by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | JO, KE, KI
March 1819 John strolls alone along spring’s English streets. He sees a kitten being tortured by A boy, a butcher’s boy, and fights and beats Him, thrashes him. Just over five feet high, John intervenes when others might have left The beef-slab bully to...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | HE
Tried by Fire “I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its Beauty.” ~ John Keats A truth that forms outside pure beauty fails. No matter who propounds a thought, or what Cathedra it...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | FE, LE
[When this sonnet was written, Patrick Leigh Fermor’s trilogy of books about his walk from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (which he refused to call Istanbul) had still not been finished. Indeed, it never was. The third volume was called appropriately The...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | RO
The Moon and Venus Our moon, a giant sphere of rock, shines scarred And pocked against the darkness all around Its front. The craters are sickness and marred Complexion. Boulders as pimples abound. The rest is dust. The planet Venus shines, A beacon from...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | PR
Pro Procrastination Name anything delectable as pro… Crastination. Nope, I thought you couldn’t, Especially when spiced with bravado Because of future dangers. You wouldn’t Enjoy it half so much if there weren’t risk Of getting punished for it later. Your...
