Barry in the Morning

He’s on the stereo
Smoky, sultry,
Words dripping
After waking,
Start of day

You in my arms
Smell of you
Touch, Kiss,
Linger on your neck
Dance in the kitchen
Pull you in close

Down the road
With me in the car
Bass throbbing in the speaker
Sing along to our words
Openly, wanting you

Away from you, my dear
But you’re with me
Your scent, smile,
Your Love

With me
And Barry in the morning

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Arc of the Sky

Warming blue
Across the arc of the dome
He left for us after the Flood
Daubs of color
Dabbed on the sky
Pristine edges
Glinted and glowing
Past dawn

Frozen breath
Frost on the
orange, red, yellow
Fall foliage
Green grass
Cold windshields
Parked cars

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Red Sox in Four

Eight straight
ain't it great
A nation in joy
because of our boys

Won in strong fashion
with luck, pitching and passion
A night with a lunar eclipse
song of joy on our lips

Here's to the Red Sox Nation
in a state of utter jubilation

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Waking Sky

A fall sky in slumber
warming fan brush strokes,
horsehair bristles,
pushed across the fall tableau
Deep burgundies and dark below
Headlights on

Down the road
round the bend
the view brighter
champagne and plumb and wisp
a bluing of the sky

Another wind
down the twisting backroad
translucent yellows
screens of color

Farther on
white takes the stage
above a fireball flame sun

Then the sun filled
the windshield below the visor
warming my face
on this fall morning
after the dark

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

edited February 3, 2017

Waking Sky – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/02/waking-sky-v2.html

Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:07

Waking Sky

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/10/waking-sky.html

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Christian poetry, colors, Driving, Faith, faith poetry, God, hope, king, light, Nature, New Hampshire, poem, poetry, Poetry Where You Live, praise poetry, sky, sun, white, wind, yellow,

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Her Name

Her name on my lips
her song in my heart

A marathon finished
waiting for laurels

A race won but
New beginnings

A new life
new challenges
mountains to climb
Together

10/25/2004
(first poem about Ruth)

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Hair Cut

A grand presentation
the three of us
early one Sunday morning
just before Easter

A grand march
with appropriate solemnity
orange Easy-Bake Oven mixing bowl
festooned in his outstretched hands
with her locks, curls, hair

Safety scissors
weren’t really safe,
now were they
from little hands
and minds with industry and mischief

Bows that would have to be taped
to hide the artistry of these craftsmen
a little too successful in their trade

Shock of the audience – mom and dad
woken from slumber
to the sight
of our grand presentation
that morning.

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Written on My Heart

Wow!

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Sports Bacchanalia

Red Sox, Patriots,
UNH Hockey.
Soccer, football, NASCAR
and others
too great to number

Budweiser, Cape Cod chips
Nachos, Pepto
Oh I can't wait
for rest and
for slumber

Cardinals, cold fall air
bring on the Series
Where's the clicker,
the remote,
My eyes are bleary

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Red Sox Win

Red Sox win
Yankees lose
A story so big
It led the news

Bumped politics
Down the page
It may even reduce
New England road rage

A-Rod and Jeter
What can be sweeter
Oh look,
We caught a cheater

Taking two from them
In their park
Big Papi
Was our spark

Down and out
A three-oh slide
Not the end for this
Team with Pride

Red Sox Nation
Delirious
This whole World Series
Will be just as serious.

Reverse the Curse
All these ages
So this club’s history

Will fill more pages



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I got a chance to meet poet Natasha Trethewey on the Mall in Washington, DC last weekend as part of the 2004 National Book Festival (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/), in the Poetry Pavilion (http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/pavilions/poetry/index.html).

Here's their page on her:
http://www.loc.gov/bookfest/04/authors/bios/trethewey.html

Also check out Natasha's page at Emory:
http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/faculty/trethewey.html

Great imagery in her work, and a fascinating melding of cultures in her genealogy and life experience.

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Cross

Spreading intersected contrails
Like the frost lines off the skates
in Fantasia’s winter scene

Growing, living crystals
written on water vapor, molecules
not celluloid

Purposeful strokes, thrust across the sky
warming and fading, dying
in the October sunset

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Contrail

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Half a V

A living line
row of stitches
snaking across the sky
Geese heading south
with only half a V

Discordant sight
Out of sync
Struggling
for warmer climes

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Quartermaster

Corner store,
Hole in the wall,
loaded for every need

A story of Storyville and how its
done down in the Big Easy
Inspectors and the men in blue
On the make, on the take
Look the other way for a stake

Brash and bare
owner and soapbox,
Ready audience –
Transplanted northerner,
interested transient

Bag of cold crawdads
Spicy and fresh
Twist and eat, such fingers
Carcasses in the drum by my feet
Drinking in the yarn
Of the storyteller.


