by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Beauty and Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I have never seen a man who loved virtue as much as he loved beauty.” ~ Confucius Men love the truth . . . perhaps . . . if...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Black, Not Shining, Yet the Truth Strikes Through Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tiny fly or wasp-like beast walks six Legs straight across my screens, computer’s, then My phone’s. He pauses for a...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Sea of Floating Crystal Balls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The reason poetry has always been Required is that most people lack the power To spell out utterness as perfect kin To Tuesday nights,...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Chalk Hill Blue and Duke of Burgundy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Eyes need to let the butterflies go in And settle where they will inside the chest Or brain, in memory, or spread wings within The...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cleopas, His Friends, and the Stranger with Disappearing Powers “and he vanished” ~ Luke 24 The day was ending. Evening was about To settle in. They asked a man to stay And eat with them. The twilight suffered rout Because he raised his hands. Dark leapt away. They...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Undarked Revelation Ottawa physicist challenges dark matter’s existence, doubles universe’s age (msn.com) No dark, dark matter can be found inside The universe though stars swell vast beyond Imagining. The cosmos being wide Enough to...
by phillipw | Mar 20, 2024 | Uncategorized
Stones of Venice Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We call the blinds Venetian but of course If opened they don’t yield Venetian views. They block the sight of English boredom, force Much...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
Amorino Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I loved to buy the things that she deserved, Venetian and Parisian in style, The Positano, surcoat-like coat served With jewellery...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
All Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin” ~ William Shakespeare, Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida Electron microscopes can...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Day before the Great God’s Sabbath Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “By meer playing go to Heaven” ~ Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1621 – April 23, 1695) My brothers, cousins (I, too) went...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Stalking My Prospero does not need Plato’s thought Or Jesus’s. No Buddha is required. My cat ignores the mouse that he just caught, Walks past it where it, crumpled, lies expired, Ignores it since it isn’t any fun Once crushed. It isn’t that he...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Small Carved Ivory Spheres Inside of Small Carved Ivory Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I’m fearful for I’m coming to the last Crammed pages in my last book by the man Who long...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2024 | FI, Uncategorized
Remember Life and Death Are Indivisible — and That Means One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem First poems — and the last — let each one seize. If it’s the first, make sure...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Secular Satori Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “a chance to live in the eternal world now, in ‘Eternity’s glad sunrise.’ ” R. H. Blyth, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics p....
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Fringe Benefits I Called Him for the White Fuzz Decorations on the Edges of Black Ears Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In garden ground there just behind my house Is where we buried Bene in a box...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Greyfriars’ Bobby Notwithstanding Let others mourn when we have died, when I Have died, if that is what their inner selves Require. Some humans may decide to cry Yet cool in sepulchres along the shelves Are jars that hold the final outcome to Such tears. Black...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
Prospero and Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Prospero with black and white fur, pink Of nose and subtle green his staring eye Greets God and Christ, he’ll meet them...
by phillipw | Mar 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Compassing the Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Suffer the little children” ~ Jesus Christ If you are tempted to fly up to truth, Consider bending down instead where you Might find a...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Magnolia x Soulangeana Floral Deposits Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The buds that die before they blossom fall On asphalt and the common. Even pinks, The whispered stripes of pinks are...
by phillipw | Feb 29, 2024 | MO, NE, SA, Uncategorized, UR
Tiny Moons of Neptune and Uranus in Humans’ Unimagined Years-long Hours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The news is that “new tiny moons” have been Discovered near far giant planets made Of gas, past...
by phillipw | Feb 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
Everest and Oceans Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because I have you, now I want to climb Among the mountains known as love, the peaks That glisten with romance and hear the chime Of...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Moon’s Climb Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The purpose of the moon is not to rise At twilight or to signal start of night, To mark the end the day or make more wise The half light of...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
For Charles Randall Stanfield on 71st His Birthday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If suns were smog and smog were suns, if fog Were clean and bright yet suns’ corona’s dim Like haar, if deserts’ sun...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low” Cordelia’s mistake was in her taut Mouth, silence, she refusing praise where praise Was needed, truth expressed as praise. She ought To have found other methods, other ways To counter sisters’ flattery. She gives Lear...
