Miranda purred

Miranda purred a greeting,
“Good morning sexy lady”
to my beautiful Ruth
that morning after sunrise

Forward in her youth,
happy to see this sensuality,
catlike grace, poise
and pure allure.

She blushed under
her dark skin
I laughed
at the truth
within the patter.


11/5/05 00:42

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Warm Rain

She stood there
still at the rail
at the edge of our balcony
our room in our slice of paradise

The warm Caribbean rain shower
sparkled on her bronze mocha skin
a smile of peace on her lips
and over her closed eyelids

drinking in the freedom
we shared on our island getaway.


11/5/05 00:33


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Stealth Deer

Just off the road
Summer dusk
in the northern woods
the eyes of the deer
caught for an instant
in the light of the high beams
Before melting back
into the trees and brush
Ephemeral forms
fleeting and in greyscale
just out of sight.


11/4/05 23:21


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A Cathedral of Pine

On a floor of needles and leaves
I sat in a cathedral of pine
Five trees encircled my prayer
Limbs knitted like arms
wrapped around my reverie.

Walled off from the world around me
watched only by squirrels,
birds, salamanders, insects,
the other denizens of the
island in the lake

11/4/05 22:32

A hidden sanctuary for one
ringed by lady slippers, ferns, blueberry plants
A stillness in the chaos of that summer
somewhere to ponder, reflect,
slow down and commune
with the hand
of the creator.

11/4/05 23:08

edited December 26, 2014

a chapel prayer closet – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-chapel-prayer-closet-v3.html

(editing version 2 and original version)

edited February 23, 2014

“a chapel prayer closet – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-chapel-prayer-closet-v2.html

edited/new poem February 17, 2014

“a chapel prayer closet

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-chapel-prayer-closet.html

edited February 11, 2014

“A Cathedral of Pine – v3”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-cathedral-of-pine-v3.html

(editing the original again)

Edited May 4, 2013

“A Cathedral of Pine – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-cathedral-of-pine-v2.html

November 4, 2005

 “A Cathedral of Pine”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/11/cathedral-of-pine.html

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Grandpa

Smell of oil, of chlorine
Burn the nose of this six year old
My grandfather in his domain
At the Y, where the guests never see

A handyman, mechanic, custodian
The king of the keys
The power behind the throne
Grease that keeps the gears
in motion.


11/4/05 21:55 – about my maternal grandfather, Laurence F. Ring, when he worked at the Westfield, MA YMCA. When he retired, he was replaced with three.


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Sunapee Street

Rug covered stairs
a landing above me
a place for the lead toy soldiers,
the ceramic cat,
small bottles
Playing by myself
in my grandparents’ home

A quiet special day out
on my own in their company
sharing precious time
vivid now decades hence

Tales of my dad’s youth
frozen in his room as a boy
rope pulley system
for the light’s chain
mounted still over his bed

Treasures in the attic
Her father’s desk
I now own
promised to me
that day

A nap by her side
after lunch of Ritz crackers in milk
My dear Jessie
magic lady of my heart
Thick glasses, but joy in her spirit,
with her flowers,
in her kitchen

11/4/05 21:50

Sunapee Street

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/11/sunapee-street.html

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Laughing in the Rain

No one’s timetable
governed our steps
up with the first light
long before the sun rose
over the slate blue ocean

Wandering between palm and bright blooms
in our own world
together

Watching the hummingbirds
high in the branches above us
camera catching the moments

Suddenly darkening clouds
to snap the equatorial heat
Laughing in the rain
without care or keeper

We were soaked
and in love
alone together
on the island


11/4/05 20:50


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Café du Monde

A plate of small hot beignets
coated in a snow squall
of light powdered sugar

a dense cup of oh so hot
coffee with chicory

at 3:00am, near Jackson Square

Jazz and spice in the air
Before last call,
in the Big Easy

As real now as that moment
Twelve years ago

Open again
after Katrina


11/4/05 20:40


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Pumpkin Massacre

He had a knife!
a willing accomplice
and three accessories before the fact

They didn't stand a chance,
their four young victims
that crisp day in October

The knife blade bit into
the firm ripe skin
Forming ghouls and ghosts
Glowing orange.
from within their hollow shells.

