by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | PE
Waiting to be Perfect Inside a chrysalis without a dream Of faith, it waits. A soft and unformed thing It swells internally. Its aims esteem Unconsciously the perfect, wing and wing, And delicate antennae, waiting like The bud in April, or it’s like a hate Maturing in...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | EN, SE
Fade We try to make our mark and leave a scar Or stain the color of a would-be ghost. We leave a remnant like a moon or a star In galaxies spluttered, their only boast Smooth blackness stretched. We are the light of moons Forgotten, or of stars...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | AN, GR
Also Sprach Nietzsche “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern readers do not even begin to understand them ‘in a sufficiently “Greek” manner’. If we understood them in Greek, ‘we should...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | SA
The Most Secret Poetry “Haydn whose decidedly un-musical wife apparently used his manuscripts as hair curlers” Try not to think of all the poems lost In time. Eternity must hold them in Some hidden and immortal bank, not tossed Away completely. Yet for us the twin Of...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2020 | AN, PO
Before the Internet in the Ancient World “Hellenistic culture was of necessity a culture of the book . . . : the age of the reader had arrived, and a poet was often a man speaking to a man, not to men.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 13...