by phillipw | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Foldable Blossom Doom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because his fancies were not quite the norm, The notion of hydrangeas being like A mad old lady, mind and heart in storm, Had never...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Blue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ‘But gang she east, or gang she west” ~ Robert Burns; “The Blue-eyed Lassie” as published in The Analectic Magazine September 1813 This...
by phillipw | Jan 21, 2024 | AB, AE, BE, DE, ES, PH, Uncategorized, YA
Awe of the Heavenly Bodies Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The moon would kill to have a face the shape And beauty that yours shows, the smoothness, force, The splendor of your dazzle with escape...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
Annie Dillard’s Appetite Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When God set up wide worlds, He did not know, Or, if He did, that makes things even worse. The splendor of the slaughter, black light...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden and Prunus x subhirtella Fukubana Prunus × subhirtella ‘Fukubana’|winter-flowering cherry ‘Fukubana’/RHS Gardening Where freedom flurrs is wisdom if the mind Where freedom flies is purified in form...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
David Rejected Weaker Emotion at Least Once in His Strength Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “To be ungrateful to your intellect is just as bad as ingratitude to a benefactor.” ~ R. H....
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Buckle Sometimes the language sings much wiser than The mind. The mind is left behind by lines That supersede the poet and the man. He knows as soon as they are written, signs From heaven or Nirvana nimbus-like, Unknown high astral bodies...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Unthinking Music of the Stars “night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.” Psalm 19:2,3 Near infinite in number, stars, these spheres Both vast and small, are singing to the ranks Of angels and archangels, to...
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Supposedly Mute Swans Sing Only When They Court Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In nature hymnal words are absent, no Necessity for them in wildebeests. No piety is needed. Creatures know Their niches. ...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ho Ho (Hum) Seven As boring as an alto’s pulsing throat (Or tenor’s) singing Schumann lieder, or “Four Seasons” on your phone, an anecdote Your uncle has retold ten times before, A James Yawned movie comes around again. They’re all the same, same...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2023 | IN, LO, UN, Uncategorized
Lunar Martyr Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He thought of just this one, this one, this one — Again — Again — AGAIN — as if insane With love, or something, powerfully as a gun That blasts away...
by phillipw | Nov 11, 2023 | AB, Uncategorized, YA
Not Just Stars Your eyes glow, not just stars , more moon and sun. The stars and sun are more than fire, the moon Of water made. Its frozen waves are one With ever meltingness and change too soon Yet they are overarched by solar heat And North Star fixity. ...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2023 | ER, ET, Uncategorized
The name that can be named is not an eternal name. ~ Laotse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A flower exists in some place far from men, Or far from where its colors and its smell Can be rejoiced in. Far...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
Continuum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The lotus rises through the pond but first Through mud. The stalk, the floating leaves, the flower Itself arise. In silences they burst In...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | BO, EN, Uncategorized, ZE
Tuesday as Spiritual Breakthrough Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The master teacher of the Zen monks tells One monk to jump to foaming whirlpool waves. He jumps and finds himself in no deep wells...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2023 | JA, SA, Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Japan has gods. They know their place. Their place Lies set in leaves and flowers, in anger’s sea. These gods all know one law of Stoic face And steel, as rigid as those...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2023 | CH, LO, MO, Uncategorized
More Lovely than a Golden Spiral Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The chambered nautilus propels his shell Through nighttime waves. He sails much longer than His cousins, octopus and squid. The swell...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2023 | Uncategorized
Epics and Roads The epics of the Greeks, then Roman roads — They go — and go, and last — and last — . The Appian Way’s length — and Olympic odes — Seem destined for forever. Histories cast From ancient lyres and interlocking stones Now teach the...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Artificial Sintelligence Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The world will hardly be the world at all In coming years and decades, never mind Millennia. Reality will sprawl Away from humans. ...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Use Cameras Taking Moving Scenes Twenty-four Frames per Sec— Brian Cox as Agammemnon, for Instance, Pitted against Brad Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Let’s make solemnity a bit Of fluff and send it out...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2023 | CO, GA, LO, PI, RO, SA, SI, ST, TE, Uncategorized
Harlequin in Guise of Tuberculosis Hovering When love is played in luscious settings, clowns Are needed. Sad or comic they can be But never tragic, really, dressed in gowns That do not give the game away. We see Them loving like doom’s humans, threatening clown Just...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2023 | CH, LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized
Wide and Narrow in Their Fate Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Aurora borealis touches dreams Of men and poets as they wander through The realm of loving, hopeful planetary streams Of matter from the...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Song-like Language Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A song-like language unsurprisingly Has only partial overlap with tongues Of spoken dictions. Tantalizingly It comes from heart and not...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Stretching The only beast which needs a sense of praise And prayer, the animal which wants to turn the sky To similes and metaphors, then raise The universe to something more than eye Can find, the one who wills out poetry And art decides he...
