Reaching Out (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A birch, fallen, extending reaching out, over the still-running water the bank starting to freeze, the water moving down below ...
A birch, fallen, extending reaching out, over the still-running water the bank starting to freeze, the water moving down below ...
Silence steps, into the chapel the open-air sanctuary walking in silence a mere rubbing underfoot less than a crunch pine ...
sitting alone, in the back of the sanctuary pines the rafters, blue sky the ceiling more beautiful than the Sistine ...
I sat apart, in the back of the sanctuary no roof our walls were around me nature all around Listening ...
A hillside, white birch, maples, poplar red patina, wash overlaid over the white, the gray buds erupting, a hillside ablaze ...
New sunlight first rays in the morning cutting over the tree line down through the woods into the yard Catching ...
Snow continues to fall young faces pressed against the windows climb the back of the couch dream of snowmen, castles, ...
Wet dull brown oak leaves red maple, yellow birch, fell in showers, amidst the big secondary rain drops under the ...
It is 7 am And the world awakes. There's dew in the morning. Every tip of the serrated Wild strawberry ...
Dew in the morning Burst my slumber, stupor, coma Caught me from numbness, Unseeing eyes Dulled senses Forced sight, perception ...
As I reached down To unlock my canoe From the tree, I held onto a Black birch sapling's branch. There, ...
A space in the dark untrammeled woods Off the path Under the watch of maples and birch A bed of ...
Campsite set Late afternoon Late June Grab a friend Get the canoe Head up the brook The tributary Portage through ...
Back out into the wet woods Walking and hiking But always looking, watching, Searching for that one moment when the ...
Out back, behind the yard in the brush and scrub at the edge a world unfolds for those willing to ...
I WALKED down alone Sunday after church To the place where John has been cutting trees To see for myself ...
Always the same, when on a fated night At last the gathered snow lets down as white As may be ...
What tree may not the fig be gathered from? The grape may not be gathered from the birch? It's all ...
He saw her from the bottom of the stairs Before she saw him. She was starting down, Looking back over ...
When I see birches bend to left and right Across the lines of straighter darker trees, I like to think ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream ...
Where is the grave of Sir Arthur O'Kellyn? Where may the grave of that good man be?-- By the side ...
A place of dryad and hamadryad, there are eyes here by the million. Many divert to watch me. Threatened, they ...
I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a center, the shape things will take to come ...
I have enough treasures from the past to last me longer than I need, or want. You know as well ...
THOU ling'ring star, with lessening ray, That lov'st to greet the early morn, Again thou usher'st in the day My ...
Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm: Besides I can ...
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