Doe Eyes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Out of the fog of dusk she stood motionless watching in stillness the rush of human life hurtling past her ...
Poems about stillness (50 Poems)
Coming Thunder (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
First storm of the year thickening sky, heavy air darkening below the blue weight on the limbs the leaves turned ...
We Walked in the Garden (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A long time from the creation but awhile ago, we, the two of us walked for a moment in the ...
Into the Fog (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pulling out of the lot falling into the fog enveloped by its stillness its wet blanket lost to the noise ...
Breaking Camp (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
At 1:00 in the morning on a moonlit, starlit night in northern Maine, in the Allagash Wilderness silent strangers, worked ...
Alabaster Air (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I can remember a night a hushed quiet night when I sat and melted in the alabaster air bleed from ...
Dew in the Morning – (Resurrection) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Dew in the morning Burst my slumber, stupor, coma Caught me from numbness, Unseeing eyes Dulled senses Forced sight, perception ...
Moonlight (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Board meeting over Stars and clouds call. Alone on the lake, Time to unwind. 11 o'clock under A moonlit sky. ...
Dreams (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Slide, fall into the realm the inky stillness after restless days Wake, fitfully Scraps of memory or Technicolor show Prescience ...
Ten Feet (not Twenty) Overhead — (first draft) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Up ahead To my right Around the point before me A burst of squawks and the Beating of heavy wings ...
Ten Feet (not Twenty) Overhead – (second draft) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Up ahead To my right Around the point before me A burst of squawks and the Beating of heavy wings ...
Ten Feet Overhead – (final version) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Up ahead To my right Around the point Burst of squawks and Beating of heavy wings Filled the air The ...
Salmon Skin (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A pause on the bridge, a break in my day, as night came A stop to drink in the murmur, ...
Berries (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like a thick cluster of ripe Concord grapes The blueberries hung on the bush Eager for my grasp, their liberation ...
In Praise of Taciturn Yankees (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Quiet, stoic granite men Long in the land and happy for the stillness, The solitude of the ancient hayfield, the ...
A Cathedral of Pine (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
On a floor of needles and leaves I sat in a cathedral of pine Five trees encircled my prayer Limbs ...
Memories in the Stillness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When we let the moments of stillness bleed into us, they are there forever, to recall, even if ephemerally. It ...
A Frozen Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer hidden and silent Stones submerged by winter's blanket Covered and cold beneath the grip of frost If they ...
A Ripeness of Winter (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Frozen in her icy grasp captured in the frigid stillness coated by layer on layer a blanket of white, of ...
Capturing the Sound of Rain (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Listening to the timpani the rhythm of the rain the rap, the tap, the ratta-tat-tat, the staccato of the drumming ...
In The Firelight (Eugene Field Poem)
The fire upon the hearth is low, And there is stillness everywhere, While like winged spirits, here and there, The ...
Four Quartets 2: East Coker (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
Nothing Stays (Mark van Doren Poem)
Nothing stays not even change, That can grow tired of it's own name; The very thought too much for it. ...
Ebony Life (Robert Desnos Poem)
A frightening stillness will mark that day And the shadow of streetlights and fire-alarms will exhaust the light All things, ...
Love’s Nearness (Henry Van Dyke Poems)
I think of thee, when golden sunbeams shimmer Across the sea; And when the waves reflect the moon's pale glimmer, ...
A Legend of Service (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
Celestial Music (John Donne Poem)
I have a friend who still believes in heaven. Not a stupid person, yet with all she knows, she literally ...
These Fevered Days — to take them to the Forest (Emily Dickinson Poem)
These Fevered Days -- to take them to the Forest Where Waters cool around the mosses crawl -- And shade ...