Strand (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A glint of gossamer Single strand, Bowed in the wind Tethered to branch and bench Undulating, snapping Refracting when still ...
A glint of gossamer Single strand, Bowed in the wind Tethered to branch and bench Undulating, snapping Refracting when still ...
A walk in the woods Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway Cold of winter Catch ...
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...
Like a thick cluster of ripe Concord grapes The blueberries hung on the bush Eager for my grasp, their liberation ...
When we let the moments of stillness bleed into us, they are there forever, to recall, even if ephemerally. It ...
Showers of New Snow Light powder of confectionary sugar Filtered down through the night air On forest and field Oak ...
Fed by the slack eddies by the frozen shore grew a chain row on row, layer by layer of hand ...
Out back, behind the yard in the brush and scrub at the edge a world unfolds for those willing to ...
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...
A walk in the woods Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway Cold of winter Catch ...
A governor it was proclaimed this time, When all who would come seeking in New Hampshire Ancestral memories might come ...
I've known ere now an interfering branch Of alder catch my lifted ax behind me. But that was in the ...
I came an errand one cloud-blowing evening To a slab-built, black-paper-covered house Of one room and one window and one ...
Repeatedly, that sturdy stump in me bears up like stone, beneath some ritual I see: the blinding axe swings up, ...
TWELVE o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of ...
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Silver dust lifted from the earth, higher than my arms reach, you have mounted. O silver, higher than my arms ...
I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the ...
From citron-bower be her bed, cut from branch of tree a-flower, fashioned for her maidenhead. From Lydian apples, sweet of ...
The Veins of other Flowers The Scarlet Flowers are Till Nature leisure has for Terms As "Branch," and "Jugular." We ...
IN the tavern of my heart Many a one has sat before, Drunk red wine and sung a stave, And, ...
I The rutted roads are all like iron; skies Are keen and brilliant; only the oak-leaves cling In the bare ...
Stop, stop and listen for the bough top Is whistling and the sun is brighter Than God's own shadow in ...
To the tune of "Telling My Most Intimate Feelings" When night comes, I am so flushed with wine, I undo ...
The new-born child of gospel grace, Like some fair tree when summer's nigh, Beneath Emmanuel's shining face Lifts up his ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift ...
The Frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. The owlet's cry Came loud, -and hark, again! loud as ...
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