by phillipw | May 11, 2026 | CU, PA, SK
The Cuckoo and the Lark “Sing aloud love’s lark!” ~ Untraditional The cuckoo and the skylark do not form A cross in flight. The lark flies up and high. Its life is full of song and loving, warm. The cuckoo doesn’t sing and it is sly. Its flight is horizontal or,...
by phillipw | May 11, 2026 | PI, PY
Inchoate Union Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Escaping the symmetrical is not the point. Escaping random beauty in a line Of poetry is true. The gods anoint A perfect union, earthly and divine, Saints...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | PR, RE
The Lipless Mask Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Unspoken and unspeakable it comes, The answer, though no question has been asked. The deepest, pre-dawn half-light answer thrums Unspeakably. Religions...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AP, CA, Uncategorized, WH, WO
Quivering Like Cassandra but Between “the salt-estranging sea” and Brine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He did not know it as a boy or teen, Not even in his cosmos known as dreams. He did not know that...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | AB, YA
Lost in Today Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “forever—never. They are the two saddest words in the English tongue.” ~ J. M. Barrie, Dear Brutus “What doth Joy most borrow” George Eliot, Daniel Deronda...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | CH, RO, ST
Charles Randall Stanfield in a Friday Evening, Sacred Singing’s Sabbath Service Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The kindliest symptom, yet the most alarming crisis in the ticklish state of youth” ~...
by phillipw | May 8, 2026 | NI, PS
Above and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Above the depths of mind a bridge floats, dreams. Though insubstantial dreams float brighter than The Milky Way, more stretched out than dark streams Of...
by phillipw | May 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Au$trian Jewe$$ Addre$$e$ Her Tubby Hubby in her Heap of a $hop on Main $treet in Titu$ville in the 1960$ Far Away from Auc$hwitz But Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The unexamined lifele$$ne$$ i$...
