Avoiding Purple (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I smiled a the funny turn of phrase, the appropriate admonition, "we need to avoid purple", the mixing of the ...
Poems about avoid (46 Poems)
The Message in the Glass (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She sat beside me in the chapel this morning as her momma began to preach we were in the back, ...
An Act of Faith (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I stood before the congregation knowing the financial crunch the hard work, done by so many for so many years, ...
A Dangerous Question (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In my trade, you never are to ask these kinds of questions, questions where you don't know the answer, those ...
A Cold Breeze (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Okay, it felt a lot like a lot more than a cold breeze a frigid arctic blast, more like it, ...
A Gray Day (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Driving in town, between the drops of rain watch the people scurry, trudge, dash, between the buildings, hunker down at ...
Being as Little Children (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wonder, amazement, at the littlest thing marvels in all of creation, faith, attachment in the sound of familiar voices, Voices ...
Silence (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Silence is golden or so the saying goes we see the sparing of hurt in silence Two men, men of ...
Copernican Dilemma (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Heresy Changing the center Of theology. My world Revolving A different orb. Rejecting A false choice Accepted on faith. Wanting ...
The Muleteer (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind; The present tale Boccace relates you'll find; Agiluf was the noble monarch's name; ...
The Little Bell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HOW weak is man! how changeable his mind! His promises are naught, too oft we find; I vowed (I hope ...
The Amorous Courtesan (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO master sage, nor orator I know, Who can success, like gentle Cupid show; His ways and arguments are pleasing ...
Belphegor Addressed To Miss De Chammelay (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
Maple (Robert Frost Poem)
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
Provide, Provide (Robert Frost Poem)
The witch that came (the withered hag) To wash the steps with pail and rag, Was once the beauty Abishag, ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
The Hollow Men (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Mistah Kurtz -- he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the ...
To Fr. Armando (Regina Derieva Poem)
Everyone, after all, was killed: he who was crucified, he who died without skin, he who died without a head, ...
When I count the seeds (Emily Dickinson Poem)
When I count the seeds That are sown beneath, To bloom so, bye and bye -- When I con the ...
One dignity delays for all (Emily Dickinson Poem)
One dignity delays for all -- One mitred Afternoon -- None can avoid this purple -- None evade this Crown! ...
Guest am I to have (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Guest am I to have Light my northern room Why to cordiality so averse to come Other friends adjourn Other ...
Worthy Places (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
There were some worthy places where we could escape, avoid the heavy weight of living in a densely peopled space; ...
Fountain of your rise (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Michelle, the thought of you confused or under siege bereaves us; you, the cheerful heart who waged a silent war ...
Futurelessness (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Why can't I keep out of harm's way? Am I so preoccupied, simultaneously looking ahead, concurrently looking behind; concerned to ...
Leaf Sermon (Craig Erick Chaffin Poem)
I have been spiritually poisoned by the unclean, in ignorance blessed their springs. In consequence I withered and drifted down ...
Finalities (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
Amid fear and suspicions, with agitated mind and frightened eyes, we melt and plan how to act to avoid the ...
At a Poetry Party I Am Given the Rhyme Chih (Li Ching Chao Poem)
Although I've studied poetry for thirty years I try to keep my mouth shut and avoid reputation. Now who is ...
The Sea (Lewis Carroll Poem)
There are certain things -a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three - That I hate, but ...