by phillipw | Mar 13, 2026 | AS, MU, ST
The One Imperial Realm The realm of music is where emperor kings Can meet within a tent of cloth of gold And where one billion Stradivari strings The 5 Most Expensive Violins in the World of 2026 Would play if they were bought and then enrolled In heavens where...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2026 | BE, DE, UG
Virginia Oldoini Rapallini, Countess of Castiglione Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A room without a single mirror or Reflective surface held the countess firm Within her life but not forever, for...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2026 | AB, BA, FU, JO, Uncategorized
Triumphant Trance Music Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Batons of beauty and its undertow Bring up the signature of melodies And harmonies that fugal Bach would grow If he were not entombed and he could...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2026 | GA
Isabella Stewart Gardner on her Knees Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We tire of life, its many tricky lures, And try to leave them for some howling hounds To follow. Lures like these are not the cures...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2026 | MU
Composed Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We memorize the moment that we first Took in that music is of bits of sounds Each felt apart, but, all to make the burst Of beauty breaking through their separate...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2026 | DE, FA
Carnegie Hall of Frozen Ebony Music Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We are still masters of our fate. ~ Winston S. Churchill Our lives meander, not knowing what they Might hear. This situation is not...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2026 | MO, RO, TO
Blinded Montesquiou The darkness on the tomb of Montesquiou And next to it, abated by the sky Of clouds of white and by the dome of blue, Is emphasized with dirt and algae by It and upon it. Dirtiness is shrill Upon the grave . . . and not to mention weeds Would be...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2026 | AM, BL, SE, Uncategorized
Azure is Both Silence and Transparent Whisper Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One blue, ambivalence of color, rhymes With more. The holiest of blues is like A crushed velour, like crushed and ancient...
