Not the End to Evil (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
One man's death though somewhat cathartic yet bringing the pain the loss back to the forefront One man's death hardly ...
One man's death though somewhat cathartic yet bringing the pain the loss back to the forefront One man's death hardly ...
Easy with a demon putting a face on evil calling out bin Laden the leader of al Qaeda But now ...
A sense of vindication of closure for the loss not joy in the killing in the taking of a life ...
A quiet resolve a sense of some closure; but the pain still there our innocence gone Without cheering no joy ...
Even the death of evil taken by his choosing refusing to submit to stand in the dock of justice Saddened ...
Do we mourn even for the death of evil of a person bent on our destruction How can we be ...
Victory over evil in the cries of war the terrorist brought down but may we not gloat Not like the ...
Seeping into our consciousness the images, the smells the lessons of the cherry blossoms the truths we know so well ...
The sadness heavy hanging down on her a lead cloak draped over her frame Hope turned to sadness weighing her ...
Somehow appropriate the imagery of destruction the counterpoint of the blossoms the sacred cherry trees Something precious in the transience ...
A reminder of mortality in the falling blossoms captured on images the spirit of their nation The ancient screens images ...
In my mind's eye remembering some that I had seen the words on the radio speaking to me In lines ...
Like bolls of color yet falling from the branches the heavy blossoms of the cherry tree Beauty in each cluster ...
Joining in the praying the energy shifting sending our prayers joining with them Lifted up for the people that the ...
For the dead we pray joining with their people sharing the words with them our energy with theirs That they ...
Offering up a wish a prayer for our nation no matter his motive that we would grow stronger leaning on ...
Something corrosive when we are walled-off from our neighbors when the sameness defines our sense of community All of us ...
Thinking about God speaking words of love anointing the Christ with His Holy Spirit Sending Him out to heal the ...
The girls and me like the others seated on the curb, some in chairs as the bands marched by Standing ...
In some ways, he is standing on their shoulders, fulfilling their dreams, his dream made real, in this moment this ...
He numbers our days before we are born A question of how, of how the Creator could number our days ...
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