when I read one of two poems I had ever written at the Barrington (NH) School Board meeting, as part of a group assignment to read a poem each of us liked, as part of National Poetry Month. Marcy Dovholuk, the School District’s Reading Specialist had given us the assignment. After the positive reaction, I have been driven to produce 310 new poems in the last 4 years (including a spell from February to September 2003 when I didn’t write any). Thank you God for this new found gift, at 40 years old.
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Proudly Lust after our Sloth
As a law student,
I long to
Relish in sloth
Kick back, lounge
Linger when I shouldn’t
Lull the hours
Sit, opaque
Blank
Read a book,
or not
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I long to
Relish in sloth
Kick back, lounge
Linger when I shouldn’t
Lull the hours
Sit, opaque
Blank
Read a book,
or not
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Friday, April 16, 2004
Dreams
Slide, fall
into the realm
the inky stillness
after restless days
Wake, fitfully
Scraps of memory
or Technicolor show
Prescience sometimes
Of future conversations,
Experience yet to come
Not déjà vu exactly,
But waking foreknowledge
of meaningless drivel
Allegory, metaphor
Passion, smells
a lost smile
or disjointed drama
Different for each
Shards or chapter and verse
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into the realm
the inky stillness
after restless days
Wake, fitfully
Scraps of memory
or Technicolor show
Prescience sometimes
Of future conversations,
Experience yet to come
Not déjà vu exactly,
But waking foreknowledge
of meaningless drivel
Allegory, metaphor
Passion, smells
a lost smile
or disjointed drama
Different for each
Shards or chapter and verse
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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Living Light
A meadow aglow
In the quiet dusk
Sitting on the porch
Drawn to the field
Mason jar in hand
Lid pierced for breath
Chasing the light
In the wet grass
Damp with dew
Captured by the spell
Of the moment
Laughing at the wonder
Cupping the luminance
Between my fingers
Feeling the cool warmth
Night vision
Insect feet on my skin
Collect a few
Where did the light go
Til they start again
Coleman mantles
In miniature
Casting shadows on the table
From the logo and seam
Open the lid
Go to bed
Empty in morning
Loaded with memory
As I close my eyes
To see the night
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In the quiet dusk
Sitting on the porch
Drawn to the field
Mason jar in hand
Lid pierced for breath
Chasing the light
In the wet grass
Damp with dew
Captured by the spell
Of the moment
Laughing at the wonder
Cupping the luminance
Between my fingers
Feeling the cool warmth
Night vision
Insect feet on my skin
Collect a few
Where did the light go
Til they start again
Coleman mantles
In miniature
Casting shadows on the table
From the logo and seam
Open the lid
Go to bed
Empty in morning
Loaded with memory
As I close my eyes
To see the night
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004
Images
Photographs
Forgotten, unseen
Burst into view
Rekindling old memories
Moments of time
Places smells
moods shadows
conjured up
life through
viewfinder
no more
But musing
Still from captured ether
In emulsion
Forgotten, unseen
Burst into view
Rekindling old memories
Moments of time
Places smells
moods shadows
conjured up
life through
viewfinder
no more
But musing
Still from captured ether
In emulsion
Mephistopheles the Pediatrician
Short cropped hair of black
Full beard of stubble, four days old
Gray joining the jagged black shards
Menacing, reaching for each patient
Hammer for knee or noggin,
Whichever the need
An image presented full in my mind’s eye
Sulphur from the lips, heat in the nostrils
Conjured as they all are
Wisps, pond fog
Or steam off a pot of soup
Wrapping round my head
Spoon to my flushed checks
Sagging eyes, reaching for sleep
Goatee and stubble of brown and gray
My face in the mirror too.
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Full beard of stubble, four days old
Gray joining the jagged black shards
Menacing, reaching for each patient
Hammer for knee or noggin,
Whichever the need
An image presented full in my mind’s eye
Sulphur from the lips, heat in the nostrils
Conjured as they all are
Wisps, pond fog
Or steam off a pot of soup
Wrapping round my head
Spoon to my flushed checks
Sagging eyes, reaching for sleep
Goatee and stubble of brown and gray
My face in the mirror too.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
Unfocused
Where is the thread
The need to be on point
Playing when I should be reading
Looking for more sources
When I have them in front of me
Taunting me in the unorganized pile
Dog eared and frayed
From carrying back and forth
Time to turn off the tube, stop striking
The keys writing this line
Pad and pen, highlighter and coffee
Starting again, to get the facts
Build the rule, the precedent
The authority to decide
What to say, what to write
In Memo 2.
