by phillipw | Mar 6, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, MA
Blond and Black: Victor in the Rare Books and Music Reading Room That blond one now has risen in my mind. The sight that I remember most is blond, Blond curls, a curving beauty that might blind Unwary men, a loveliness beyond The fatal sight of Gorgon snakes. His...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | DO, TR
Don’t Bother to Notice the SCROTUS SCROTUS = So Called Ruler Of The United States As ugly as an old gray macho bitch With pitiable comb over can be, The Don has run himself into a hitch Or two in less than four weeks on his spree. His Wild West shoot ’em up in the...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | IN, MA, MU
Progressive Mathematics as Stanzas When poetry was mathematics back In distant, ancient India, the lines Were full of meanings that our poems lack Today. With sinuousity of vines Instead of straight or angled equals marks And long equations on the smoothed out...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | DO, TR
The Trees of Knowledge of Evil and Evil By USDA photo by Scott Bauer – United States Department of Agriculture, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44873...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2020 | DR
Depths of Everlasting Springs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem [This sonnet was written on St. Valentine’s Day, 2017, and finished the next day.] Love, life, and death—these seem the deepest...