Babel Broken (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A reversal of fortunes of the breach sealed of the power given, The cacophony solved different language gone replaced by ...
Poems about language (51 Poems)
Acrostics (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alphabetic writing Coming alive on the page Reading the meaning in the letters Overcoming the mundane language Seeing the possibilities ...
Christ-filled (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A quick email to family, to friends, deciding to use the phrase Christ-filled knowing that not all would believe, that ...
Pilate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A man of power, without control an inquisitor questioned proconsul rebuked, challenged, An innocent king, brought before him, without stain, ...
The Hum of the Fan (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
All is quiet in the house, girls asleep, slowing down the only sound my fingers clicking these words the purr ...
Waiting for Her Son (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A traditional mother, dressed in native garb waiting for her son, living in another world, one more familiar to him, ...
Blending Concepts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The name of the sermon the point of the message was "Our Highest Ideal" but it was the underlying subtext ...
I Hope That is Water (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
With that urgent hope, a teacher started her day holding the hand of a young child at the beginning of ...
Excuse Me, Your Honor (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I rose to ask a question feeling unsure, a bit ill at ease like Bob Cratchett asking for coal or ...
Boot in einer Flasche (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Okay, for those who don't speak German, the title of the poem is "A Boat in a Bottle" and that's ...
Citations (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Precision Real precision No, real precision No, we mean it, real precision Characters, spaces, abbreviations, italics Statutes, reporters, Secondary sources ...
Kontraxtz (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I know, I know The word is contracts . Well. Notwithstanding. Aforesaid forbearance to assert Title manifest objection Ancient precedents ...
Actors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Plaintiffs and defendants Appellant appellee Pleader, respondent Opposing counsel Judge and jury Actors on the stage Assigned roles Scripted lines ...
Fuzzy Swears (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Some have heard of "fuzzy logic", that "powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) ." (no, not just what Shanequa or ...
Windward Dawn (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We were alone with our thoughts Warm breezes off the southerly ocean murmur of sea foam on a soft expanse ...
Must Consider (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What does it mean when we say that they shall consider or must consider X or Y or Z? Does ...
Costs not Expenses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...
The Falcon (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
Merops (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
What care I, so they stand the same,- Things of the heavenly mind,- How long the power to give them ...
Amor Profanus (Ernest Dowson Poem)
Beyond the pale of memory, In some mysterious dusky grove; A place of shadows utterly, Where never coos the turtle-dove, ...
Loud Music (Stephen Dobyns Poem)
My stepdaughter and I circle round and round. You see, I like the music loud, the speakers throbbing, jam-packing the ...
Elegy VII (John Donne Poem)
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love, And in that sophistry, Oh, thou dost prove Too subtle: Foole, thou ...
The Ecstasy (John Donne Poem)
Where, like a pillow on a bed A pregnant bank swell'd up to rest The violet's reclining head, Sat we ...
Many a phrase has the English language (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Many a phrase has the English language -- I have heard but one -- Low as the laughter of the ...
The Quiet Eye (Eliza Cook Poem)
THE ORB I like is not the one That dazzles with its lightning gleam; That dares to look upon the ...
In 200 B.C. (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
"Alexander son of Philip, and the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians--" We can very well imagine that they were utterly indifferent ...
Poseidonians (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The Poseidonians forgot the Greek language after so many centuries of mingling with Tyrrhenians, Latins, and other foreigners. The only ...
To Mary (William Cowper Poem)
The twentieth year is well nigh past Since first our sky was overcast;- Ah would that this might be the ...
Hiawathas’ photographing ( Part VI ) (Lewis Carroll Poems)
But my Hiawatha's patience, His politeness and his patience, Unaccountably had vanished, And he left that happy party. Neither did ...
Hiawatha’s Photographing (Lewis Carroll Poems)
From his shoulder Hiawatha Took the camera of rosewood, Made of sliding, folding rosewood; Neatly put it all together. In ...