An Ache for a People (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Watching the violence, helpless an ache for a whole people convulsing in revolution living in the maelstrom Defiant and courageous ...
Watching the violence, helpless an ache for a whole people convulsing in revolution living in the maelstrom Defiant and courageous ...
Like whales beached on the sand covered in the dunes each car, like an archaeological dig ancient Egypt a treasure ...
Not yet truly finished but completing their journey from slavery in Egypt a new people, living in the promised land ...
Unlike all that had come before generation after generation the telling of the exodus the saving of the Lord the ...
All of their history following the ancient ritual the words of the deliverance of God and Egypt of their escape ...
A last meal with them the master and the disciples gathered around the Passover table sharing in the Seder Words ...
Leaving Bethlehem beside the manger under his natal star going to Egypt, to Nazareth walking the dusty roads of Galilee ...
The blood of the lamb spirit, life, eternal life spread on the lintels of our hearts marking us, a chosen ...
Sometimes, as a father a step-father, caring for children of another, of others I think about May, about Joseph the ...
We are never really told the story of his unknown youth most of his life a mystery Called to the ...
That troubled land, torn and split knowing war, strife, too long Escape through there, to a land once of oppression, ...
Avoiding the massacre the killing of the innocents the one life spared; flight to Egypt The life of the one, ...
We talk of the slaughter Herod's massacre of the innocents The same, in an earlier time, the rage of the ...
After the Magi, the gifts gold, frankincense, myrrh, a sudden dream, fear, panic, flea, fly, go to the land of ...
After the stable birth the visit of the Magi the king was a refugee a stealthy run for foreign land ...
Deliverers of the people each both under a death threat a dream and a basket into the land of Egypt ...
We, like the shepherds, the wise men, the father and mother, go to the stable each year, at this time, ...
We have been given an incredible gift all of us, Jew and gentile, saint and sinner, a gift of freedom, ...
Blood shed in fulfillment, willingly spilled for us spread blood of the lamb Blood on the lintels, the threshold, the ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares, The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: In vain the Alter ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Miss J.Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We ...
'Draw three cards, and I will tell your future . . . Draw three cards, and lay them down, Rest ...
I. (Bread and Music) Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was ...
In Nineveh And beyond Nineveh In the dusk They were afraid. In Thebes of Egypt In the dust They chanted ...
'Not by the justice that my father spurn'd, Not for the thousands whom my father slew, Altars unfed and temples ...
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