10/29/05 22:42


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Haddock Sky

Layers of clouds
grays and white living sky
with rich visual texture
Rippled screens of space
like the flesh of haddock steaks
overlaid autumnal blues
above fall foliage

10/29/05 22:26

Haddock Sky

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Framed Spaces

A row of picture frames
descends the stairway
from the upstairs to the living room
Four images frozen in time
preserved and presented
for friends and visitors

A fifth frame of wood and wire,
without glass or image,
hangs in space with the others
poised and ready
For another moment of her life
Mounted and preserved
on her wall


10/24/05 20:40

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School Picture Day - 9/30/05 (photos by Ruth)

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Fresh Harvest - Peppers picked at the Woodman Horticultural Farm, UNH, Durham, NH - 9/28/05

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Muses of Spain

Was it the warm winds down from the Pyrenees
Or maybe Poseidon's breath off the Mediterranean
That stirred the Spanish Muses,
Who whispered and giggle and tickled the ear
of the passionate Balkan son
To set his pen ablaze and spin his tales,
Paint his imagery,
Behind smoky haze and quenched by bitter elixirs
And sweet wines of the plains of Europa

September 28, 2005 10:33 (on receiving new poetry from a dear friend)


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Bumble Bee

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In His Time

I am waiting on the Lord
For his answer to prayer
In His Time;
Not my own

Human passions
And concerns
Of providing for a family
Of paying the bills
Supplanted by an act of faith
A prayer for guidance
and providence
Guiding my feet and my path
again and for the first time

Wanting to be sure of my belief
The “believing is seeing”,
not the pragmatic,
“Seeing is believing”

Testing my mettle
For an answer
In His Time

September 27, 2005 14:14


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400 POEMS

With the last post, I have now put 400 of my poems on this site.


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Before the Baling

After the cutting
before the baling
a working field
waits for the late harvest

Narrow rows of green,
turning to gray,
course over the land
After the passing of the scythe,
the reaper's work

Hungry cows in the dairy barnyard
still munch and mull the September grasses
Soon they will know the bite of winter
when their feed
is this autumnal fuel

September 23, 2005 12:28


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In Praise of Taciturn Yankees

Quiet, stoic granite men
Long in the land and happy for the stillness,
The solitude of the ancient hayfield,
the thick wood, the craggy shore, the stormy sea

Flinty like the earth
dependable as the seasons
Taciturn Yankees one and all
Of older stuff and remembering the creed
of holding the tongue, stiff upper lip
and shoulder to the task at hand
Idle hands they have not
And we are richer for it.


September 20, 2005 12:41 – While I was driving to work this morning on Rte 101 in NH, one of the NHPR reporters was talking about the new Encyclopedia of New England (http://www.unh.edu/news/news_releases/2005/september/em_050919encyclopedia.htm). They were commenting how New England isn’t just made up of maple syrup, town meetings, and taciturn Yankees.

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Pearls of Rain

Captured on a web in a yew bush in front of Wesley United Methodist Church, Concord, NH; September 17, 2005 - 2:00pm

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Walking with Paul

I wanted to call this “walking with the prophet”
Because I feel he was more like the exhorter Elijah
Guiding his path, putting the words in his mouth,
Not the reformed apostle of Christ

Week on week he marched us through
Each lesson crystallized in the living text
Of the epistle to the Romans
Leading to a new trail through Philippians
Starting next week

I could see the power, the joy
Welling up through the text, the common stories
The current times imbued with the ancient ones
Being brought with the unseen congregation in Rome
To a fuller understanding of his message
Then and now
For each of us


