by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | LO
Speechless Who cares about the silent moon? The moon Is always mute. She sends her messages With light alone. She swims, a songless loon, Producing soundless, runeless presages Of things we wish to hear but cannot dream Without the inspiration of the...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | FR
Friendship, Higher “the sun was rising now in fellowship with the stars that had escorted it” …………………Dante, Inferno, Canto I, lines 38-39 It sounds like pure companionship outside The entry...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | HE
Heart Wounds The lizard leaves its tail trapped in the cat’s Teeth, flopping against a puzzled whisker. The green chameleon starts a new length. That’s That. The starfish posture is much brisker: It can build back even one whole star flare. If...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | GE
Big Boy 成吉思汗 We don’t consider Genghis Khan, except In Ulaanbaatar. Mongols carved his form In limestone on a hillside. They have swept Aside his murders( from his raging storm Across the continent). Instead they make A sentimental image of...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | CO, PO
England Travels to the Equator ….. The oak tree, royal in another land Where roses thrive and make the air go still With orange, pink and purple scents, is spanned By English summer breezes, those that spill Across the squirrel’s nest and garden lawns And take...
