Lunch with Dot (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Our work days were segmented, marked by sharing, growing as friends spending time in the side yard having lunch with ...
Poems about learning (35 Poems)
Energy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Energy, passion flowed from his manner, his words, his motion, his attention to detail, his bringing us with him as ...
Another Milestone (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She reached another milestone another hurdle cleared preparing herself for the next step another moment of success leading to the ...
Turning Five (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No longer the same little girl or is she, the same, really? An impish grin, cunning, negotiating a better deal ...
Seeing Their Hearing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Words cannot describe the wonder of discovery the play and banter preschoolers and kindergarten learning exploring, awakening to sound and ...
When the House is Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When the house is quiet and the girls are asleep sitting at my desk, at the computer studying, researching a ...
Like Davis, Unlike Keith (citations excluded) (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Lockwood Analogies, differences Learning how to see One from the other Scraps of case law Grounds for dismissal Basis for ...
Selfish Mistress (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hours per credit Eat my life Sunny days indoors Reading, writing, digesting Old brain Slow reader Applying principle To facts ...
Unexpected Conversation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
New patrolman and law student Brothers Between classes Debating, over lunch Gray edges of law Exigent circumstances Criminal procedure Search ...
Bar (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Reexamination of law Forgotten, Pulling tendrils of memory to the front to be ready to answer the test New law ...
Marcy (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pandora's Box Burst open a year ago today Because you gave us an assignment To read a poem. I took ...
Learning (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Voracious appetite For learning new things about many topics To acquire knowledge and context of why things are as they ...
Joyful Tears (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Tears of joy welled up in his heart spilled down his cheeks in the pew again Frozen Yankee stoicism melted ...
Poem For Maya (Carolyn Forche Poem)
Dipping our bread in oil tins we talked of morning peeling open our rooms to a moment of almonds, olives ...
The Monks Of Catalonia (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
The Devil In Hell (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
HE surely must be wrong who loving fears; And does not flee when beauty first appears. Ye FAIR, with charms ...
A Tale of the Miser and the Poet (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
Cartoon Physics, Part 1 (Nick Flynn Poem)
Children under, say, ten, shouldn't know that the universe is ever-expanding, inexorably pushing into the vacuum, galaxies swallowed by galaxies, ...
Monadnoc (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Oxford Thrushes (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
FEBRUARY, 1917 I never thought again to hear The Oxford thrushes singing clear, Amid the February rain, Their sweet, indomitable ...
Departed — to the Judgment — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Departed -- to the Judgment -- A Mighty Afternoon -- Great Clouds -- like Ushers -- learning -- Creation -- ...
Men with trivial scars (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
We wear scars from our youth, trifling things reflecting those earnings from growing days, of battles raised and wounds worn ...
The Miller’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
California Plush (Frank Bidart Poem)
The only thing I miss about Los Angeles is the Hollywood Freeway at midnight, windows down and radio blaring bearing ...
Stanza (Emily Bronte Poem)
Often rebuked, yet always back returning To those first feelings that were born with me, And leaving busy chase of ...
To The Students Of The Workers’ And Peasants’ Faculty (Bertolt Brecht Poems)
So there you sit. And how much blood was shed That you might sit there. Do such stories bore you? ...
The Country Of Marriage (Wendell Berry Poem)
I. I dream of you walking at night along the streams of the country of my birth, warm blooms and ...
Lines to a Don (Hilaire Belloc Poem)
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
Master Hugues Of Saxe-Gotha (Robert Browning Poem)
An imaginary composer.] I. Hist, but a word, fair and soft! Forth and be judged, Master Hugues! Answer the question ...