Growing Edges (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our mission, our trip, our sharing all part of the growing edges of the missionaries, gaining strength, new skills, stretching ...
Our mission, our trip, our sharing all part of the growing edges of the missionaries, gaining strength, new skills, stretching ...
A mother's prayer for her child, for her children for healing, for grace for the pain she carries to be ...
Pulling out of the lot falling into the fog enveloped by its stillness its wet blanket lost to the noise ...
A gray patina, a wash over the day the colors of my vision cold, waiting for December rain rushes, ancient ...
The white of the dusting of snow lingers in the shadows, on the fallen leaves, the cooler spots in the ...
A quilted sky hung over the moon hiding the full face of it, lit by its glow obscured and translucent ...
It always seems, wherever I turn we are the bad guys, the ones in the way the ones asking Him ...
Crisp hard brown sturdy oak leaves glistened in the small crisp pools after this morning's rain, late fall puddles harvest ...
Moments, months, years Shards of my life Frozen in amber Untidy segments Frayed edges, dead ends Lost years A blank ...
People, random strangers Cool stores Hot blacktop Eyes turn Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing ...
People, random strangers Crackle with energy, anticipation Furtive glances to the horizon, Instinctively knowing Darkening sky Deep grays Strong edges ...
New patrolman and law student Brothers Between classes Debating, over lunch Gray edges of law Exigent circumstances Criminal procedure Search ...
Warming blue Across the arc of the dome He left for us after the Flood Daubs of color Dabbed on ...
A mat of green, burgundy, and brown Covered the skin of the once open water Of the marsh, cut off ...
Weathered and worn But oh so proudly The old barn preened in the summer Mid-day sun He had seen her ...
A living Ansel Adams tableau white birches stretching heavenward over a winter scene of white on white A monochromatic world ...
THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of ...
Nothing's certain. Crossing, on this longest day, the low-tide-uncovered isthmus, scrambling up the scree-slope of what at high tide will ...
me and you be sisters. we be the same. me and you coming from the same place. me and you ...
They are both old Boireann and her she wants to remain in the car hunched regarding the other through the ...
I watched the winter light die from the bridge, the sky a sinking empire's battleship, ice floes' jagged edges clink ...
I have taken refuge in travelogues, bare silk-screen images of evening cityscapes giving in to a garish-clad sky; a tourist ...
Another time. It was still night. Water slid Silently on the black ground, And I knew that my only task ...
High dormers are rising So sharp and surprising, And ponticum edges The driveways of gravel; Stone houses from ledges Look ...
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the red electric train, With a thousand Ta's and Pardon's Daintily alights Elaine; Hurries down ...
When beechen buds begin to swell, And woods the blue-bird's warble know, The yellow violet's modest bell Peeps from last-year's ...
This harbour was made by art and force. And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire. And holds the sea behind ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
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