by phillipw | Sep 19, 2023 | FA, MA, Uncategorized
There Are Other Organs than the Heart: Body Parts for Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary...
by phillipw | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Argument at the Christmas Dinner Table “A group of hyenas can devour an entire zebra, leaving no leftovers—not even the bones— in under half an hour. However, this feeding frenzy comes at a cost; hyenas rip, claw, and fight with one another over the remains of their...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
Hitler Wrote Mein Kampf in Prison… Achtung! The greatest wrong that nations can commit Is sucking up to politician crime And voting for a steaming piece of shit. They freely choose a human made of slime And put that dollop in the place where right Should be. They...
by phillipw | Aug 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Freedom and Love When Woman cannot hold her Man, she keeps His essence in her womb, held tight and then Extrudes it as his son. The lover seeps Away as years go by—the way of men. The woman has her son she took as seed From him, though. Years go by...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Fragments of a Golden Glimpse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Perhaps light glints (that run the eyelid’s rim Of midnight), blue in arc above the stare (Black circle perfect as a priestly hymn) Mean...
by phillipw | Aug 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Scars Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Hard scars called love express tectonic plates Beneath the surface of the heart that move In pain. These scars well up between the straits...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Abhishek Awake and Dreaming Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He rides along inside a sleeper car With wilder jungle greens of India in rain Inside his eye. His home, his village far Away, still,...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Nibbling Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When ugliness and beauty meet in shape Of flesh, the one attempts to reach with charm, A smile of wishful lips, a touch like crepe...
by phillipw | Jun 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Their Father’s Medication–“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers” Their father’s voice resounded not as pure As Wilma’s in “The Holy City”–yet As utter in his recitation, cure For evils all around, a voice to whet Our...
by phillipw | May 28, 2023 | CH, MA, ST, Uncategorized, WH
E-scrapbooks of Holiness Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The images consulted most are those Of love, well, lovers. Highest in the search Are photographs where we and lovers pose. Clichés count...
by phillipw | May 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ritual and Stylization Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “There is no God and Mary is His Mother.” ~ George Santayana “Some keep the Sabbath going to church” ~ Emily Dickinson It doesn’t...
by phillipw | May 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Sublimation from Solid Straight to Neon If we could turn you into something pure, We might choose poetry, or paint, or stone. The words might cleanse out faults then scalpel cure. The words would take away all gasp and moan. The painting on the canvas would not...
by phillipw | May 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Creators of G gle Couldn’t Spare the Time to Spell Its Name Right “The problem with instant gratification is that it isn’t quick enough.” ~ attributed to a Hollywood starlet An ancient literary thinker writes That after you have written...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2023 | DO, FA, RE, Uncategorized
In a World Weltered with Religions and Atheism Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem How far can we still look with eyes of faiths In spite of doubt and science twined like chains Of platinum and gold among...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2023 | BE, MA, SC, SI, Uncategorized
The British Broadcasting Corporation’s Prophets among Us on Civilisations and Acting like Hubble and Webb Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Those vaster minds show greater grasp of things, So, so much...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2023 | AR, DE, DI, GR, PH, SC, Uncategorized
Figuring Futilely on the Death Date of Shakespeare “But thy eternal summer shall not fade” ~ Sonnet 18 The statue still defies his death or hers Two thousands years or more beyond the grave Or urn of ashes, shaping that prefers The perfect lie that, carving, Greeks...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2023 | CH, MA, Uncategorized
More Sacred than a Spiritual Crocus A blossom holds more steady than the flare Above a candle in the air of night. As steady as a young nun’s golden prayer Before the altar, yellow blossom’s height Is reaching up for God or higher to Agape love itself...
