by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | MO
Love and Sorrow We love and then they leave. They leave us here Alone, abandoned like a husk that hogs Won’t eat, or as a freckled, red-haired, clear- Eyed girl ignores (or shudders at) the bogs That are the eyes of that blind student who Desired her since...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | PA
Unsentimental The frozen tarn, so dark below, so bright Across its surface, can’t be happy, sad Or feel emotion, either black or light. Above it rime-trimmed saplings cannot gad About in frolics, move in mourning or Have feelings harbored in their swaying...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | FO, RE
The Fox Last night the fox we feed in bowls behind Our house came just at twelve. His long, thick tail Was bushier than last time and defined By snow that had been falling in the veil Of winter for white hours. He took out His chunks of food and one...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | RI
That All Things Work Together The Lion Heart left Palestine to save His threatened throne in England, a failure If ever there was one. And then a grave Mischance occurred. He became the jail lure For crippling royal ransom, the sum so vast It beggared England’s...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2020 | DE
A Sheen of Strength A sheen of strength more powerful than gold Shines svelte on outer surfaces of glass, A beauty far more powerful and old Than gilding. Spreading out across the grass This April morning is an hour that brings Its joy to beast and plant...
