Poems about minor (39 Poems)
A Hobbesian Choice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
To put your child in harm’s way to subject them to the whim of bureaucracy to let them care for your loved one when they are wrong just to check off a box a hurdle to access to justice. That … Continue reading
A Litmus Test (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Subjecting yourself, your child to an inadequate plan, a failure of law, of implementation, or fiat at its worst That we must submit, turn loved ones over to the well-intended; but wrong to let them suffer a failed plan even … Continue reading
It’s a Talisman (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
Statutory interpretation sparing over the meaning, the import of precision, of a bit of administrative law boiled down to the pith the singular exchange, the Chief and the Advocate “It’s a talisman” then, the magic of being in the system … Continue reading
He is the one who said it (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A minor epiphany at the dinner table tonight, reading the devotional the familiar story, the wondrous words, of God’s love “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son” Words that nourish, that uplift that remind … Continue reading
Brothers (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Brothers killing brothers, fighting brothers, hating each other for minor things, petty differences selfish desires, cheap greed, anger, position, power oh to see the way through to love, to forgiveness to compassion as a father can did in the story … Continue reading
A Lobster Pot (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A lobster pot tossed by the sea onto the rocks wedged in the jetty between the boulders of the breakwater pristine, but barnacled, seaweeded, lost, adrift crashed where we found it in the jagged wet rocks, on the Maine coast … Continue reading
A Fallen Orb (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A Planet no more a dwarf, a minor player on the celestial stage the lord of the underworld relegated, lost out to more precision prejudice of the current age seen as less grand than the special eight excised so others … Continue reading
The Husband-Confessor (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Francis (named the first) o’er Frenchmen reign’d, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed in fight, With ev’ry honour he was made a knight; The monarch placed the spur upon his heel, That all … Continue reading
The Marionettes Of Distant Masters (Russell Edson Poem)
A pianist dreams that he’s hired by a wrecking company to ruin a piano with his fingers . . . On the day of the piano wrecking concert, as he’s dressing, he notices a butterfly annoying a flower in his … Continue reading
Broadway (Mark Doty Poem)
Under Grand Central’s tattered vault –maybe half a dozen electric stars still lit– one saxophone blew, and a sheer black scrim billowed over some minor constellation under repair. Then, on Broadway, red wings in a storefront tableau, lustrous, the live … Continue reading