Light Flakes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Light flakes, clusters of powder dancing in the air falling, defying gravity, swirling, spinning, rising puffed up by the side ...
Light flakes, clusters of powder dancing in the air falling, defying gravity, swirling, spinning, rising puffed up by the side ...
The snow, blowing, drifting stinging my face, the swirls bringing my throw, shovelful, back at me laughing, smiling to myself ...
They, whoever they are, say you should eat a good hot breakfast I don't think they had this in mind ...
Showers of New Snow Light powder of confectionary sugar Filtered down through the night air On forest and field Oak ...
A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred, With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed; Enquiring, how he did ...
While Monarchs in stern Battle strove For proud Imperial Sway; Abandon'd to his milder Love, Within a silent peaceful Grove, ...
Tis true of courage I'm no mistress No Boadicia nor Thalestriss Nor shall I e'er be famed hereafter For such ...
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
It snowed in spring on earth so dry and warm The flakes could find no landing place to form. Hordes ...
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
How far is it to peace, the piper sighed, The solitary, sweating as he paused. Asphalt the noon; the ravens, ...
His Remedy for Love Since to obtain thee nothing will be stead, I have a med'cine that shall cure my ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
Here take my picture; though I bid farewell, Thine, in my heart, where my soul dwells, shall dwell. 'Tis like ...
He is stark mad, who ever says, That he hath been in love an hour, Yet not that love so ...
A Man may make a Remark -- In itself -- a quiet thing That may furnish the Fuse unto a ...
My maternal grandparents were snowbirds; the scent of their plumage an evergreen air freshener dangling off the rearview mirror of ...
Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
In the usual iconography of the temple or the local Wok you would never see him doing such a thing, ...
1. Dear relatives and friends, when my last breath Grows large and free in air, don't call it death -- ...
The last pose flickered, failed. The screen's dead white Glared in a sudden flooding of harsh light Stabbing the eyes; ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea-- call ...
Something strange is creeping across me. La Celestina has only to warble the first few bars Of "I Thought about ...
ONE Queen Artemisia, as old stories tell, When deprived of her husband she loved so well, In respect for the ...
ORTHODOX! orthodox, who believe in John Knox, Let me sound an alarm to your conscience: A heretic blast has been ...
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