September 16, 2005 9:46

She's an Artist

Miss Erica is right
looking at the handiwork
of the spinster on the loom
rich clear lines of silk
spun for errant prey
and sheer pleasure
caught in the houselights
for a moment or two
but busy all night long
catching her dinner

September 13, 2005 19:45 (written while the photo uploaded... thank you dialup...)
(photo by Ray Foss)

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A New School

(a song for Erica)

I’m in a new school
I’m the new face
With my great style, I’m here
To brighten up the place

I have new friends to meet
to share a giggle and greet
My school is just down the block
With my determination, I can’t be beat

I’m a year older and wiser it’s true
Fourth grade and all of that
With it getting colder
I’ll soon be wearing a hat

New outfits and hair
To start the year
A knapsack too
To stow my gear

Down Cedar onto Beech
My school is in easy reach
I study hard, it’s not a quirk
Oh great, more homework…

September 13, 2005 16:44

The danger of enjoying closeup photography

Is that you can actually take such a shot (photo by Ray Foss)


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Google vision

(photos by Ray Foss)

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Momma's First Day too - 9/10/05

We are all really proud of you honey!

We love you and support you as you start college

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Shanequa, Erica & Shyanne - Going to School - 9/9/05

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Shy Shy’s First Day

Hair just so in her pretty pig tails
Don’t you know
“How do I look, daddy?”
Drips from her lips

New dress so sharp
Brand new stiff before the first washing
Big shy sly grin on her face
Prancing in the office
Impatient for the beginning

Backpack with snack and juice
Ready to start her day
Fruit loops in her tummy
Smile for the camera,
Memorialized

We march down the street
She with her mommy
Big sissy on her own
Me with her little sister
Kindergarten awaits
On her first day.
Hurry up light.


September 9, 2005 11:12


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A Mirage of Frozen Dew

Harkenings of memories and moments to come…
Summer leads to fall
Fog over the fields and marshes, the wet places, again
Dew so thick on the highway shoulder

Like wet frozen cumulous clouds,
or a cotton bowl roughly carded to cull the seeds,
the dew was caught in the course field grass
at the edge of the black,
lit white in the morning light,
a mirage of frozen dew
all too soon a reality


September 8, 2005 12:09 (title drafted 9/8/05 12:25am)


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Spider - St. Lucia - in the bush and on a hand

(photos by Ray Foss)

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She is...

She is the other half
of who I am,
the part of me that truly believes
in me unconditionally,
the place in my heart that dreams
and soars above the day to day
ready for whatever the future holds
in God's plan
for us.
She is
my wife!

September 6, 2005 22:21


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Ruth in the Rain in St. Lucia

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Rolling Stone

Like an army general on parade
reviewing the troops in the convoy
tooling down the highway into battle
I drove by the armada of trucks, working soldiers
Marching down the black asphalt
to toil in the fields of corporate battle,
almost watching for the salute,
as their driver’s heads turned left

Rolling stone, a flatbed trailer towed by a dump truck
a frozen army of roaming cornerstones
lined up in neat ordered rows
like soldiers in the D-Day landing craft
or those unearthed Chinese terracotta army men
with stories to tell of their exploits
if we could only hear the whispers of stone

That truck was in pursuit of an 18-wheeler hauling square pipe
and an asphalt tanker truck, carrying the new road with him, and
countless lesser support vehicles,
with their wares emblazoned on the sides,
banners held high of their regiments and their causes,
like the charges in Civil War reenactments.
A division of brothers in arms
making fast for their destination
each morning on the highway heading east


September 5, 2005 21:52 (about my ride to work on the morning on Auust 23, 2005, on Rte 101 Eastbound in NH, around exit 4)


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Miss Erica

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Shyanne

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Shanequa

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Planned Serendipity

We seem to be living
a life of planned serendipity,
scripted moments, rather than pure chance
the consequences of more than mere free will

We turned our choices over
in repeated moments of prayer and reflection
To let Your will be done through us

How blessed we feel when we see the fruits
The not so random experiences unfolding
before our marveling eyes.

