Poetry Where You Live

Wednesday, June 14, 2006

A Carpet of Clover

In the small space
the spare bedroom-sized place
between the maple tree
and the shrub, just beyond
the dandelion patch
a carpet of clover
sways in the June breeze
new blooms bursting
ready for the harvest
of little hands,
of shrieks of joy
and giggles of wonder

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edited March 8, 2018

A Carpet of Clover – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-carpet-of-clover-v3.html

edited October 12, 2014

A Carpet of Clover – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-carpet-of-clover-v2.html

June 14, 2006 6:25am

A Carpet of Clover

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/06/carpet-of-clover.html

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To the Park

To the Park

Here they are,
the giggle sisters
Mischief and Mayhem
(along with their older sister Chaos)
on the way to play
in the park with Daddy
to run and race
to climb and slide
testing his ability
to watch three of them
with two eyes
Free in the sun
after days of rain
time to put dad through his paces
while mom’s at school

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edited March 8, 2018

To the Park – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/03/to-park-v2.html

after finding this poem in a list of my popular poems

on Literary Devices site about my poetry

https://literarydevices.net/raymond-a-foss/

June 14, 2006 5:50am

To the Park

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/06/to-park.html

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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

A Thorn in My Side

I am weak; thank you God
for my humility, for the impediment
to my vanity,
that forces me to rely on you,
on Your Grace

To lean on you and to place my trust
on fertile ground, to heed your call
to do your work, in the vineyard,
calling in the wilderness,
on the distant road, in foreign lands

My trust in you Oh my God
the God of my ancestors, of Abraham
and David
Made flesh in my Savior
my guide on this path you have put me on

Like Moses, with speech
or the pain in Jacob’s hip,
I am of clay, needing your strength,
your grace, to exhort, to testify
to use my gifts
in your service

June 13, 2006 11:01
2 Corinthians 12:2-10

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God’s Grace

What a wonderful gift
undeserved and oh so great
He has given each of us
so blessed are we by the awesome
the wondrous nature of
His benevolence
His love for us
His outpouring in covenant
to His people, those who hear
and know the Master’s voice
paid by the price
of His Son’s blood
for you and me

June 13, 2006 10:49

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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Miss Wendy

Miss Wendy! Miss Wendy!
our three peal out across the driveway,
down the corridor, down the pew
using outside voices where inside would do
Suddenly happier than the instant before

A joy to see her, cling to her
be with her,
sit on her knee,
under the comforting crook of her arm
(if someone else’s child isn’t there yet)

Essential mother to so many
who will miss her
in ways big and oh so small

Hands to wrap their own,
so little it seems sometimes,
strong yet gentle

Safe with Miss Wendy
their teacher, their confidante,
Their friend.

June 10, 2006 2:18pm

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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Rose - closeup - click on image to see full size

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500 POEMS

With the 6 published today, there are now 500 of my poems published to this site.

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Popcorn Experiment

College was wasted on the lot of us
at least in that moment
or maybe it was the intoxication
of a rainy night in the dorm
freshmen year, or maybe the next,
an experiment that shouldn’t have been started
gone horribly wrong

A round electric popcorn popper
sat innocently on the shelf in his room
a bunch of mad scientists
a motley band
decided to take it out for a test
the domed hood was left where it lay
this was a night for risk
let Caution heed her own wind

Who needs a drop cloth?
What could go wrong?
a liberal pool of oil
a pile of corn
A spark of electricity
a round of Molson
And abracadabra
presto-chango

Mayhem and mirth
We had a blast in the moment
dodging hot kernels and fluffy missiles
We had our fun
But a dorm damage bill
awaited each of us
for the BIG round grease stain
that may still be there
Hope mom doesn’t read this
and remember that bill…

June 6, 2006 11:33pm

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Fruit Flies

He was a real lady killer
a women’s man
for sure
an entomologist in training
he had fruit flies
growing, in the dark,
in his desk drawer
living on a poultice
of past-ripe banana
Yum

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edited March 8, 2018

Fruit Flies – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/03/fruit-flies-v2.html

June 6, 2006 11:13pm

Fruit Flies

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.jp/2006/06/fruit-flies.html

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Backwash Worms

Have you ever stood in backwash worms?
Worms and night crawlers that come
to the surface of your yard?
when you empty the diatomaceous earth filter?
of your backyard pool?
I have.
And I still remember
Thirty years later
Squish.

June 6, 2006 11:01pm

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Snowflake

She was white, all white
except where she was pink
soft, cute, and she liked leaf lettuce
Her name was Snowflake
the pretty clear albino bunny
that ate the pink insulation
under the refrigerator
in the corner of the kitchen
She had to go

June 6, 2006 10:54pm

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Without Hindrance

Paul was in Rome, under house arrest
but he received guests, without hindrance,
so ends the book of Acts;
but it is the story of Acts, the sharing,
of unpredictable stars,
milquetoasts who gain spines,
power emboldened disciples speaking
in unknown tongues near and far
of early believers,
a persecutor made proselytizer
of missionaries and martyrs

Giving all or dying for holding back
a time of communal living and squabble
but a moment of proclamation
over and over, without hindrance,
spreading the good news
to the ends of the earth
as eyewitnesses to the creation
the beginning of another age
of love and sacrifice,
of communion and peace
a renewed Eden
if we would just follow His path

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edited August 3, 2019

Without Hindrance – v2

June 6, 2006 10:44pm

Without Hindrance

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/06/without-hindrance.html

Acts 28:30-31

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Handbell Notes

Watching them play
Seeing their notes on the paper
Sensing the fun in practice
in hearing the sheet come alive
Feeling a shake (

)
Never realizing the joy
Captured in the dots and waves
on the printed page.

June 5, 2006 9:10pm
Last Sunday, the Sunday School students – pre-school to grade 5 - practiced the “Little Boy and the Lunch”, by Tammy Waldrop, about the feeding of the 5,000, along with our Handbell Choir. I was reading along to the program/sheet music. The techniques used by the handbell choir included – “Mallet , Pluck, Thumb Damp, Echo , Martellato Lift , Shake, Vibrato, Let Vibrate, Martellato”. To me, it made me giggle. It was Fun! Here is the web page for this the Little Boy and the Lunch - http://www.handbellworld.com/music/MusicPiece.cfm?Piece=11265

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Monday, June 05, 2006

Roses - 6/2/06 - macro lens, 400 speed film, in a light drizzle

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