The Petals Unfurled (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The sun began to shine the petals unfurled precise order, sequence regimented, controlled synchronized blooming set down in the genetic ...
The sun began to shine the petals unfurled precise order, sequence regimented, controlled synchronized blooming set down in the genetic ...
Metamorphosis, like a snake casting off an old skin, a crab an outgrown shell, or maybe more akin to a ...
A rhododendron bush after the ice storm evolving marvels leaves of ice mirror echoes of the green below separating, new ...
A house of princesses greeted our three on the return from the church, the pageant practice a lost memory as ...
It was the white breast of the raptor, stoic in the aged tree sitting motionless, drinking in the light of ...
They sit, week on week, year on year, solitary matriarchs Hair of silver, grey, white, spun gold Stoic women, widows, ...
Above the bluff, the scar, the clear-cut of the power lines, a forest of pine opens to the north Surrounded ...
Poised and perched regal raptors on display in the open air fallen fliers, bandaged and mended saved to teach us ...
Oh Leaves of Red of leaves of red what would the father have said to see so many leaves of ...
A walk in spring to calm interview nerves smell of dogwood a burst of soft color, if pastels can burst, ...
Molded and shaped Specks of the rocks they once were Packed and organized in the buckets Like the seconds of ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
THE Queen of Birds, t'encrease the Regal Stock, Had hatch'd her young Ones in a stately Oak, Whose Middle-part was ...
Trees in groves, Kine in droves, In ocean sport the scaly herds, Wedge-like cleave the air the birds, To northern ...
Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance; Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Fair stood the wind for France When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance Longer will tarry; ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, Nor swiftewd greyhound follow, Whose foot ne'er tainted morning dew, Nor ear heard ...
That bright chimeric beast Conceived yet never born, Save in the poet's breast, The white-flanked unicorn, Never may be shaken ...
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...
I know 'tis but a loom of land, Yet is it land, and so I will rejoice, I know I ...
New England. 1 Alas, dear Mother, fairest Queen and best, 2 With honour, wealth, and peace happy and blest, 3 ...
"Oh yes, I went over to Edmonstoun the other day and saw Johnny, mooning around as usual! He will never ...
Remote and ineffectual Don That dared attack my Chesterton, With that poor weapon, half-impelled, Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held, Unworthy for ...
Fame, wisdom, love, and power were mine, And health and youth possessed me; My goblets blushed from every vine, And ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
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