Raymond A. Foss
October 23, 2001 10:37
(lamentations of a 1st semester law student)
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The need to be on point
Playing when I should be reading
Looking for more sources
When I have them in front of me
Taunting me in the unorganized pile
Dog eared and frayed
From carrying back and forth
Time to turn off the tube, stop striking
The keys writing this line
Pad and pen, highlighter and coffee
Starting again, to get the facts
Build the rule, the precedent
The authority to decide
What to say, what to write
In Memo 2.
Raymond A. Foss
October 23, 2001 10:37
(lamentations of a 1st semester law student)
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Friday, April 09, 2004
Night Alone
Bright noisy streets
Unattached and watching
The jazz, the sass,
The Street, Bourbon
Late April
Thick with tourists
Easy marks
And their watchers
In the shadows
On the corner
Bump and grab
proposition
Takes all kinds
Shapes and colors
On the street
N.O. P.D. there but not
Edgy
Past midnight
Hum of the beat
Continues
Lingers
Smells and moods
Mix
In the dark
Away from the centers
Under the porches
Later still
Same and different
Slower darker
Safe on the street
Danger near
Old Absinthe
A trumpet wails
Without competition
Any more
Another drink
Another tip
Another scene surveyed
Last call
4 AM
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Unattached and watching
The jazz, the sass,
The Street, Bourbon
Late April
Thick with tourists
Easy marks
And their watchers
In the shadows
On the corner
Bump and grab
proposition
Takes all kinds
Shapes and colors
On the street
N.O. P.D. there but not
Edgy
Past midnight
Hum of the beat
Continues
Lingers
Smells and moods
Mix
In the dark
Away from the centers
Under the porches
Later still
Same and different
Slower darker
Safe on the street
Danger near
Old Absinthe
A trumpet wails
Without competition
Any more
Another drink
Another tip
Another scene surveyed
Last call
4 AM
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Thursday, April 08, 2004
Stranger
A stranger
Down the street
On the roof
No more
In the air – out in space
Tacked to the sky
Frozen for an instant
so I could see
Shock, disbelief
Run to where he fell
bent and broken, alone
Who is he, will he make it
Wondering -
no news
Driven to know, to hear
How he is, is he alone
Act of will, of submission,
Of service
Called me to the scene,
to his room
A mother’s son
Dealing with
another challenge,
another test
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Down the street
On the roof
No more
In the air – out in space
Tacked to the sky
Frozen for an instant
so I could see
Shock, disbelief
Run to where he fell
bent and broken, alone
Who is he, will he make it
Wondering -
no news
Driven to know, to hear
How he is, is he alone
Act of will, of submission,
Of service
Called me to the scene,
to his room
A mother’s son
Dealing with
another challenge,
another test
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Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Closeup
My eye
catches,
notices
A small detail
A flower, berry, bug
Flake, fragment
Texture or color
drawn to it
Hold still
Buffer the breeze
Move in
Check the scene
through the lens
Lock arms
hold breath
Exhale just enough
Open the f-spot
angle for light
focus
Freeze
shoot
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catches,
notices
A small detail
A flower, berry, bug
Flake, fragment
Texture or color
drawn to it
Hold still
Buffer the breeze
Move in
Check the scene
through the lens
Lock arms
hold breath
Exhale just enough
Open the f-spot
angle for light
focus
Freeze
shoot
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Monday, April 05, 2004
Two months on the air
Today marks two months for this site. I have posted 134 poems and 23 images so far, plus a link to a PowerPoint presentation and 34 other links.
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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Hold the Anchovies
Agent Ferman of the FBI
Came and looked me in the eye
Grabbed me from my house
I had to be as quiet as a mouse
I did not like it, not one bit
And then they made me sit and sit
I do not like Anchovies, a slimy fish
I do not like them in a dish
I do not like them on a pie
I do not see them in the sky
I do not want them here or there
I do not want them anywhere
And if you think six hours is fine
All that did was made me pine
For freedom from the illegal arrest
That made me confess under duress.
Suppress you must it is true
The Fourth Amendment says that too.
(a poem written about my moot court argument, spring semester 2002).
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Came and looked me in the eye
Grabbed me from my house
I had to be as quiet as a mouse
I did not like it, not one bit
And then they made me sit and sit
I do not like Anchovies, a slimy fish
I do not like them in a dish
I do not like them on a pie
I do not see them in the sky
I do not want them here or there
I do not want them anywhere
And if you think six hours is fine
All that did was made me pine
For freedom from the illegal arrest
That made me confess under duress.
Suppress you must it is true
The Fourth Amendment says that too.