10/1/04 22:50

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Aurora

Below the dome of the stars
in the February sky
Pull over to the shoulder
Visible breath

Dancing lights, flickering stars
sway to the images
Stored on rods and cones
Turquoise and ruby red grapefruit
Pale canary and pure blue

Froze me for a while
Separated from my journey
By the light show,
the echo of the solar flares

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10/1/04 22:40
Aurora
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/10/aurora.html
Claremont to Durham,
regular drive, autopilot
Rtes 103, 114, 9, 89, 4
Exit 5, New England College down the road
Aurora Borealis that night
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The Pumpkin is Calling

The coachman’s at the door
Checking his watch
He knows the score,
The sequence, the deadline

Down the road
Heeding the call,
the end of the magic
Door closing too soon
As night, PM
Crosses to ‘Morn

Sitter watching TV
and the clock
Meter running
Another hour, a few more dollars
Before the gong
When the coach
Reverts to reality


10/1/04 23:40


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Celestial Squid

Off in the distance
Rising heavenward before me
as I draw toward home,
late this September afternoon

White lines in the sky
Hanging like aquatic arms
Below the glinting
silver belly of the beast

Elongating in my vision
as I stick my head out the window
at the stop light, joining the other gawkers

Aerial tendrils,
Vapor and vacuous ephemera
Lost in the jet stream
Like morning steam above the pond
or faces in a cloud


10/1/04 21:15

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Rave

Heads snap at the Yankee white boy
Anachronistic and jarring
Tie dyed top hat
Garish and loud
Quilted and heavy

Little Shop of Fantasy
Decatur Street, Nuh Orlins
Where Dr. John got his voodoo sticks
For an Arkansas President and bad boy

A little grie-grie for me
To strut and stagger on the street
the Fairgrounds
Change of attitude or perspective
Ready to join a Krewe, a parade,
or jazz funeral procession
on Bourbon
Down in the Quarter


10/1/04 22:15

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Water or Dust

Two tales of the same story
of where it all began
Why it is as it is

Creation, the start of something
Liquid chaos or dust on dry land

Making sense of the void
and our place in it.

Gen 1 v. Gen 2

10/1/04 21:30

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Living Emulsion

Family photos
written on faces
For better
And worse

Your grandfather’s eyes
Mother’s nose,
Your father’s hairline
(Sorry about that)

Living emulsion
Images of our predecessors
We see everyday
In the mirror


10/1/04 23:00

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300 Poems

As of tonight, I have posted 300 poems on this site since February. Please let me know your favorites, those that could be improved with work, and (well, don't feel obligated to finish the thought).

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Main Character

Oh you know the score, the script, the line,
She’s a character, main one, in her story

Punch line, timing and verve
A tale of a homicidal mood, knife
He didn’t kill her,
(After all she was telling the thread),
And we know why –
“They never kill off the main character”

Just ask Kirk, Shatner.
Always the new guy,
With no history, name in lights
Fall guy for our star,
At least in her mind…


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Bean

The bean is our friend
Java, joe, latte or espresso
To go or at home
Rich and jazzed
Or decaf and brown
Whole or ground
Flavored or straight
It always tastes great


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Bar - relief

I passed!!

NH Bar

Twelve hours and counting to find out the Bar results.

Vernal Pool

http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/types/vernal.html, http://www.vernalpool.org/

Ah, now I can support
The project, the building
The school, the purchase, the land

A vernal pool
Rated X, amphibians
Frog, peeper, salamander
Spring sex and land around the pond
the space, the classes,

Middle school hormones and
vertebrates and invertebrates
Conservation Commission
Another Interest group
On board


Written about the excitement that the Barrington Conservation Commission members had at finding out in 2000 that the site the School District planned to buy and use for a new middle school had a vernal pool on the property. In the summer it wasn't much to get excited about; but, hey, everybody's get their thing. They became supporters of the project. The building was dedicated recently - see http://www.barrington.k12.nh.us/MiddleSchool/Middle.html.


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Gossamer Bags

Gossamer bags
Clutched in the treetops
Drink the morning dew
Glisten in the early light
Tent caterpillar homes, now vacant

Framing, capturing the sun,
High in the trees,
The valley, by the highway
I drive each day
Organic, translucent plastic bags
Coleman mantles
Glowing in the branches


9/20/04 19:41


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When the Belle Rings

Belle - Thanks for your comment on September 4th and for your site. It makes the web richer.

Check out her profile at http://www.blogger.com/profile/4578288 and check out her page at When the Belle Rings - http://whenthebellerings.blogspot.com/. Absolutely beautiful language and imagery. Added to my links as well.

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Tilling in the Field

A motorized voyeur
Driving down the road
By the farm
At the cusp of autumn

A figure toiling in the field, the Garden
In the curtilage of the house and barn
Whiling away a Sunday morning
Movement and color catch the eye
Of the passerby

Blue polar fleece against the cornhusks
And fall’s palette
A hoe cutting the sod and
unwelcome adult weeds

Knowledge of the work, the sweat
The toiling, throughout our lives
Until we return to the dust
From which we came.


9/19/04 14:25 - inspired by a drive on Rte 103 in Bradford, NH this morning and reading about the Fall this afternoon.

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Talking Firmament

Denizens of the Dome
the part above the waters
Celestial orbs and timekeepers
Tracking Day from Night
Proclaiming Your works –
Days, hours, years
Your masterplan
within which We play our part
as master, demigods
Dominion over
All else.


9/12/04 10:30
(Genesis 1:6-7, Psalm 8:4-6, Psalm 19:1-4a)

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Three Years

Three Years
But like yesterday
Remembering the feelings
The steps, actions taken
As the nation awoke, realized
Vulnerabilities (resolve to follow)
Towers fell and we wept
Another innocence lost
In our time, this time
Personal and angry


written September 11, 2004
about September 11, 2001

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