by phillipw | Apr 28, 2020 | DR, HI
Lingering Puzzles .. We puzzle out the meaning of meshed lines. We tease out riddles, reading like a sleuth. The Druids hid by keeping sacred signs Unwritten in a code that held their truth Inviolate. The spoken-only breath Of teachings, once the voices that...
by phillipw | Apr 28, 2020 | GO, LO
Love Does not Forget, Shimmering Inside from Everlasting to Everlasting “Paul Cartledge reminds us that ‘the ancient Greek word for “truth” meant literally “not forgetting”.’” Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 22 A truth cannot be lost while...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | LO, RO
A Tropical Waterspout at the Edge of a Lagoon Somehow romance as whirlwind is true, Too true, like comas are too much like death. A little twister is too like a coup In some small principality whose breath Is warm and humid, packed with yellows, reds, And oranges in...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | AE, BE, ES
Distortions of the Lovely in Ancient Greece The beautiful in ancient times could see Themselves less perfectly than we can view Ourselves. A pond might give a good degree Of truth in its reflection, even blue Of eye and undistorted skin and shape, But other mirrors...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | AN, IN, PR
Disc World: Soapstone Discs Found Thousands of Years Later in a Dried Up Watercourse Millennia ago, before CDs And DVDs, artistic discs were made In India with carved motifs to please Their owners. Birds were set into a braid With animals around the edges. ...
