by phillipw | Jul 24, 2019 | MU, RE
………..Religion in its Place “Music continuing the beauty of poetry without its idea” ~ Maurice Rollinat You know how music pieces for a choir Or smaller sets of human voice will end With instrumental music, with no fire Of words aflame...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2019 | DA
Annie Darwin and Arthur Hallam One Charles Darwin doubted God because The daughter of the scientist had died. Or maybe it was more than that. The claws Of scarlet snarling nature would have dyed Pure certainty about a loving force Behind the curtains of the...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2019 | MA, MU
Pious, Pious, Pious Papyri If you were set the challenge, “Think about The most surreal conflation of the facts From distant times,” I wager (with no doubt That I would win the bet) that certain acts In ancient Egypt would be well beyond Your best (or worst)...
by phillipw | Jul 22, 2019 | HI
The Legends and the Gods, the Victors and Obliterations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-2khcTHIgs The flow of cosmic history through this mote We call the world has always been a rush, Not slow like muddy streams but more a bloat Of rivers gorged with spate of...
by phillipw | Jul 14, 2019 | BE
Virgins in Self-sacrificial Auto da Fé “His ‘magic’ does not take account of what cannot be known.”* His beauty does not care Who worships it with fragrantly white-hot Devotion at a burning altar where Our ribs are offered up as incense to The...