by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | RE
Seventy Times Seven We never do forgive the dreamers. They Are forced to drink the hemlock. Logic leads Them to the high conclusions. Yes, we pray To some of them because they planted seeds In minds that generations cannot root Out. Still we crucify such...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | BE, BO, CE, CH
People are Starving in South Sudan (This poem has many illustrations. Keep going till you have read the rhyming couplet.) “A macaroon! A macaroon! “I cannot live without a macaroon!” ~ Pierrot, Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay “We live in an...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | MA, RE
Loving Freely If I misunderstand you, and if you Don’t understand me, then we are in love. At least that seems the only way for true Love’s husbandry in marriage. High above Mere passion is the need for mystery. A man whose partner has him figured out...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | FR, LO
Always and Forever in Love I’ve been in love as long as I have known About such stuff: I’ve been in love with me. I’ve always sat on true romance’s throne Inside my heart. It’s true that I’ve been free Since teenage years to fall in love you, For instance, or with...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | DI, PI, ST
Annie Dillard Will Be 72 Tomorrow For Chuck This Sunday Annie Dillard, that clear mind And mystic, will be twelve and three score years. She saw, she saw, and wrote about when blind Eyes saw as if the music of the spheres Became as visible to them as we See blue and...
