Showing posts with label untaken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label untaken. Show all posts

Sunday, November 18, 2018

haunted by echoes – v3


#dreams unfulfilled
paths not taken
haunted by echoes
unanswered prayers
steps not taken
dreams still waiting
my heart heavy, broken
fears too great yet
frozen, not moving
stuck in one place
dreams not forgotten
carried in my heart still
though as yet unmet
before death the grave

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edited November 18, 2018
haunted by echoes – v3

(edited to fit on Twitter)
edited November 18, 2018
haunted by echoes – v2
November 18, 2018
a path, a thread, a story repeating
November 18, 2018
haunted by echoes
11/17/18
written at Open Mic
Mak’s Coffee House
59 Main Street
Patten, Maine
&
edited November 17, 2018
Post-Graduate – v2
8/8/04 11:49
Post-Graduate
&
September 29, 2018
friction and gravity
September 29, 2018
a nucleus present
Stakeholder meeting 9/28/18
at Mak’s Coffee House
to discuss ideas for improvements to Patten Academy Park
85 Main Street
Patten, ME 04765
intersection of Rte 11 (Main Street) and Rte 159 (Shin Pond Road)
on the Katahdin Woods and Waters Scenic Byway
including town staff, playground committee,
Patten Area Women’s Club
facilitated by Our Katahdin staff
Katahdin Collaborative
Katahdin Gazetteer

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 48,100 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, John, John 1, Law, leaves, New Hampshire, path, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, school, college, dreams, hope, untaken, writing, reading, novel, poet, writer,

#God #John #John1 #Law #leaves #NewHampshire #path #poem #poetry #school #college #dreams #hope #untaken #writing #reading #novel #poet #writer #calling
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Patten, Maine, ME, Patten Academy, Patten Academy Park, stakeholders, little league, Rec Dept, playground, gazebo, gardens, ball field, ideas, growth, change, possibilities, hope, together, community, dream,

#Patten #Maine #ME #PattenAcademy #PattenAcademyPark #stakeholders #playground #RecDept #gardens #ballfield #ideas #growth #change #possibilities #hope #together #community #dream #KatahdinGazetteer #OurKatahdin @OurKatahdin @KatahdinScenic

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Patten, Maine, ideas, change, hope, together, community, dream, aspirations, calling, prayer, God, Christ, Spirit, fears, fearful, longing, gifts, path, journey, courage,

#Patten #Maine #ideas #growth #change #possibilities #hope #together #community #dream #aspirations #calling #prayer #God #Christ #Spirit #fears #cautious #fearful #longing #gifts #path #journey #courage

a path, a thread, a story repeating


a path, a thread, a story repeating
of a way not yet taken
a thought unfulfilled
left on the shelf
dreams gathering dust
pages in folders unpublished
languishing because of
a path, a thread, a story repeating
of a way not taken
a thought as yet unfulfilled
left on the shelf

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November 18, 2018
a path, a thread, a story repeating

November 18, 2018
haunted by echoes
11/17/18
written at Open Mic
Mak’s Coffee House
59 Main Street
Patten, Maine
&
edited November 17, 2018
Post-Graduate – v2
8/8/04 11:49
Post-Graduate
&
September 29, 2018
friction and gravity
September 29, 2018
a nucleus present
Stakeholder meeting 9/28/18
at Mak’s Coffee House
to discuss ideas for improvements to Patten Academy Park
85 Main Street
Patten, ME 04765
intersection of Rte 11 (Main Street) and Rte 159 (Shin Pond Road)
on the Katahdin Woods and Waters Scenic Byway
including town staff, playground committee,
Patten Area Women’s Club
facilitated by Our Katahdin staff
Katahdin Collaborative
Katahdin Gazetteer

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 48,100 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, John, John 1, Law, leaves, New Hampshire, path, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, school, college, dreams, hope, untaken, writing, reading, novel, poet, writer,

#God #John #John1 #Law #leaves #NewHampshire #path #poem #poetry #school #college #dreams #hope #nottaken #writing #reading #novel #poet #writer #calling
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Patten, Maine, ME, Patten Academy, Patten Academy Park, stakeholders, little league, Rec Dept, playground, gazebo, gardens, ball field, ideas, growth, change, possibilities, hope, together, community, dream,

#Patten #Maine #ME #PattenAcademy #PattenAcademyPark #stakeholders #playground #RecDept #gardens #ballfield #ideas #growth #change #possibilities #hope #together #community #dream #KatahdinGazetteer #OurKatahdin @OurKatahdin @KatahdinScenic

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Patten, Maine, ideas, change, hope, together, community, dream, aspirations, calling, prayer, God, Christ, Spirit, fears, fearful, longing, gifts, path, journey, courage,

#Patten #Maine #ideas #growth #change #possibilities #hope #together #community #dream #aspirations #calling #prayer #God #Christ #Spirit #fears #cautious #fearful #longing #gifts #path #journey #courage

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Post-Graduate – v2


What do we learn from the roads not taken,
of choices made without full exploration?
“What if”, and “where would I be”, if only…
but we cannot go back

I was a Writer at eighteen,
“He leaves to become the next John Steinbeck”
in the Senior Class Will…
But a different path taken

No post-graduate year,
Mr. Paquette’s idea,
of writing and study
exploring a different path

Full-time college instead,
because of Dad’s dread,
the struggle he endured
so many years of night school

Numbers, not words
tapped my precision,
though unconscious decision
simple path taken

Poet at forty, closing the circle
Reading and typing the Law
Leaves me in awe
at the power of words

The same power
That held me back then
and which I use now
to reach a different end.

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edited November 17, 2018
Post-Graduate – v2

8/8/04 11:49
Post-Graduate

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 48,100 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, John 1, Law, leaves, New Hampshire, path, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, school, college, dreams, hope, untaken, writing, reading, novel, poet, writer,


#God #John #John1 #Law #leaves #NewHampshire #path #poem #poetry #school #college #dreams #hope #untaken #writing #reading #novel #poet #writer #calling

Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Post-Graduate

What do we learn from the roads not taken,
of choices made without full exploration?
“What if”, and “where would I be”, if only…

Writer when 18,
“he leaves to become the next John Steinbeck”
But a different path taken

No post-graduate year,
Mr. Paquette’s idea,
of writing and study

Full time college instead,
because of Dad’s dread,
the struggle he endured

Numbers, not words
tapped my precision,
though unconscious decision

Poet at forty, closing the circle
Reading and typing the law
Leaves me in awe
at the power of words
That held me back then
and which I use now
to reach and end.



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edited November 17, 2018
Post-Graduate – v2

8/8/04 11:49
Post-Graduate

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 48,100 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, John, John 1, Law, leaves, New Hampshire, path, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, Raymond A. Foss, school, college, dreams, hope, untaken, writing, reading, novel, poet, writer,


#God #John #John1 #Law #leaves #NewHampshire #path #poem #poetry #school #college #dreams #hope #untaken #writing #reading #novel #poet #writer #calling