The force of poetry on my life Force Majeure* (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
You loosed the whirlwinds That day in April Without knowing it, Setting a settled soul Off his pilings Forced to ...
You loosed the whirlwinds That day in April Without knowing it, Setting a settled soul Off his pilings Forced to ...
You loosed the whirlwinds That day in June Setting two settled souls Off their pilings Forced to face our realities ...
Down the path Away from the road, Bustle of the highway In the inner quiet Cold of winter Emptiness, sadness, ...
The mountain brook sung lonesomelike, and loitered on its way Ez if it waited for a child to jine it ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
SICK, Alice grown, and fearing dire event, Some friend advised a servant should be sent Her confessor to bring and ...
Through ev'ry Age some Tyrant Passion reigns: Now Love prevails, and now Ambition gains Reason's lost Throne, and sov'reign Rule ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
The big one went to sleep as to die and dreamed he became a tiny one. So tiny as to ...
A man is bringing a cup of coffee to his face, tilting it to his mouth. It's historical, he thinks. ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Who were "the Father and the Son" We pondered when a child, And what had they to do with us ...
The event was directly behind Him Yet He did not guess Fitted itself to Himself like a Robe Relished His ...
I know of people in the Grave Who would be very glad To know the news I know tonight If ...
A single Clover Plank Was all that saved a Bee A Bee I personally knew From sinking in the sky ...
'Twas Crisis -- All the length had passed -- That dull -- benumbing time There is in Fever or Event ...
My life closed twice before its close -- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to ...
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
The other day I listened to a man on the radio who made uncommon common sense, 'specially since it was ...
It is a pristine page, clean on the blue screen where I compose, I don't expect it to stay that ...
The dung was recent, not an event unusual in itself but difficult to explain of cows grazing the other side ...
I am having a haircut today, it is not a complex event requiring excellent foresight, careful planning or indecent logistical ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
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