Comforting Parallels (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She spoke joyfully face aglow standing in the kitchen of our church, her hands busy, preparing a meal, for a ...
Poems about conversation (45 Poems)
Team Sport (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Christianity is a team sport, so the pastor said that morning from the pulpit. Sometimes it can feel lonely, different ...
Faith as a Dialogue with God (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In their story, we see a truth of the nature of faith not only in the seeing the seeing by ...
minds wander (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
in the early morning fog the bible verses ooze into my subconscious bleed their message into my soul bypassing my ...
A King (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A king, not of this world being baited, tested, by the emissary, the local ruler, representative of the Emperor Would ...
Snow Flurries (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There were snow flurries in the air today early for my liking, snow flurries coming in small singular spirals, falling ...
First Date . First Kiss (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Two years ago, anticipating the first meeting of our lips, after our easy conversation, small talk, after sitting by each ...
Arguing the Essential Nature (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Now this was a conversation, as I learned later, that was not in the right place a high school classroom, ...
Drivebys (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Driveby friendships in the inbetween times the gaps, spaces between classes, lunch, studying caught in line, in the hall, bookstore, ...
Balance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Law - Poetry Accounting - Photography Balance Get through the words Elements of 1st degree murder Beauty of a fall ...
Yellow Bands (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Yellow bands Across the page Filling the words with power Focus on fragments Key facts, rules, history, reasoning Notes in ...
Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Quiet in the law school Late at night, after papers, exams Between time Late March, Early April Still halls Empty ...
True Believer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It is you who believes in me who wants the best for me who gives me the strength For you ...
An Angel, a Deacon, and a Eunuch (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What was it that the daily reflection asked? Oh yeah, it was, "If you were set down beside the carriage ...
When the Evening Darkens (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When the evening darkens and the day cools and the stars flicker to light I sat on the blanket with ...
Mary smith (Eugene Field Poem)
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith, There used to live a pretty girl whose name ...
The Spectacles (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
The Magic Cup (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
The Countryman Who Sought His Calf (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost, And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed; The tallest tree that in ...
The Convent Gardener Of Lamporechio (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
WHEN Cupid with his dart, would hearts assail, The rampart most secure is not the VEIL; A husband better will ...
The Case Of Conscience (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
St. Julian’s Prayer (Jean de La Fontaine Poems)
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
King Candaules And The Doctor Of Laws (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
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, ...
Portrait of a Lady (T. S. Eliot Poem)
Thou hast committed- Fornication: but that was in another country, And besides, the wench is dead. The Jew of Malta. ...
You’ll know it — as you know ’tis Noon (Emily Dickinson Poems)
You'll know it -- as you know 'tis Noon -- By Glory -- As you do the Sun -- By ...
Nature — the Gentlest Mother is, (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Nature -- the Gentlest Mother is, Impatient of no Child -- The feeblest -- or the waywardest -- Her Admonition ...
The only Ghost I ever saw (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The only Ghost I ever saw Was dressed in Mechlin -- so -- He wore no sandal on his foot ...