Letting Go of Hate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A sense of vindication of closure for the loss not joy in the killing in the taking of a life ...
A sense of vindication of closure for the loss not joy in the killing in the taking of a life ...
The requited anger the focus of our rage bin Laden gone, buried in the water in a watery grave A ...
Victory over evil in the cries of war the terrorist brought down but may we not gloat Not like the ...
Not nearly the whole but the head of the snake cut off, dead in a watery grave No real closure ...
The words of remembrance crackling on the radio as person after person reliving those memories Mourning again not feeling real ...
Metastasized, transformed for terror not a single body like the head of a snake The head cut off but the ...
The moment of this time to forgive bin Laden the one we had so hated gunned down, now dead The ...
What will be the consequence what will be remembered of this day in history the head of the snake the ...
A concerted act of will the last candle burning needing to be extinguished yet laden with meaning rich, in remembrance ...
The apples fallen in the uncut grass under the fragrant canopy the heavy laden branches The apples fallen warm in ...
The words he spoke dripping the room, the elements, the words all of this laden with meaning as we sat ...
Moving from the shoreline the crowd pressing going out onto the waters to cast his net for men Preaching the ...
The thick outer garment the shroud of our humanity tied to the things of this earth walking, burdened, heavy laden ...
Walking with Christ unaware of the teacher's name sorrowful, heavy laden the weight of the death of the Master the ...
His sweat, his anguish his prayers in Gethsemane the ground, as if watered with blood like the ground crying out ...
Air a bit cooler, a bit clearer brighter blue in the sky more defined clouds, white shadows longer Full oak ...
They ran/walked purposely, eagerly from the chancel into the sanctuary, out between the pews, by the rows of smiling adults, ...
To Despair I ever love where never hope appears, Yet hope draws on my never-hoping care, And my life's hope ...
I come from there and I have memories Born as mortals are, I have a mother And a house with ...
The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury 'twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me In ...
The Bird did prance -- the Bee did play -- The Sun ran miles away So blind with joy he ...
Enduring an inguinal hernia repair can drive you to despair, it is a monumental nonsense; in my defence I hadn't ...
Today we woke up to a revolution of snow, its white flag waving over everything, the landscape vanished, not a ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
DWELLER in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation! mark, Who in widow-weeds appears, Laden with unhonour'd years, Noosing with care ...
FRIEND of the Poet, tried and leal, Wha, wanting thee, might beg or steal; Alake, alake, the meikle deil Wi' ...
STILL anxious to secure your partial favour, And not less anxious, sure, this night, than ever, A Prologue, Epilogue, or ...
THE WIND blew hollow frae the hills, By fits the sun's departing beam Look'd on the fading yellow woods, That ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain'd With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady ...
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