by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | PE, TR, VE
Colors Truer than Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Not veiled and partly veiled, completely veiled, The peonies are like a perfect prayer, Perhaps one to the Trinity. Exhaled In reverence the...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | PE, TR
God, the Father, is Different from his Son and the Holy Ghost Two peonies, a couple, side by side, One larger, lighter (that’s except its heart), The other made of heartbreak in its wide And darker oval, beauty like a dart To harm us, both are perfect in their...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | EA, MO
Void What gives the Easter Island statues worth? Their meaning is beyond us. Since the faith That raised them died, is it their height, or girth, Or weight, or eeriness? Each stony wraith Of that religion is so foreign to Us now that it is less...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | HI, KI
Art Critics Speak As if we might be able to forget What Freud has foisted on us, artist Hirst Thrusts serpents and his monsters full of threat Up front and most are thick with penis thirst As anything that mental patients might Purvey. The female...