A Prayer for Justice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We lift up a humble prayer for peace, for wisdom for justice in our land for a mother fighting for ...
Raymond A. Foss Poems on Law & Regulation (539 Poems)
Balance (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Law - Poetry Accounting - Photography Balance Get through the words Elements of 1st degree murder Beauty of a fall ...
IT DEPENDS (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
How will the case go How will we ever know It depends On the totality of the circumstances The best ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
You think. (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
I judge, critique Prod, push For me You don't know Appreciate Believe In you Enough Take the challenge Live the ...
My Memo 1 Sucks (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Wow, I found a thesis sentence In my title above. A clear and concise position I can support Here, there, ...
No Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No Time To think, to plan, to dream, to be ready Reading slower as time goes on Words blur in ...
Into the Stream of Commerce (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Edit done (well, time ran out) Paper stamped and in Now the wait To validate or critique The thread, the ...
Study (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Study, argue, think Lawyers share common bonds with Artists How novel, how strange These seven boxes of time and space ...
Marking Time (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
3L year, want to be done Over, resolved, Bar & job won. Just completed, My last first class of My ...
Purchase (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Purchase - Impulse, Affirmation. Of future life, With an office Needing Art. 1/9/04 - 15:17 - About buying a print ...
Selfish Mistress (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hours per credit Eat my life Sunny days indoors Reading, writing, digesting Old brain Slow reader Applying principle To facts ...
Richness (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Vetted, checked, rechecked Branch on branch Dead ends and richness Teasing truths from the muck Seeing possibilities in hypothetical, Looping ...
Staying the Course (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Assignments building, Intersections of projects, time management, control Finding my way, back from panic Believing I can do it Finding ...
Quiet (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Quiet in the law school Late at night, after papers, exams Between time Late March, Early April Still halls Empty ...
Unprepared (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Panic fills my chest Angry that I didn't find time That my life got in the way Ever present, tantalizing, ...
Proudly Lust after our Sloth (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
As a law student, I long to Relish in sloth Kick back, lounge Linger when I shouldn't Lull the hours ...
Unexpected Conversation (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
New patrolman and law student Brothers Between classes Debating, over lunch Gray edges of law Exigent circumstances Criminal procedure Search ...
Bar (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Reexamination of law Forgotten, Pulling tendrils of memory to the front to be ready to answer the test New law ...
Idiots (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Feeble knats Buzzing in my classroom Inane questions Blank looks On doe-like faces Frozen in time By my knowledge Unable ...
Post-Graduate (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What do we learn from the roads not taken, of choices made without full exploration? "What if", and "where would ...
Simple Lessons (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pure distillation Living words informing our understanding Human existence Reclaiming the relationship lost at the fall and each failing of ...
To Tag (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
The Holy Continuum Stare Decisis (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
From the Beginning He was the Word From Abraham to Moses to David and the prophets The Law, to guide ...
With Authority (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The message is unknown; unimportant He spoke with authority. Now that was the thing The real message in the Word ...
Must Consider (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What does it mean when we say that they shall consider or must consider X or Y or Z? Does ...
Costs not Expenses (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
A fine line in the sand of import to find balance of equities costs yes, expenses no parsing subtleties of ...