Two Plates (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Her hands extended, strain of the weight at the end of each offering plates full of our meager gifts hands ...
Her hands extended, strain of the weight at the end of each offering plates full of our meager gifts hands ...
Anointing his head, his feet, oil for royalty for burial So much meaning in the layers, the differences the telling ...
How much could the split oil have bought how many lives would it have touched how wasteful it must have ...
Sugar cookies, candy canes, Christmas trees, snow men, stars, ginger bread men, spirals, bells, all cartoon confections festooned my newest ...
Forgiveness, pardon were woven in words, we could understand, appreciate, bring home to our own hearts reach empathy, equate, learn ...
Another year is about to begin of a story that doesn't grow old of the way we met, the lives ...
A glitch in the system a check at the store denied She offered me all, all she had all she ...
Savior Loving, forgiving Sacrificing His life Wonderful gift of grace Messiah September 29, 2006 Cinquain on Mark 9:30-37 (Raymond A. ...
They are downstairs, away from my office romping and shouting, in the living room I hear their squeals, their play, ...
Oh if I could sing sing like you with that strong bright voice share my joy in the singing reach ...
Drink in the cool, smooth, the sweet scent of Spring Fleeting aroma of purple of plum, or white, of dusty ...
What a wonderful gift undeserved and oh so great He has given each of us so blessed are we by ...
Last night the Stork came stalking, And, Stork, beneath your wing Lay, lapped in dreamless slumber, The tiniest little thing! ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the Blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
I Lover of beauty, walking on the height Of pure philosophy and tranquil song; Born to behold the visions that ...
It pleased the Lord of Angels (praise His name!) To hear, one day, report from those who came With pitying ...
The World -- stands -- solemner -- to me -- Since I was wed -- to Him -- A modesty ...
Society for me my misery Since Gift of Thee -- (Emily Dickinson)
By homely gift and hindered Words The human heart is told Of Nothing -- "Nothing" is the force That renovates ...
What is left now that we've used the last excuse, what is left to justify excess. The rhetoric at best ...
Our lives were founded on this rock, this Jessie of Gibraltar Whose unfailing love endured beyond her ample nursing, And ...
And you will claim we need more births to keep our population mix in check while nature's truths suggest there ...
past parentage or gender beyond sung vocables the slipped-between the so infinitesimal fault line a limitless interiority beyond the woven ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
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