Captured within its body - v3

Three mouths, all screaming,
as if a wooden gargoyle,
just above the earth,
frozen, with mouths open,
as were the creatures of Narnia,
Who dared to challenge the queen...
 
A soul crying out,
deep with its fibers,
held for an eternity,
Captured within its body
the trunk of the tree...
 
Plants, leaves, the underbrush,
cleared from around it,
exposing the tortured soul,
Captured within its body
the trunk of the tree...

 
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Edited January 19, 2024
Captured within its body – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body-v3.html
Edited January 18, 2024
Captured within its body – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body-v2.html
January 17, 2024
Captured within its body
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body.html
7:31 AM · Jan 17, 2024
behind SouthState Bank,
A1A S,
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA

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Poetry, soul, spirit, nature, tree, gargoyle, trapped, imprisoned, frozen, Narnia,
 
#poetry #soul #spirit #nature #tree #gargoyle #trapped #imprisoned #frozen #Narnia

Captured within its body - v2

A soul crying out,
deep with its fibers,
held for an eternity,
Captured within its body
the trunk of the tree...
 
The plants, the underbrush,
cleared from around it,
exposing the tortured soul,
Captured within its body
the trunk of the tree...
 
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Edited January 18, 2024
Captured within its body – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body-v2.html
January 17, 2024
Captured within its body
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body.html
7:31 AM · Jan 17, 2024
behind SouthState Bank,
A1A S,
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA

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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Poetry, soul, spirit, nature, tree, gargoyle, trapped, imprisoned, frozen, Narnia,
 
#poetry #soul #spirit #nature #tree #gargoyle #trapped #imprisoned #frozen #Narnia
 

Captured within its body

A soul crying out,
Deep with its fibers
Held for an eternity,
Captured within its body...
 
The plants, the underbrush,
Cleared from around it,
Exposing the tortured soul,
Captured within its body...
 
---------------------
January 17, 2024
Captured within its body
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/01/captured-within-its-body.html
7:31 AM · Jan 17, 2024
behind SouthState Bank,
A1A S,
St. Augustine Beach, Florida, USA

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.
 
---------------
Poetry, soul, spirit, nature, tree, gargoyle, trapped, imprisoned, frozen, Narnia,
 
#poetry #soul #spirit #nature #tree #gargoyle #trapped #imprisoned #frozen #Narnia

A face in the tree – v4

A face in the tree,
puffed up, bellicose, pouting,
a character from a Dickens' novel,
staring back at me, himself,
standing on a London street.
 
A face in the tree,
the trunk to be more accurate,
its gray bark revealing...
"Harrumph, I take umbrage,
at this trifle, your bit of whimsy."
 

A face in the tree,
aging as we ponder
the great questions of life,
minor offenses, entanglements,
each frozen in time.
 
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edited December 2, 2021

A face in the tree – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v4.html

edited December 2, 2021

A face in the tree – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v3.html

edited December 1, 2021

A face in the tree – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v2.html

December 1, 2021

A face in the tree

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree.html

 

poetry, nature, God, photograph, tree, face, bark, Charles Dickens, novel, character, London, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Mr. Pumblechook, Bill Sikes, Grimwig, Samuel Pickwick,

 

#poetry #nature #God #photograph #tree #bark #face #CharlesDickens #novel #character #London #OliverTwist #GreatExpectations #MrPumblechook #BillSikes #Grimwig #Pickwick

 

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.

A face in the tree – v3

A face in the tree,
puffed up, bellicose, pouting,
a character from a Dickens' novel,
staring back at me, himself,
standing on a London street.
 
A face in the tree,
the trunk to be more accurate,
its gray bark revealing...
"Harrumph, I take umbrage,
at this trifle, your bit of whimsy."
 
A face in the tree,
aging as we ponder
the great questions of life,
life's little peccadilloes,
imbroglios, frozen in time.
 
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edited December 2, 2021

A face in the tree – v3

 

edited December 1, 2021

A face in the tree – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v2.html

December 1, 2021

A face in the tree

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree.html

 

poetry, nature, God, photograph, tree, face, bark, Charles Dickens, novel, character, London, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Mr. Pumblechook, Bill Sikes, Grimwig, Samuel Pickwick,

 

#poetry #nature #God #photograph #tree #bark #face #CharlesDickens #novel #character #London #OliverTwist #GreatExpectations #MrPumblechook #BillSikes #Grimwig #Pickwick

 

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.

A face in the tree - v2

A face in the tree,
the trunk to be more accurate...
"Harrumph, I take umbrage,
at this trifle, this bit of whimsy."

A face in the tree,
puffed up, bellicose, pouting,
a character from a Dickens' novel,
standing on a London street.

A face in the tree,
aging as we ponder
the great questions of life,
life's little peccadillos,
Imbroglios, frozen in time.

------

edited December 1, 2021

A face in the tree – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v2.html

December 1, 2021

A face in the tree

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree.html

 

poetry, nature, God, photograph, tree, face, bark, Charles Dickens, novel, character, London, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Mr. Pumblechook, Bill Sikes, Grimwig,

 

#poetry #nature #God #photograph #tree #bark #face #CharlesDickens #novel #character #London #OliverTwist #GreatExpectations #MrPumblechook #BillSikes

 

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. 

A face in the tree

A face in the tree,
the trunk to be more accurate...
"Harrumph, I take umbrage,
at your bit of whimsy."
 
A face in the tree,
puffed up, pouting,
a character from Dickens,
on a London street.
 
A face in the tree,
aging as we ponder
the great questions of life,
life's little peccadillos,
Imbroglios, frozen in time.

------

edited December 2, 2021

A face in the tree – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v4.html

edited December 2, 2021

A face in the tree – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v3.html

edited December 1, 2021

A face in the tree – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree-v2.html

December 1, 2021

A face in the tree

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-face-in-tree.html

 

poetry, nature, God, photograph, tree, face, bark, Charles Dickens, novel, character, London, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, Mr. Pumblechook, Bill Sikes, Grimwig, Samuel Pickwick,

 

#poetry #nature #God #photograph #tree #bark #face #CharlesDickens #novel #character #London #OliverTwist #GreatExpectations #MrPumblechook #BillSikes #Grimwig #Pickwick

 

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. 

A bob-house office

the sleds on the pavement

the house on dry ground

the fire in the cabin

the one-room shack

Smoke from the chimney

painted on the blue sky

a bob-house office

in the parking lot

December 15, 2012

Christmas tree lot on Rte 3

in Hooksett, NH by

R&R Public Wholesale

1371 Hooksett Road

Hooksett, NH 03106

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 21,720+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

The tickle of its needles

My feet, cold from the water
slogging through the marshes
the reeds, the meadow
rising into the arbor
the cold closing around us
the nursery overgrown
thick with bramble, whispers
echoes of other falls
families in mischief

The tickle of its needles
against my bristled cheek
our prized new possession
the tree for the living room
hefted on my back, slung
so like scenes of A Christmas Carol
Tiny Tim upon my shoulder
wishes of a happy Christmas
in the weight of the tree
fresh-cut from the forest


December 12, 2011
our Christmas tree adventure
Pembroke, NH
&
Worship Theme of Joy
John 1:6-8, 19-28
Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11
1 Thessalonians 5:16-24
Advent Candlelighting liturgy for Third Sunday of Advent
by Amy C. Wake
And sermon, “When you know who’s coming”
By Pastor Ruth Foss
http://www.facebook.com/pastorruthfoss
http://www.ahandmaidenofthelord.blogspot.com
http://pastorruth.posterous.com/
A Handmaiden of the Lord
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
http://facebook.com/groups/136632035559/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Suncook-United-Methodist-Church/102221356487965
Suncook, NH
December 11, 2011
Third Sunday of Advent

All of my poems are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage.
See all 14,300+ of my poems at Poetry Where You Live.