Alabaster Air – v2

I can remember a night,
a hushed quiet night,
when I sat and melted
into the Alabaster air…
bleed from me the cares of the day,
wash me of my stress.
 
I can feel the stillness in the dusk,
wrap me in the cooling,
draw the night to my breast,
Alabaster air within me,
hear my subtle breath,
slowing in my chest.
 
----------
Edited February 8, 2024
Alabaster Air – v2
 
July 25, 2006 19:41
Alabaster Air
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/07/alabaster-air.html
 
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, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.
 
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Mood Indigo – v2 - repost

Ancient Jazz incarnate
rising from his seat
clarinet in hand
sharing a prayer with us
 
Slowly, oh so slowly,
melting into the notes, the lyrics
another place and time
the song, Mood Indigo
 
Ancient growl of the tune
rhythm, melody
whine of his clarinet
drawing us all in to
the Mood Indigo
 
-----------------

edited February 21, 2022

Night in New Orleans - v5

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v5.html

&

edited November 18, 2018

Mood Indigo – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html

November 16, 2018

Mood Indigo

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html

May 1993

Mood Indigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts

by Willie Humphrey

(93 years old in 1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band

Preservation Hall

&

edited November 16, 2018

Nice Tie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html

8/7/04 18:05

Nice Tie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html

partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/

of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/

at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club

https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/

http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 

726 St. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA

He was the bass player for the band and

he was the bass player in

“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie

Angel Heart (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

I gave him my tie, right off my neck

(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at

Downtown Crossing in Boston).

&

edited April 27, 2015

Congo Square – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 4, 2018

Amazing Grace – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited April 16, 2015

Amazing Grace – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html

July 12, 2004 18:56 –

Amazing Grace

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html

Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville

at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest

https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 

https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage

http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm

during a real wedding.

The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.

I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage

in the French Quarter that night.

&

edited April 13, 2015

Congo Square – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html

July 12, 2004 19:15.

Congo Square

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html

Congo Square, special area at the

1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

&

Edited December 6, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html

(editing original version)

Edited December 5, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html

Edited September 20, 2012

Night in New Orleans – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html

Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST

edited December 6, 2001

Night in New Orleans

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html

mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993

and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996

 

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, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

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

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

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

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---------------

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Menemsha – v3

Menemsha, a village where time forgot
to reset the clock, frozen,
Where homes are clad in grey
hiding a joy in starting the day.
 
Menemsha, a place of sky and sun
sand and beach to have some fun
A fishing town, a fishing fleet
at the end of its main street.
 
Menemsha, the Atlantic, stormy sea,
calling you, calling me.
 
------------------

edited December 21, 2021

Menemsha – v3

 

edited December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/there-is-something-about-menemsha.html

December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-is-something-about-menemsha.html

Edited July 31, 2013

Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/menemsha-v2.html

July 23, 2006 18:05

Menemsha

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/07/menemsha.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menemsha,_Massachusetts

 

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, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

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There is something about #Menemsha - v2

There is something about Menemsha
out on Martha's Vineyard,
other worldly, anachronistic,
salty, frozen in time.
 
The boats, the water,
the sun-dried houses,
a reminder to us all
of what used to be.
 
There is something about Menemsha
that we seek, that we long for,
chasing nostalgia
safe and secure.
------------------

edited December 21, 2021

Menemsha – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/menemsha-v3.html

edited December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/there-is-something-about-menemsha.html

December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-is-something-about-menemsha.html

Edited July 31, 2013

Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/menemsha-v2.html

July 23, 2006 18:05

Menemsha

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/07/menemsha.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menemsha,_Massachusetts

 

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, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

America, beach, creator, Faith, Family, God, home, hope, joy, July, Martha's Vineyard, Menemsha, Nature, New Hampshire, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, sky, sun,

 

#America #beach #Family #God #home #MarthasVineyard #Menemsha #Nature #poem #poetry #sky #sun

There is something about #Menemsha

There is something about Menemsha
out on the #Vineyard
other worldly, anachronistic,
frozen in time.
 
The boats, the water,
the sun-dried houses,
reminder us all
of what used to be.
 
------------------

edited December 21, 2021

Menemsha – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/menemsha-v3.html

edited December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/there-is-something-about-menemsha.html

December 20, 2021

There is something about Menemsha

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-is-something-about-menemsha.html

Edited July 31, 2013

Menemsha – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/menemsha-v2.html

July 23, 2006 18:05

Menemsha

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/07/menemsha.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menemsha,_Massachusetts

 

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, 2019, 2020, and 2021. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

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Future #Curmudgeons – v5

I can see them, so specific,

Now standing by the water,

Fifty years from now

Two old friends, by then

Friendly banter, tall tales,

Fish stories between them.

