by phillipw | May 30, 2026 | MO, TR
Ageless with a Negative Meaning Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem They accidentally write their own demise. They paint and sculpt the doom of blind collapse Of arts’ acceptance in the eyes Of men and women...
by phillipw | May 29, 2026 | MO
Undeserving Heirs in the Great Cemetery Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The heirs of poetry and other arts Do not just wait among the tombstones’ graves With lines carved hard in marble. Men with hearts...
by phillipw | May 29, 2026 | RO, UN
Made to Share Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Song’s sonnet is a lever lifting up The lungs and heart to one you love and not A basic form of poetry’s plain cup, But is a chalice, wine, both spiked and...
by phillipw | May 28, 2026 | LO, UN
You Know the Moment Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A loneliness without a name, intense In length but mild, vanilla in your soul You cannot find with fingers, or in sense Of words its meaning. It is...
by phillipw | May 28, 2026 | LO, RO, TR, ZH
He Filled MOMA with Dignity Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One turned away from everything except True love. He lived it in his person like An orchid grows a bloom; would not accept An R.M.B. or...
by phillipw | May 28, 2026 | AN, BE, LO, PR, RO
A. P. & Zh. Zh. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem From school to school, from same to same, not same In some, he lived with beauty, beauties not The same. In one there was that one not tame, Of...
by phillipw | May 28, 2026 | Ho, TR
At the Center of Concentric Stars, Each of Equal Weight The helplessness of love that moves the earth, The sea and stars is never lonely. Love’s Plight always spreads through Three. Eternal worth Is One, is Theirs, is Three. It is the Dove’s, The Father’s and the...
by phillipw | May 27, 2026 | AN, AR
The Iliad and Mary, the Mother of God Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Five decades (more) ago he bought a pen, A fountain pen when people used such things Before they had their iPads, back when men Wrote...