Lessons in scripture, in the words of our pastors,
in the circumstances around us;
feeling our lives are part of your plan.

9/4/05 23:32

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Coconut Bay

Now That would be a tough jigsaw puzzle...

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Their Beautiful Mother

On the balcony of our room at Coconut Bay Resort & Spa, Vieux Fort, St. Lucia

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Butterfly Princess, Cheerleader, Victorian Princess - October 2004

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Shyanne - Bubble Girl - December 2004

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Out of the Clear Blue Sky

The sky was so clear and blue today
it took my attention away
from the walk to the bank
where I needed to go

Water in the air
makes me stop and stare
at the blueness there is
in the sky, the edge of the dome




















The arc of the sphere
we hold so dear
The water planet he saved
from the flood.

September 2, 2005 22:54

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Globe

I saw this glass globe on the counter at the New Hamsphire Federal Credit Union in Durham, NH this lunch hour. The teller said it was from a shop in Washington, DC. It is nice having a digital camera.

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Chairs, Dartmouth College Graduation, May 1994

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Gay Head Cliffs, Martha's Vineyard, July 1995

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Picture for my profile

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The tragedy of being in the room when Shyanne decides to play Dress Up...

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Toxic Gumbo

I see the pain on their face
The water all over the place
It is terrible to see
I ache inside of me

Far north from their plight
I hope they all can take flight
To escape the pain they feel
And know our prayers for them are real

We know You can touch their lives
To make sense of their devastation and loss
So watch over them all we pray
And hold them close to You each day

Dear Lord, hear this plea
That they can be free
Of the loss they know so well
In that toxic gumbo of hell

September 1, 2005 8:27

Toxic Gumbo

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/09/toxic-gumbo.html

Hurricane Katrina

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremeevents/specialreports/Hurricane-Katrina.pdf

http://www.hurricanekatrina.com/

http://www.nola.com/katrina/

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/

and flooding in New Orleans’

9^th ward

and the rest of the Gulf region

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Fuzzy Swears

Some have heard of “fuzzy logic”,
that “powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) …”
(no, not just what Shanequa or Erica uses on me,
though they do make me go huh)?)),
and I just saw a set of fuzzy dice driving down 101 Friday night
on the rear view mirror
in a vintage canary yellow 1940’s Chevy Coupe with NH plates
all buffed and polished for the tourists

But what about the everyday villains, the subtle stalkers,
The fuzzy swear, curse, cuss
Foul language in spun candy
Words to spit with less spin, less bite
A bit of fancy

“Fudge Ripple Ice Cream”, “Oh Milk Bones!”
“Prune Whip” (ooooh that is a good juicy one)
Where harsher terms of art
May struggle, balk, jostle
to roll off the tongue
Clipped by place, norms, conscience
And others squirt out
to smirk, chuckle, cringe, and fluster…
Fuzzy, cuddly words
Where others would play


August 30, 2005 11:12


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Menacing Insects

A big fat black dirigible of a fly
careening around the office
buzzed me, like a test pilot and the tower.
I could feel its clumsy wake
Before it landed on the wall taunting me to strike back

Carol said, “They’re huge this time of year,
you could almost put a saddle on them,”

The banter reminded me of the June Bug
that flew into the tip of my nose
last week on the walk to my car
Leading me to laugh at the silliest workers’ comp claim in history
When I got whiplash from the impact.

Oh what the paperwork would have been

August 29, 2005 12:25


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Summer 2000 - pictures from the PowerPoint presentation - Poetry Where You Live - part 3

Rippled sunset, Shimmer 1, Shimmer 2, Summer Sun Fisher, Sunday Afternoon, Sunset Over Cove, Swains at Night, Wet Birch Leaf, Wild Blueberry

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 18,720+ of my poems at http://www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.