(a poem written about my moot court argument, spring semester 2002).
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
Quiet
Quiet
in the law school
Late at night,
after papers, exams
Between time
Late March,
Early April
Still halls
Empty rooms
Tidy, Calm
Lights hum
Vents blow
A silent nod
Curt conversation
Rain falling
Warm and wet
Enveloping
Ensuring
Quiet
in the law school
Late at night,
after papers, exams
Between time
Late March,
Early April
Still halls
Empty rooms
Tidy, Calm
Lights hum
Vents blow
A silent nod
Curt conversation
Rain falling
Warm and wet
Enveloping
Ensuring
Quiet
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Friday, April 02, 2004
Bliss
Cup a Joe
bench, turned to the sun
head cocked to the rays
photograys
friendly banter
warmth on my face
time to kill
between studies
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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Image sizes
I discovered that I got a little too ambitious in increasing the sizes of the pictures on the site. I have reduced them again and will check to see how they display on my laptop. I think I'll use that as my template. I didn't want the images all to fall to the bottom, which seems to be happening for smaller screens. Please email me Ray Foss if it is happening to you and I will fine tune the sizing. Thanks.
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All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Plans
For the future
for after
taking shape
buzz in the halls –
Do you know what you’re doing?
Do you have a job?
So much to do, so many moments await
after we wake from the three-year bubble
the pause in the road
For lawyer training
So many paths among us
Wondering, hoping
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for after
taking shape
buzz in the halls –
Do you know what you’re doing?
Do you have a job?
So much to do, so many moments await
after we wake from the three-year bubble
the pause in the road
For lawyer training
So many paths among us
Wondering, hoping
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Monday, March 29, 2004
Sons and Daughters
Uncle Ray! Uncle Ray!
Uncle Ray’s here!
Excited voices,
Greeting my arrival home.
Shouts of my
Nieces and nephews,
Bearing witness to
Their innocence, their love
Filling my heart
Eleven unique, precious souls
Blood of my blood
True individuals
Cherished, loved
Knowing you now
After so many lost years
Giving me more
Than I share with you
Time, wonder, moments
Boys and girls still
But my teachers
Each of you
On how to live my life
Thrilled to share special time
With you
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Uncle Ray’s here!
Excited voices,
Greeting my arrival home.
Shouts of my
Nieces and nephews,
Bearing witness to
Their innocence, their love
Filling my heart
Eleven unique, precious souls
Blood of my blood
True individuals
Cherished, loved
Knowing you now
After so many lost years
Giving me more
Than I share with you
Time, wonder, moments
Boys and girls still
But my teachers
Each of you
On how to live my life
Thrilled to share special time
With you
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
Palmetto
A slower pace
On the Banks
Palmettos sway
Translucent green
Or tawny papyrus
brown
Mesmerize
A northerner
Away from the beach
Under the cabana
Shade, drink, a stack of books
Novels, mysteries –
Spencer novels
Luxuriate in the chair
Summer reading
To while the hours
In the warm
Without watch or watcher
To steal the mood
Bare feet in the sand
A motion over the book
A cord of pelicans slid by
Through the heat waves
Muting the horizon
Warm water,
Flush with jellyfish
Twinges around the ankles
Not refreshing
Slippery water
Saw grass sings
From sand in the breeze
A smell of summer
Before the palmettos
By the house
On the Banks
Palmettos sway
Translucent green
Or tawny papyrus
brown
Mesmerize
A northerner
Away from the beach
Under the cabana
Shade, drink, a stack of books
Novels, mysteries –
Spencer novels
Luxuriate in the chair
Summer reading
To while the hours
In the warm
Without watch or watcher
To steal the mood
Bare feet in the sand
A motion over the book
A cord of pelicans slid by
Through the heat waves
Muting the horizon
Warm water,
Flush with jellyfish
Twinges around the ankles
Not refreshing
Slippery water
Saw grass sings
From sand in the breeze
A smell of summer
Before the palmettos
By the house
================
edited November 2, 2018
Palmetto – v2
March 23, 2004
Palmetto
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beach, brown, Faith, Family, feet, God, grass, green, hope,
house, Nature, poetry, senses, sing, smells, summer, water,
#beach #brown #Faith #Family #feet #God #grass #green #hope
#house #Nature #poetry #senses #sing #smells #summer #water
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Smell of Rain
The smell
Of recent rain
Hit my nose
Cold
From melting
Winter’s grip
Of recent rain
Hit my nose
Cold
From melting
Winter’s grip
Friday, March 26, 2004
More photos, and larger size
I have increased the size of the photos that come up on the screen and I have added more, so there are now 23 that load with the site.