by phillipw | Apr 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
Holding In She lies and looks at him, his now closed eyes, His slightly glossy eyelids with a glint Of brown and purple in their shine. His thighs She does not look at. They contain the hint Of forceful thrusting still, a hint of hair Involved,...
by phillipw | Apr 17, 2023 | HA, Uncategorized
Haste Maketh Debased “Brevity is the soul of sh*t.” One thing I really loathe about the way Most people now communicate online With friends and family is that textings say As little as is possible, decline To say enough to make the meaning clear. Be...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2023 | ME, NO, PO, Uncategorized
Notre Dame’s Acoustics Taken Up with Enoch The polyphonic music of the time When lords and ladies and archbishops ruled, Rose made of notes and lines that as they climb Evaporate. The melodies were cooled, It seems, to nothingness at last, though lower notes Would...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2023 | PO, Uncategorized, WR
In an Ivory Attic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My ivory attic sees me writing lines Alone both day and night. (It isn’t like Young Chatterton’s.’ The flash of light that...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
In His Youth his Mother and Father had to Hire a Top-notch Courtesan to Teach Him about Loving Women since He was Obsessed with Other Stuff Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Long, long ago the ancient...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
Surrounded by the Wasteland, in this Instance Sleep He sleeps alone. We always sleep alone— All humans sleep inside their nightmares, dreams And souls. Our separate spirits sleep and moan Like Caesar feeling Macedon’s regimes Extended far beyond this Roman’s tiny...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
A White Magic Spell If voiceless, herons Would be near non-existence In this morning’s snow. ~ Chiyo (Englished by Phillip Whidden) This morning on the snow of mountain, field And path, no creature stirs, no see-through breeze Moves here among...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2023 | Uncategorized
Haze, or, Instead, Celestial Incense Clouds in the New Jerusalem The smell of new mown grass is not a patch On new mown hayfields. Beautiful perfume Is not just beautiful perfume. No match For Shalimar the newer scents presume That they compete. That N° 5 (Chanel)...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2023 | BR, CO, DO, Uncategorized
Bree and Dawn The nine year old boy, Curving butterflies zig zag Before and behind. ~ Phillip Whidden The only perfect human beings are . . . Our nine-year olds. They’ve learned the sweetness we Had longed...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | CL, JO, Uncategorized
Can Freedom Be a Creed? So…never mind twinned paradox (yet not Just two-word oxymoron). “Freedom ruled,” Is what the English peasant poet taught. This writer did not need his knowledge schooled. John Clare, he should have been called Clear. ...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Defiance of the Elegance of Cosmic Laws Snow almost hovers When wind and breezes die down Above settled white. ~ Phillip Whidden The snow is tempted towards belief its soul Has travelled near eternity when close To settling on a winter’s...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Ricocheting Tableaux The margins of the manuscripts are filled With wonders, painted rhapsodies of flowers And fictive leaves. The vellum sheets are trilled With monks’ imaginings. A Book of Hours Has farming in the Très Riches fields of France And yet our...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
Higher Still and Higher Cold saw and breeze, birch Branch: sawdust rises up on Winter wind to limbs. ~ Phillip Whidden The birch tree is an innocent, its white Increased by splatches. Maybe even black Is innocent the...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2022 | FO, Uncategorized, WI
“Tarry,” is Spring’s Command Yet if we grieve, the spring that blossoms will Not come as wishes quick or slow will leap. The grief of spring will hasten just the spill Of cherry blossoms. Spring will only creep Back when its universe returns again. Our grieving...
by phillipw | Dec 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Pulsating Between the regions of the questions asked And answers given, or not given, lie The deeper thoughts. True seers we have tasked Speak silently, unknown or known. We ply Them like a medium who calls the dead. A shadow has no substance...
by phillipw | Oct 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Arrogance Lurking in an Haute Bourgeois Reptile ‘I am sure he will be a very good poet some day, and he is a very loveable creature’. Siegfried Sassoon writing to Robert Graves as quoted in Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s Siegfried Sassoon, the Making of a War...
