Snow Fort (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It all starts with the quality, the density, the size of the snow bank. True now, true forty years ago; ...
It all starts with the quality, the density, the size of the snow bank. True now, true forty years ago; ...
He was hungry, so very hungry no food, no drink, nothing for forty days, forty long hot nights in the ...
I quietly, slowly pulled the door together going back into the warmer house on this morning in September before Fall ...
Black, black buckles like grates on the front of a pot-bellied stove Clumpy black buckle boots worn over shoes by ...
What a project to move a ten by ten heavy, dead weight heavy wooden shed from the middle of the ...
I remember him all so vividly like it was so recent far fewer than the close to forty years ago ...
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
Forsythia blooms plucked from the bush a sudden jolt back to when I was six walking to kindergarten petals curl ...
O hapless day! O wretched day! I hoped you'd pass me by-- Alas, the years have sneaked away And all ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind, Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind; ...
The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool-- Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool; ...
I cannot eat my porridge, I weary of my play; No longer can I sleep at night, No longer romp ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each with a bow and arrows at his ...
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches are like green bronze; its ...
"Willis, I didn't want you here to-day: The lawyer's coming for the company. I'm going to sell my soul, or, ...
I stayed the night for shelter at a farm Behind the mountains, with a mother and son, Two old-believers. They ...
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
When Sam Small retired from the Army He'd a pension of ninepence a day, And seven pounds fourteen and twopence ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Glee -- The great storm is over -- Four -- have recovered the Land -- Forty -- gone down together ...
He cut his hand and it bled, the flesh inside was red and the hurt discounted the flood of red ...
When I was just a little boy, Before I went to school, I had a fleet of forty sail I ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
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