In the Dark Places Where She Dwell (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
So much sadness years of suffering A long night of pain She struggled for rapture for something to cling to ...
Poems about release (51 Poems)
Milkweed Bouquet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like a bloom of tongues, tasting the fall air, a shepherd's hook of a milkweed plant heavy pod drawn to ...
A King (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A king, not of this world being baited, tested, by the emissary, the local ruler, representative of the Emperor Would ...
Thompson Hall (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
It was a moment of fate a convergence of events that gave me an opportunity chance to capture spark in ...
Capturing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Capturing an image on the pane of film burned by the shutter release aperture and speed snap, frozen really a ...
Comet Kohotek (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A forgotten bit of space dust heralded before its fizzle but a wealth, a treasure for this son, sharing a ...
Balance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Law - Poetry Accounting - Photography Balance Get through the words Elements of 1st degree murder Beauty of a fall ...
Balance – Stephano’s Lament (Raymond A. Foss Poems)
"Caliban, Trinculo, My insolent mates, Don't you know me?" It is Stephano. Pour me another mug of mead To block ...
Demons (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Thoughts and memories Baggage carried for way too long How to shed pain and confusion When so much time has ...
Two Fish (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Two fish Under the spell Of the fisherman. One in the bucket One on the line, Hook deep into flesh. ...
Healing Hands (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hands joined in humble, reverent prayer around the tables of our meeting praying for comfort and release for our friend ...
The Nightingale (Jean de La Fontaine Poem)
NO easy matter 'tis to hold, Against its owner's will, the fleece Who troubled by the itching smart Of Cupid's ...
The Executor (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
A Greedy Heir long waited to fulfill, As his Executor, a Kinsman's Will; And to himself his Age repeated o'er, ...
On The Hurricane (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
The Flood (Robert Frost Poem)
Blood has been harder to dam back than water. Just when we think we have it impounded safe Behind new ...
October (Robert Frost Poem)
O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow's wind, if it be wild, Should waste ...
Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages (T. S. Eliot Poem)
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
Four Quartets 1: Burnt Norton (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
He Loves Me (Mark van Doren Poem)
That God should love me is more wonderful Than that I so imperfectly love him. My reason is mortality, and ...
Visitation (Mark Doty Poem)
When I heard he had entered the harbor, and circled the wharf for days, I expected the worst: shallow water, ...
The White Bees (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
Music (Henry Van Dyke Poem)
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The Debt (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
This is the debt I pay Just for one riotous day, Years of regret and grief, Sorrow without relief. Pay ...
The long sigh of the Frog (Emily Dickinson Poem)
The long sigh of the Frog Upon a Summer's Day Enacts intoxication Upon the Revery -- But his receding Swell ...
Joy to have merited the Pain — (Emily Dickinson Poem)
Joy to have merited the Pain -- To merit the Release -- Joy to have perished every step -- To ...
As from the earth the light Balloon (Emily Dickinson Poem)
As from the earth the light Balloon Asks nothing but release -- Ascension that for which it was, Its soaring ...
What does it take? (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
Is the current rate of global warming a serious and cogent warning? Do we need to think about the fact ...
I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago (Bliss Carman Poem)
(Sappho XXIII) I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago, When the great oleanders were in flower In the broad ...
From The Ladies Defence (Lady Mary Chudleigh Poem)
Melissa: I've still rever'd your Order as Divine; And when I see unblemish'd Virtue ...
Heritage (Countee Cullen Poem)
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal ...