by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | AN, AR, MA
Immortal Anthems of the Holy Ones; They Forget the Cost …… In raw solemnity the angels voice A rush. They sing of all the martyrs who Have suffered darkest pain. Souls rejoice, The souls of seraphs with their wings grown two...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | DO, LO
The Gemini Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible, a corpse is there...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | SE, SU
Prince of Silence “FIREBALL HORROR AT THE PALACE” ~ London Evening Standard, p. 1, February 9, 2016 He didn’t leave a note. He didn’t tell A soul. No whisper even from his death Was given as he left his private hell. The only message was the whooshing...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | RI, VE
Difficult to See Intimations of Immortality We ride past, jostling on the bus, and can’t Make out the wording on the plaque; so close, And yet importance can be missed. We pant To make connection and to get a dose Of greatness or at least of meaning. Paul Reached...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | IS, PR, RA
[This is about one of the guards at the entrance to the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.] Besides, I’m the Foreigner I like him for his gentle, almost sly Smile, nearly shy, but, no, not quite. A smile That’s mostly in the lips but in the eye Is boosted on a face...
