Raymond A. Foss Poems Returning Homeby Raymond A. Foss A start of a new year, After the distance, the falling away Of the summer days, together again Singing, praying, listening A stronger voice than a year ago Reaching deeper, speaking clearer, More tested, more sure, of the audience A...
The speaker records how the couple has sex while talking about seemingly unimportant, domestic matters. At the end of the poem, the speaker shops for food items and eats with his partner. Here are a few lines: I cut the middle fingernail of the middle finger right hand real short and I ...
I dragged it all the way home, about a mile. Along the way I tried hard not to damage it or break off any branches. It was still in pretty good shape when I got home. I propped(支撑) it up against the railing(栅栏) on our front porch(走廊) and went in. 1. 所...
The animal psychologists discovered that when real dogs approached a life-sized robot dog, they were less cautious about it when it was wagging its tail to the left, while if it was wagging its tail to the right, far fewer dogs approached it in a confident manner. In the fir...
I will only take up my writing brush and go home to write a poem about Fengshan. 25.Yumen Pass [Tang] Lai Ji ConvergencebridleFollow Longhan and cross Yuguan with sadness. Today I am in the quicksand, and I am crying for my life. 26.Drinking Horses at the Great Wall Cave (Excerpt...
The slender tree is dressed in emerald all about, A thousand branches droop like fringes made of jade. But do you know by whom these slim leaves are cut out? The wind of early spring is sharp as scissor blade. In the quiet night So bright a gleam on the foot of my bed- Could ther...
That life is not just about you We are all in it together that is so true. The years go by in a blink of an eye What will people say about you when you die? Will they remember how hard you worked Or will they remember you as a jerk. ...
I present a poem inspired by autumn scenery. I drafted this poem more than 25 years ago while living with my sister in Toledo, Ohio. I have revised it multiple times over the years, never satisfied with the final result. While this version may not be perfect, I think it’s about the...
Within this I was free to move about as I chose.” Shelaidaha: 1878–1901 Because Debendranath wanted his son to become a barrister, Tagore enrolled at a public school in Brighton, East Sussex, England in 1878. He stayed for several months at a house that the Tagore family owned near...
no exchange about human sufferings before we went to bed. We were two women, neither was a mother. We talked about the starry sky, the philosophy of Kant, Mother Teresa, and cardiology. We mused about the atheists who became superstitious at old age, and how shadows could be prettier...