Acrostics (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Alphabetic writing Coming alive on the page Reading the meaning in the letters Overcoming the mundane language Seeing the possibilities ...
Poems about writing (34 Poems)
Shanequa (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Shine in the darkness Hear God's call in the wilderness Answer "Here I am Lord, use me" Never forget God's ...
Shyanne (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Share Christ's love in the world Hear the cry of the people Yearn to know God better Always be a ...
Ruth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Renew yourself with God's Word Use your gifts to bring others to God Thank God without ceasing Hear His call ...
Raymond (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Rail against injustice Advocate for the rights of the weak in court, in the gate, and in the schools Yearn ...
Erica (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Employ your gifts for His glory Remember the lessons you have been taught Invoke His name in blessings Communicate His ...
Four Poems (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not one, not two, not three, but four poems writing themselves simultaneously a jumble in my mind urging me down ...
Into Being (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Scribe, scrivener writing down what already is An agent of chemical process, fired synapses What every the mystery is Original ...
Sausage (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Forget the frank, Give me the Fenway sausage. Lansdowne or Yawkey, Just give me the street, the crowds, the carts. ...
Chapters (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Moments, months, years Shards of my life Frozen in amber Untidy segments Frayed edges, dead ends Lost years A blank ...
Building Blocks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Office memorandum Legal writing Predicting Discussion, relevant facts Building blocks Inevitable conclusion Weighing pros and cons Seeing both sides, My ...
Citations (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Precision Real precision No, real precision No, we mean it, real precision Characters, spaces, abbreviations, italics Statutes, reporters, Secondary sources ...
Unfocused (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Where is the thread The need to be on point Playing when I should be reading Looking for more sources ...
Christmas Trees (Robert Frost Poem)
(A Christmas Circular Letter) THE CITY had withdrawn into itself And left at last the country to the country; When ...
Magna Carta (Marriott Edgar Poem)
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
Ai (Denise Duhamel Poem)
There is a chimp named Ai who can count to five. There's a poet named Ai whose selected poems Vice ...
Mac Flecknoe (John Dryden Poem)
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
For Harry (My College Room-mate who Died) (Ivan Donn Carswell Poem)
He cut his hand and it bled, the flesh inside was red and the hurt discounted the flood of red ...
The First Step (Constantine P. Cavafy Poem)
The young poet Evmenis complained one day to Theocritus: "I've been writing for two years now and I've composed only ...
Saturday At The Border (Hayden Carruth Poem)
"Form follows function follows form . . . , etc." --Dr. J. Anthony Wadlington Here I am writing my first ...
The Sompnour’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer Poems)
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
Little Birds (Lewis Carroll Poem)
Little Birds are dining Warily and well, Hid in mossy cell: Hid, I say, by waiters Gorgeous in their gaiters ...
May (John Clare Poem)
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
See (Michael Burch Poem)
See how her hair has thinned: it does not seem / like hair at all, but like the airy moult ...
Freedom of Love (Andre Breton Poem)
(Translated from the French by Edouard Rodti) My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of ...
Part 5 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
WORSEWICK Worsewick Hot Springs was nothing fancy. Somebody put some boards across the creek. That was it. The boards dammed ...
Part 3 of Trout Fishing in America (Richard Brautigan Poem)
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
The Siege of Corinth (Lord Byron Poem)
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
Dream Song 20: The Secret of the Wisdom (John Berryman Poem)
When worst got things, how was you? Steady on? Wheedling, or shockt her & you have been bad to your ...
Bishop Blougram’s Apology (Robert Browning Poems)
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...