 

There they were, together,

On the bank of the pond,

In their element, confident,

Seven or nine years old,

No more than that, surely,

Best friends, fishermen on the hunt.

 

Fishing poles, tackle box,

Knotted line, worms,

All organic, simple

A net between them -

Thick with the muck and wet,

As they try to catch the big one

 

Hornpout and koi, and goldfish

As big as their arms

Just out of reach

In the murk, deeper,

Or surfacing, the shallows,

Too near to forget.

 

Seasoned veterans,

Watching their casts,

Already, or so they seem,

On their own, children,

In the park, the heat,

Under the July sunlight.

 

No knee or hip waders yet,

No hidden fishing holes in secret,;

But they will come, of that I am certain,

Along with more practiced yarns

Recited with echoes of memory,

When they are older fishermen.

 

-------------------

edited July 3, 2021

Future Curmudgeons – v5

 

edited November 15, 2018

Future Curmudgeons – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/future-curmudgeons-v4.html

edited November 15, 2018

Future Curmudgeons – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/future-curmudgeons-v3.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1063070489642446848

(to be able to post to Twitter)

November 15, 2018

Posted as sections

1 – https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1063059422052782081

2 – https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1063059377916178432

3 – https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1063059343682220033

edited November 15, 2018

Future Curmudgeons – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/future-curmudgeons-v2.html

July 10, 2004

Future Curmudgeons

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/future-curmudgeons.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 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live

 

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Mood Indigo – v2

Ancient Jazz incarnate

rising from his seat

clarinet in hand

sharing a prayer with us

Slowly, oh so slowly,

melting into the notes, the lyrics

another place and time

the song, Mood Indigo

Ancient growl of the tune

rhythm, melody

whine of his clarinet

drawing us all in to

the Mood Indigo

-----------------

edited November 18, 2018

Mood Indigo – v2

November 16, 2018

Mood Indigo

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html

May 1993

Mood Indigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts

by Willie Humphrey

(93 years old in 1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band

Preservation Hall

&

edited November 16, 2018

Nice Tie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html

8/7/04 18:05

Nice Tie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html

partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/

of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/

at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club

https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/

http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 

726 St. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA

He was the bass player for the band and

he was the bass player in

“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie

Angel Heart (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

I gave him my tie, right off my neck

(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at

Downtown Crossing in Boston).

&

edited April 27, 2015

Congo Square – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 4, 2018

Amazing Grace – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited April 16, 2015

Amazing Grace – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html

July 12, 2004 18:56 –

Amazing Grace

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html

Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville

at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest

https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 

https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage

http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm

during a real wedding.

The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.

I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage

in the French Quarter that night.

&

edited April 13, 2015

Congo Square – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html

July 12, 2004 19:15.

Congo Square

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html

Congo Square, special area at the

1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

&

Edited December 6, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html

(editing original version)

Edited December 5, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html

Edited September 20, 2012

“Night in New Orleans – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html

Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST

edited December 6, 2001

“Night in New Orleans

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html

mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993

and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996

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, and 2018. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 48,090 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

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

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

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

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February Heat – v2

Broad smile in my soul

as parka was replaced

with a polo, white on white,

with greens and garish

A wall of heat

a blanket, a caress

for my thickened

Yankee blood.

Sweat down my back

stuck to the streetcar,

though not Desire

on St. Charles Street.

Canal and Decatur

and Bourbon again.

Memories rushed

back of earlier visits

Oh to stay, to linger

to wander the streets again

to lounge, to luxuriate,

to bask in the February heat.

========

edited November 17, 2018

February Heat – v2

8/7/04 18:11

February Heat

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/february-heat.html

New Orleans

February 1996

when I interviewed at Tulane

&

November 16, 2018

Mood Indigo

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html

May 1993

Mood Indigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts (1980)

by Willie Humphrey

(93 years old in 1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band

Preservation Hall

&

edited November 16, 2018

Nice Tie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html

8/7/04 18:05

Nice Tie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html

partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/

of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/

at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club

https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/

http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 

726 St. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA

He was the bass player for the band and

he was the bass player in

“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie

Angel Heart (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

I gave him my tie, right off my neck

(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at

Downtown Crossing in Boston).

&

edited April 27, 2015

Congo Square – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 4, 2018

Amazing Grace – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited April 16, 2015

Amazing Grace – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html

July 12, 2004 18:56 –

Amazing Grace

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html

Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville

at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest

https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 

https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage

http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm

during a real wedding.

The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.

I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage

in the French Quarter that night.

&

edited April 13, 2015

Congo Square – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html

July 12, 2004 19:15.

Congo Square

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html

Congo Square, special area at the

1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

&

Edited December 6, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html

(editing original version)

Edited December 5, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html

Edited September 20, 2012

“Night in New Orleans – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html

Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST

edited December 6, 2001

“Night in New Orleans

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html

mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993

and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996

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