by phillipw | Oct 20, 2019 | CH, ST
The Landscape of Love “all things to rive the heart are here, and all are vain” ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Broken Road, 147 All things to rive the heart are here, and all Are vain. What trees there were have shed their bark And leaves and blooms. It is the...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2019 | AR
Sonnets for Computers ARTificial Intelligence When Alan Turing did an interview About computers way back when, he said That they could do whatever we can do, Most likely… yep, what any human head Can handle. Pressed by that reporter, he Insisted, yes, these...
by phillipw | Oct 19, 2019 | FR, Uncategorized
Loss of Lover A tragedy that might have been imposed On me would be if I were born to speak In French. In that case I would be exposed To meanings and I’d hear how bland and weak Its words are. That would be disaster of The first degree for then I’d have...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2019 | CH, ST
July 19, 2013 Siddārtha found, while meditating on The river, that enlightenment which he Was seeking, searching for. He found the dawn There. Buddha found there his serenity. The river represents that time beyond Eternity, that farthest bound for mind And soul. ...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2019 | HE, ST, WH
“kitty kitty kitty” Was All She Could Say I cannot now recall my mother’s throat In words. For more than twenty years her speech Was dead before she died. A muffling bloat Occurred inside her brain. It was a screech Of blood that silenced her. No...
