by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | LO
Impatient Reverie Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I do not need to be an orchard or Become a desperate bee. I do not need To turn into a waterfall to pour Myself down through a valley and be freed...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | AD, DE, Ta
Beautiful Beyond Your Lips Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem An apple high above, up on a limb Where dawn can see it earlier than you Will ever know, awaits. The tree may brim With other fruit but still...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | DE, LO, MU
Music is Not Composed of Ideals Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem An aria forever means what you Will be. A Donizetti sea of notes, Or Wagner in a score (Luzern-like blue), A song that Mendelssohn...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | ET, FR, LA, NI
Nietzsche Negation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Steel repetition trumps. Unnerved before Men’s ecstasy, rosaries cannot deny The urge for semen, chanting still the whore. Adultery invades the...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | DI, EM, HU, PO
A Buzzing Probe in Deep-throat Nectar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Early poetry finds its stories and then finds ways of remembering them.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 8 “Helen Hunt Jackson...
