Rice Paper Maples (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The leaves of last autumn bled all their colors like rice paper maples not yet on the ground Illumined like ...
The leaves of last autumn bled all their colors like rice paper maples not yet on the ground Illumined like ...
In reds and yellows in greens and orange God sharing autumn with us in the colors of the leaves So ...
God's grace awash with color showering down on us even in their dying The maples singing all of creation alive ...
The blazing yellow offset against the white the black outlines the birch before its sleeping With some green remaining ribbing ...
The maples a palette a range of colors more than the others the trees of autumn offering witness to the ...
Shining like the maples brightly in autumn the greens transformed in colors of the rainbow singing joyously praises to the ...
The pool vernal hiding in the new leaves behind the screen of the maples obscured from ready view Hiding, bashful ...
The morning sticky moisture coming, rising on my brow my forehead, almost without exertion calling for the tissue to mop ...
In the city block, right behind downtown two might maples in their backyard Walking home from school dropping off the ...
Running for coffee out to the car, still night The sound of the wind in the maples, losing their leaves ...
Under the leaves, the stems the broad, dark-summer maples little pearls, half-droplets like upside-down bell curves heavy droplets stirring shaking, ...
planes of the forest, the marsh, the meadows long grasses, ferns, green upon the waters cat o' nine tails, pines, ...
A rain of color, the leaves of the maples, different kinds, red, sugar, swamp, all torquing, canting, twisting, inexorably, to ...
Walking around the parkway, cut through the wooded place long after this land was a lake, long after the bog ...
Finding the tares, the weeds the grasses, the ragweed, milkweed and plantain, growing, thriving in the lilies, the beds, the ...
A hillside, white birch, maples, poplar red patina, wash overlaid over the white, the gray buds erupting, a hillside ablaze ...
After the rains, the cold heavy fall rains, there was a different forest, a change shades of brown, of yellow, ...
Like nothing other than gumdrops the rounded tops of the colorful maples adorned the side of the street on our ...
Driving in New England on these fall days with brown oak leaves on the ground of the forests, I keep ...
Buckets and buckets of sap, culled from willing maples pouring into the vat the cauldron atop the old, crumbling outdoor ...
A space in the dark untrammeled woods Off the path Under the watch of maples and birch A bed of ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter, And from the orchard a voice echoes and ...
The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool-- Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool; ...
He halted in the wind, and--what was that Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost? He stood there ...
The bear puts both arms around the tree above her And draws it down as if it were a lover ...
Her teacher's certainty it must be Mabel Made Maple first take notice of her name. She asked her father and ...
This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark ...
Dear March -- Come in -- How glad I am -- I hoped for you before -- Put down your ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
Gray rainwater lay on the grass in the late afternoon. The carp lay on the bottom, resting, while dusk took ...
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