Famous Poets and Poems:  Home  |  Poets  |  Poem of the Month  |  Poet of the Month  |  Top 50 Poems  |  Famous Quotes  |  Famous Love Poems

Back to main page Search for:


FamousPoetsAndPoems.com / Poets / Raymond A. Foss / Poems
Biography
Poems
Quotes
Books
Popular Poets
Langston Hughes

Shel Silverstein

Pablo Neruda

Maya Angelou

Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Frost

Emily Dickinson

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

E. E. Cummings

Walt Whitman

William Wordsworth

Allen Ginsberg

Sylvia Plath

Jack Prelutsky

William Butler Yeats

Thomas Hardy

Robert Hayden

Amy Lowell

Oscar Wilde

Theodore Roethke

All Poets  

See also:

Poets by Nationality

African American Poets

Women Poets

Thematic Poems

Thematic Quotes

Contemporary Poets

Nobel Prize Poets

American Poets

English Poets

Raymond A. Foss Poems
Back to Poems Page
To Touch – v2 by Raymond A. Foss

More than the others
senses of our bodies
more than sight, taste
more than our hearing, our sense of smell
all of these tied to memory
to our place in the world
yet touch so much more
how we live, how we love
how we relate to one another

Our bodies, our clay
the importance of one
to touch, to reach, to change
to lovingly touch our neighbors
loved ones and strangers
all drawn to our touch
to the connection, one to another
to the tactile sense of belonging
only in our touch

The sense of our creator
the potter molding us
true relationship with our savior
all in the organ of our skin
the sensation, the nerves
each one alive, changed forever
when another brushes
caresses, makes connection
through our sense of touch


October 25, 2010
on hearing my poem, “Beach Sand”,
read by Warwick Pascoe for television series
October 25, 2010

Copyright by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. All rights reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss for usage.
View Raymond A. Foss:  Poems | Quotes | Biography | Books

Home   |   About Project   |   Privacy Policy   |   Copyright Notice   |   Links   |   Link to Us   |   Tell a Friend   |   Contact Us
Copyright © 2006 - 2010 Famous Poets And Poems . com. All Rights Reserved.
The Poems and Quotes on this site are the property of their respective authors. All information has been
reproduced here for educational and informational purposes.