Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Reflections
    Reflections
    Reflections
    Ebook122 pages23 minutes

    Reflections

    By James Elliott Foster

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him.

    "Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition...a condition each of us shares with Mr. Foster.

    As Mr. Foster puts it, "While [each of us] will experience a different combination of moments, phases, and places, I'm hoping my poetry will have meaning to [everyone] -- will trigger memories, of the moments, phases, and places that are special in [each reader's life]"

    Poetry Review
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456617462
    Reflections

    Related to Reflections

    Related ebooks

    Photography For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Dana Algosaibi

      Sep 6, 2021

      Dana Algosaibi
      8 min read

    • Article

      Diary of a Displaced Person

      Aug 17, 2017

      Diary of a Displaced Person
      6 min read

    • Article

      Jørn ‘Necrobutcher’ Stubberud

      Sep 16, 2021

      ‘Necrobutcher’ Stubberud is an extreme metal lifer. Aside from a three-year period in the early 90s, the 53-year-old bassist has steered the Norwegian icons since founding the band in 1984. Today, he’s the band’s longest-serving member, weathering th

      5 min read

    • Article

      Fiction: Wolfdreams

      Feb 12, 2022

      Fiction: Wolfdreams
      6 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Letters

      Jun 2, 2021

      SIR: John Sutherland’s piece ‘Larkin’s bare cheek’ (May issue) reminded me of Philip Larkin officially opening the new Library at Leicester University on 27th September 1975. As sub-librarian for administrative matters, I had to organise the occasion

      5 min read

    • Article

      Notes on Etiquette

      Mar 1, 2019

      Notes on Etiquette
      10 min read

    • Article

      My Always

      Oct 1, 2020

      My Always
      4 min read

    • Article

      “I Cherish Every Moment”

      Jan 26, 2022

      “I Cherish Every Moment”
      9 min read

    • Article

      Edge Walker

      Feb 20, 2019

      Edge Walker
      19 min read

    • Article

      “I Cherish Every Moment”

      Jan 26, 2022

      “I Cherish Every Moment”
      9 min read

    • Article

      My Shadow

      Jul 23, 2020

      My Shadow
      4 min read

    • Article

      Your Poetry

      May 28, 2021

      Email your poems to: (editorial@choicemag.co.uk) or post to Your Poetry, Choice, 4 Milnyard Square, Orton Southgate, Peterborough PE2 6GX There’s a train that runs on barren track, along the side & at the back,of the caravan. The children laugh & sho

      3 min read

    • Article

      Speedboat

      Mar 24, 2022

      Nobody died that year. Nobody prospered. There were no births or marriages. Seventeen reverent satires were written – disrupting a cliché and, presumably, creating a genre. That was a dream, of course, but many of the most important things, I fi nd,

      14 min read

    • Article

      Phil Bozeman

      Jan 6, 2022

      PHIL BOZEMAN FACED down the worst life had to offer early on. The Tennessee-born Whitechapel singer lost both parents by the time he was in his mid-teens – his dad to a heart attack, his troubled mother to drug addiction. Rather than drown in his own

      5 min read

    • Article

      Dr Edith Eger I REMEMBER…

      Apr 20, 2021

      Dr Edith Eger I REMEMBER…
      5 min read

    • Article

      Follow Her Forward, The Innocent Hare

      Jun 16, 2022

      It was the edge of a scrubby wood in Suffolk, sometime when I was at university – 1972 or 1973. I was having a picnic with friends, and we were playing frisbee, a red one, and I was running across the lumpy grassy terrain to where it had dropped. As

      12 min read

    • Article

      The Home of Two Cliffs

      Mar 1, 2021

      The Home of Two Cliffs
      9 min read

    • Article

      This Party’s Over

      Aug 21, 2020

      This Party’s Over
      10 min read

    • Article

      Paul O’grady

      Sep 12, 2022

      Paul O’grady
      5 min read

    • Article

      Vincentka Vs Garbage Water – An Original Short Story By Helen Oyeyemi

      Dec 19, 2021

      Winter: Each time you step outdoors your toes curl – well, they try to – and you hiss into your scarf. The temperature’s like a shock and awe manoeuvre; it stupefies. Morning after morning either I or the lady at the newspaper kiosk make the announce

      9 min read

    • Article

      A.a. Williams

      Feb 4, 2021

      DESPITE HAVING ONLY one EP and an album to her name, A.A. Williams has proved herself to be a master of texture, emotion and space. And, despite not being a metal artist by standard definitions, her doomy yet cathartic blend of classical, soul and da

      5 min read

    • Article

      It Happened to Me…

      Aug 10, 2023

      It Happened to Me…
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Reflections

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Reflections - James Elliott Foster

      *****

      Part I: Moments

      Singular Moments

      There are singular moments –

      Snapshots in time

      Which are so stirring, so moving,

      That they are quickly

      And completely

      Interwoven

      With and by our senses

      Into our very fabric,

      And they remain

      With us,

      Forever,

      Even though

      We experience them

      Only once.

      Like a moment

      In Williamsburg,

      On a warm June evening,

      With fireflies sprinkling the Common,

      And magnolias scenting the air,

      And sweet chilled wine

      Shared

      With a strolling balladeer…

      That moment became

      And always will be

      Part of my being,

      Even though

      I experienced it

      Only Once.

      Or like a cold gray moment

      In a rain-soaked October morning,

      When I heard the muffled sobs

      In my brother’s throat,

      And felt his trembling shoulders

      Beneath my arm,

      As we huddled

      Graveside

      Near his stillborn son’s

      Small white coffin…

      Part of me.

      Even though

      I experienced it

      Only once.

      Those singular moments,

      And countless,

      Priceless others –

      Good

      And bad –

      Have made me

      A man

      Sensitive

      To such moments…

      A man

      Trusting

      In what those moments

      Give to us…

      Only once.

      *****

      *****

      1. In the Back of the Car

      When I was five,

      My sister was eight,

      And we loved to

      Take rides in the car.

      Both Sis and I

      Would sit in the back,

      While our parents

      Would sit in the front.

      And she and I

      Would play in the back,

      While our parents

      Would talk about "plans".

      We loved our games,

      And we didn’t know

      That our parents

      Thought something was wrong.

      She’s slow, they said,

      "Retarded...too slow."

      But we never

      Could tell what they meant.

      And then one night,

      Our father said, "kids,

      Bundle up, now –

      We’re taking a trip."

      We grabbed our coats,

      My sister and I,

      Then we ran out

      And jumped in the car.

      We rode along,

      And played in the back,

      While our parents

      Just looked straight ahead.

      Then pretty soon,

      We came to this gate,

      Where my father

      Got out in the snow,

      And Mom said, "Son,

      "You stay here with me

      While your father

      Takes

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1