Healing a Nation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
That phrase, "healing a nation" kept going through my mind this morning thinking about the legacy, the model, the example ...
Poems about united (51 Poems)
Pilate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A man of power, without control an inquisitor questioned proconsul rebuked, challenged, An innocent king, brought before him, without stain, ...
Jesus Began to Weep (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We heard a story, a very personal, very public story of the friend who died, the friends who didn't understand ...
Peace March Signs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Signs caught my eye so much a part of the message Along with the feet marching, were the signs, "End ...
Exhortations from the Pulpit (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
She raised words of actions calls to action, to not stand in the way; but to enable, to embolden, to ...
The Devil in Us All (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The Pastor was right about the error, the missed point of the scripture in the speech of the firebrand, the ...
Blending Concepts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The name of the sermon the point of the message was "Our Highest Ideal" but it was the underlying subtext ...
Prayers of Peace (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Prayers for peace rose up in many tongues from the congregation gathered round a new pole hewn by parishioner hands ...
A Gush of Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Metaphors, images, concepts, pictures thoughts welled up spilled over washed over me from her words his words From the pulpit, ...
A Rustic Cathedral (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A small sacred, holy space cloistered in the edge of the woods a place for reflection, meditation for fellowship and ...
Dance of the Marionette (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
He rose to speak of not one but the dance of two kings two men of different moment different weight ...
Anniversary (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
An anniversary Of a moment (if many hours can be but a moment) When pain brought a common numbing A ...
Half Staffs (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
D-Day and The Fourth Bookends of a month In the life of the Nation The death of a President Reminders ...
The Final Word (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Oh it will be wonderful At the end of the age For those who believe To see that heavenly place ...
Covenants (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Words of heart and hope shared and pondered as brothers and sisters in praise and prayer tonight Our church owning ...
A Journey of Treasure (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Like the Magi, We are each on the journey a quest for the king Ourselves the treasure, the metal, the ...
A Frozen Prayer (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A prayer hidden and silent Stones submerged by winter's blanket Covered and cold beneath the grip of frost If they ...
In His Presence (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In His presence, at His feet longing to hear the master speak Aware of the power, authority, the words of ...
When the Evening Darkens (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
When the evening darkens and the day cools and the stars flicker to light I sat on the blanket with ...
The Spleen (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
What art thou, SPLEEN, which ev'ry thing dost ape? Thou Proteus to abus'd Mankind, Who never yet thy real Cause ...
Ardelia to Melancholy (Anne Kingsmill Finch Poem)
At last, my old inveterate foe, No opposition shalt thou know. Since I by struggling, can obtain Nothing, but encrease ...
A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books (Robert Frost Poems)
Old Davis owned a solid mica mountain In Dalton that would someday make his fortune. There'd been some Boston people ...
Blight (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Give me truths, For I am weary of the surfaces, And die of inanition. If I knew Only the herbs ...
Celestial Love (Ralph Waldo Emerson Poem)
Higher far, Upward, into the pure realm, Over sun or star, Over the flickering Dæmon film, Thou must mount for ...
Mr. Apollinax (T. S. Eliot Poem)
WHEN Mr. Apollinax visited the United States His laughter tinkled among the teacups. I thought of Fragilion, that shy figure ...
Ash Wednesday (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to ...
Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding (T. S. Eliot Poem)
I Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When ...
Absalom And Achitophel (John Dryden Poem)
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
The Barrier (Paul Laurence Dunbar Poem)
The Midnight wooed the Morning Star, And prayed her: "Love come nearer; Your swinging coldly there afar To me but ...
Night’s sentinel (Ivan Donn Carswell Poems)
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...