Hope you like them. I took all of them.
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Hope you like them. I took all of them.
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Pool or Chess
He prowled the room
Around the table
Intent
Focused
Body bent, contorted
To make this shot
and the next, already planned
from angle and motion,
just enough
to sink it
Be ready
A miscue, a pause
to think
lick the new butt from the pack
light the spark
feel the heat
Laugh for effect
Through affable eyes
Work the table
Ball on ball
Smoke and music
Lean into the glass
Slide down the throat
Smile
Laugh at the banter
A Game, not so important
but for him, a challenge
a test of will, control where he can
Easy on his feet and in a crowd
Working the room
as he does, everyman and friend
comfortable confidante
Eight ball in corner pocket
Sweet
Around the table
Intent
Focused
Body bent, contorted
To make this shot
and the next, already planned
from angle and motion,
just enough
to sink it
Be ready
A miscue, a pause
to think
lick the new butt from the pack
light the spark
feel the heat
Laugh for effect
Through affable eyes
Work the table
Ball on ball
Smoke and music
Lean into the glass
Slide down the throat
Smile
Laugh at the banter
A Game, not so important
but for him, a challenge
a test of will, control where he can
Easy on his feet and in a crowd
Working the room
as he does, everyman and friend
comfortable confidante
Eight ball in corner pocket
Sweet
=====
edited July 23, 2015
Pool or Chess – v3
(editing version 2)
edited February 1, 2014
Pool or Chess – v2
March 26, 2004
Pool or Chess
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2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016.
All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for
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Wednesday, March 24, 2004
People Call Me Tony (The Fatal Dive lament)
Anthony, Oh Anthony
Why didn’t you pass the test
At the wheel
Crash, “not exactly”
Red stuff on the water
Dick, nice job
Killed in the chop
Zodiac no help
Ann in spirals
Eagle eye blind
Flag flapping too far
Tom, Tom, Tom
Buddy indeed
What a mess
You all made
My afternoon shot
Loop on loop
Branches of the tree
Or sections of bramble
Again and again
Hearing your voices
One occurrence
Risk, duty
Probable loss
Deep pockets
Empty pockets
Depreciated truck
Reasonable person
Where are you?
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Why didn’t you pass the test
At the wheel
Crash, “not exactly”
Red stuff on the water
Dick, nice job
Killed in the chop
Zodiac no help
Ann in spirals
Eagle eye blind
Flag flapping too far
Tom, Tom, Tom
Buddy indeed
What a mess
You all made
My afternoon shot
Loop on loop
Branches of the tree
Or sections of bramble
Again and again
Hearing your voices
One occurrence
Risk, duty
Probable loss
Deep pockets
Empty pockets
Depreciated truck
Reasonable person
Where are you?
All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage. See all 18,700+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
Monday, March 22, 2004
Adam Asked
Adam asked
About Dad and what he did
Saturday night.
An interest
In his family
In a grandfather
Gone since he
Was five year old
Someone he never knew.
How do you describe
Who someone was
Or what they did
Or what made them tick?
The oldest grandchild
Just before sixteen
He didn’t know about
My father, his grandfather
A computer wiz, a workaholic
A solitary man who
Was apart from
Us but
Who I was happy
To describe
For him.
A man who made computers
Design and manufacture
Who could see geometry
And knew the code
To make it real
Who traveled around the world
For his work
Who could lose
Himself in the commands
For hours before the screen
And keyboards.
About Dad and what he did
Saturday night.
An interest
In his family
In a grandfather
Gone since he
Was five year old
Someone he never knew.
How do you describe
Who someone was
Or what they did
Or what made them tick?
The oldest grandchild
Just before sixteen
He didn’t know about
My father, his grandfather
A computer wiz, a workaholic
A solitary man who
Was apart from
Us but
Who I was happy
To describe
For him.
A man who made computers
Design and manufacture
Who could see geometry
And knew the code
To make it real
Who traveled around the world
For his work
Who could lose
Himself in the commands
For hours before the screen
And keyboards.
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edited
December 29, 2015
Demons
– v2
edited
December 29, 2015
Did
You Hear Her Cry – v2
edited
December 29, 2015
The
Crash – v2
edited
December 18, 2015
The
Submariner – v2
&
edited
December 17, 2015
Meticulous
– v2
&
edited
December 18, 2015
Adam
Asked – v2
==========
edited
October 22, 2015
Did
you brace for impact – v2
edicted
October 22, 2015
Mile
Marker 19 – v8
(editing
original)
edited October
5, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v9
(editing
version 5)
&
edited October
3, 2015
Why on this
day – v3
(editing
original)
edited October
19, 2014
Why on this
day – v2
July 1, 2014
Why on this
day
“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
&
edited June 27, 2014
A vivid memory – v2
June 27, 2014
A vivid memory
Matthew 28:20
(NRSV)
Romans 8:31-39
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
“In Dark Times”
by Don Greeley
about Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder
for June 26,
2014
read June 27,
2014
Upper Room
Daily Devotional
for March and
April 2014
&
edited August
15, 2015
Here it comes
– v3
(editing
version 2)
edited January
12, 2014
Here it comes
– v2
January 12,
2014
Here it comes
January 12,
2014
I am not ready
(conversation
by Dean McKenney about his
bad car
accident 40 years ago)
January 12,
2014
an accounting
to God
January 12,
2014
Honor their
walk
Romans
14:10-12
Romans 14:1-12
Romans 14
Men’s Bible
Study
led by Steve
Curtis
Stetson
Memorial United Methodist Church
Patten, ME
January 12,
2014
&
edited August
4, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v8
(editing
version 5)
edited
May 9, 2015
Ten
Years – v2
April
23, 2004
Ten
Years
see
also
-------
edited
January 11, 2014
Mile
Marker 19 – v7
(editing
version 6)
Edited
November 9, 2013
Mile
Marker 19 – v6
(editing
version 3)
-------
edited March
21, 2015
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v7
(editing
version 5)
edited
December 3, 2014
Like the Venus
Fly Trap – v6
(editing
version 3)
Edited
November 9, 2013
“Like the
Venus Fly Trap – v5”
Edited
October 24, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v4”
Edited
October 11, 2013
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v3”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Like
the Venus Fly Trap”
edited
February 11, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v9”
edited
January 4, 2014
“hiding
in the ice – v8”
(editing
version 5)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v7”
(editing version 3)
Edited
September 28, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v6”
(editing
version 2)
Edited
September 25, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v5”
Edited
August 2, 2013
“hiding
in the ice – v4”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v3”
Edited
December 21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice – v2”
December
21, 2012
“hiding
in the ice”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Animated
/ Evil”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
latent danger – v3”
December
20, 2012
“A
latent danger – v2”
“A
latent danger”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Smiling
in the freezing”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“A
frozen trap – v2
December
20, 2012
“A
frozen trap”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“was
the road innocent – v2”
December
21, 2012
“was
the road innocent”
Edited
December 26, 2012
“Did
the ice know – v2”
December
20, 2012
“Did
the ice know”
series
of new poems
also
about my father’s death,
after
reviewing poem by Jacob Montgomery,
“Icy
Lanes”,
(see
more of his poems at:
and
exchanging emails with him about that poem
and
my father’s death
2/14/1991
&
Edited
August 22, 2013
“eyes
not shut – v2”
August 22,
2013
“eyes not
shut”
a poem in conjured
after reading poem
“TATTOOS AND ATTITUDE”
by Chip Bergeron
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
new
poem, “Did you brace for impact”
&
Edited
September 20, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v5”
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v4”
editing
version 2 below
&
Edited
September 12, 2012
“Mile
Marker 19 – v3”
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”
&
October
2, 2011
Did
You Hear Her Cry
after
rereading earlier poem,
“Mile
Marker 19”
&
Edited April
23, 2013
“No Life in
Your Eyes – v2”
February 11,
2011
“No Life in
Your Eyes”
remembering
the 20th anniversary
of my father’s
death, February 14, 1991
written at the
House of Purpose coffeehouse
Hillsboro, NH
February 11,
2011
&
new
poem February 11, 2014
Where
you are scattered
posted
March 22, 2004
written
2/26/2001
Adam
Asked
posted
March 18, 2004
written
March 6, 2001
Meticulous
posted
March 17, 2004
written
3/2/2001 and 3/5/2001
The
Submariner
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Ashes”
posted
February 18, 2004
March
2, 2001
“Home
Again”
&
posted
March 10, 2004
written
April 3, 2001 8:47am
Demons
&
posted
February 14, 2004
(the
13th anniversary of my father’s fatal accident)
written
June 18, 2001 10:54pm
The
Crash
about my father's death
February 14, 1991
and
my car accident
the
day I applied to law school
&
posted
February 8, 2004
original
version written 5/20/2000
“Mile
Marker 19”
posted
to my blog on February 8, 2004,
as
the 15th 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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poems and photographs 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 (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for
usage. See all 40,470+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
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