by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | PO, PR
Earliest Poetry The sunlight, bright as gods could ever hope To be, fell down on isthmus, valley, sea, On life and death, and limestone mountain slope Before mere humans. Greece, as it would be, Was meant for poetry but did not know It. Men and women and their...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | MA
The Wedding of Heaven and Hell: Two Types of Matrimony Dedicated to Elizabeth Taylor and Melania Trump I don’t believe in marriage. It’s rotten From start to finish like a match that’s thrown By bribery. It’s not cricket. Ill-gotten Agreements made for fiscal gain are...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | GO
Lollygagging on Olympus The gods are idle all day long like pale Silk hanging from a sultan’s wrist while gone On holiday and drowsing with a veil Around his satin bed. Supine they yawn By banquet tables weighted down with wine, Ambrosia and grapes. They laze about On...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | AB
Providence In literature the darkest deeds of men Required the sanction of the gods. God called The patriarch to kill his son, so then He took him to the altar, not appalled The least bit. David was ordained to kill The giant, pulp his brain and cut his head...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | DI, GO
Lost God “like the gods whose powers fade as they are carted off from their landscapes and dialects and universalized” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 13 When God becomes too universal, he Is lost. He fades, Narcissus on a pool Too broad. A fuzziness...