by phillipw | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Siegfried and Wilfred Composing Poetry at Craiglockhart Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Margaret Since music always has a blackness set Around it and beyond, its notes are gold Encased in something...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wide–eyed Fur among the Roses A spoiled westerner decided he Would have a restaurant meal delivered to His home, a spicy Indian one with ghee Or maybe just a pizza baked with goo All over it. A speeding senseless van Ate up the street and killed my Bene,...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
We Break the Law Together We break the law together for the sake Of beauty. Beauty turns our sin to love. The love is sacred and is full of ache And space, yes constellations far above Mere moons and decalogues. We break the law Because the body and the soul...
by phillipw | Jul 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dayspring The morning moon is setting. It is still And not. The light is light and fading but Not fading. Dawn is hovering in the chill Of lunar death that is not death. Life is cut From death as if a sliver of a far Lost moon, though cryogenic in...
by phillipw | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ravishing Poetry True poetry is not just beauties, thoughts Or feelings. It is something other, more. It listens more like complicated knots Awaiting Alexanders for its roar To be released. The poem, once unloosed Inside the non-Platonic cavern of...
by phillipw | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Immaculate Conception Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Though nature hovers in our minds and spans The spaces far beyond the Hubble eye, Though poetry, a telescope that scans The universe, can take...
by phillipw | May 14, 2022 | TR, Uncategorized
Untroubled Gaultier Green The May-time trees put on their costumes, green, Green, green, and greenish yellow, style. A few Are copper beech in color. All have sheen Of silk and satin, every one. Their coup D’etat is total like a Paris show Composed by...
by phillipw | May 11, 2022 | CY, GA, Ho, LO, MA, PH, RO, Uncategorized
Someone Special Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who has to be a special someone when He knows that he is loved? Perhaps some sun God loves him. Maybe he knows more than men...
by phillipw | May 1, 2022 | CH, GE, JE, Uncategorized
“The Very Stones Will Cry Out” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Contemplative are agates, geodes too, And also quartz within them. All are filled With meditation colored with the blue Of...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Yet Poetry Yet poetry is after all just lines Of words, yes even when the words are sung By angel voices in a choir that shines. The words are words when coming from the tongue Of Gabriel or Abaddon, not more [Gabriel and Abaddon] Than...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Still Delight — a Sonnet Sequence on the Life, Loves and Lines of RUPERT BROOKE O for the muse of fire . . . Erato Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Rupert Wanted Surrender ...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2022 | BR, HE, RU, SE, Uncategorized
There’s Lucky and There’s Lucky Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A girl with eyes involved with awe, and stroll Of goddesses, and heart that angels knew Who sang with Gabriel, would have a soul To...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2022 | AL, BR, RU, SE, Uncategorized
The War Poet “a rich nature … fighting eagerly towards the truth.” “I have a rendezvous with death At some disputed barricade” ~ Alan Seeger Alan Seeger Not all war poets are the same as Brooke. Not all are like a cabinet display Of Royal Worcester...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2022 | BR, MA, RU, Uncategorized
The Mother of Rupert Brooke Reacted Strongly against Praise of his Physical Beauty Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Indeed, it sometimes seems that every person who ever met Brooke, and certainly...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lord Byron, Rupert Brooke, Denham Russell-Smith, and Virginia Woolf: Skin and Dipping Lord Byron Rupert Brooke Two poets swam a century apart Near Cambridge in a pool. They both loved sex As well as swimming. Byron in his heart And bed made certain...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2022 | BR, RU, Uncategorized
He Couldn’t Even Do a Good Job as the Chorus or a Fake Trumpet Player “the victim of a doom of charm he apparently could not escape” “Brooke’s friend Sybil Pye wrote of his stage presence: In spite of his expressive quality of voice and rare power of...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2022 | BI, BR, PR, RU, Uncategorized
Empty Charms Replaced His Stunning Charm — Two Sutured Sonnets The media in ignorance gets in The way of people’s understanding of The truth. They put a glossy glamor spin On heroes and then shy away from love That falls outside the types that Christians would...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2022 | AM, BI, BR, DE, GA, LO, RU, SE, Uncategorized
Denham Alone Since He Alone was Not Alone– A Foursome of Sonnets Outside and Finally In “A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out all the years.” ~Rupert Brooke Each year he finds a new one he can love. The first (and last) was Denham...
by phillipw | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
But What is Man’s Nature? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The poet’s lofty principle about The buggering of boys’ butts was plain. When physical with guys, his only shout Was, “Follow nature.” ...