by phillipw | Sep 6, 2019 | PH
The Guys Who Hated Poetry in School In 28 cramped pages dark matters Of physics are reduced to theories With names that almost no one knows, splatters Of equations and answers to queries That none of us had asked. The eye trembles While traveling at the speed of...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2019 | RO
The Closed Eyes Have It The death of love numbs like paralysis Or like a tetanus infection in A purple vein, a poison without hiss, A serpent trying punctures barring sin. This end has lain, lurked voiceless from the start Coiled round an evergreen, behind a rock,...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2019 | AR
Plato and the Ideal in A.I. When sexless A.I. brains are in control, There won’t be lust for women or for men But only Love like God’s agape role Of loving purely, rather like a Zen Philosophy that takes us far from pain And pleasure. This Nirvana of...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2019 | AE, AN, BE, ES, GE, GR
Up Close and Pulchritude Hercules Musei Capitolini, Wikipedia The way we view ourselves as humans lies In how we see our past. Imagine then An ancient statue of a man. His eyes Are white, white,...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2019 | SE
Liquid Resistance Enfolding skin that covers muscles, flesh, Makes paradox of softness, firmness in My arms, themselves a melting strength. We mesh Where holiness combines with soul of sin Or with an element that cannot stain, That cannot be improved. We call it...