by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | DO, GE, HE, NI, RI, TR, WA
What Really Matters Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Heroic happenings in legends bear A factuality more sacred than Plain data. The cutting of Samson’s hair Is consequential to his threatened clan...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | AN, OL, PO, Uncategorized, WA
Poetry is Not the Lever and Fulcrum of Archimedes Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The full-flowering Scottish tradition of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas was defeated when Scotland was defeated.” ~...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | FO, PO, TR
Beowulf as Instruction for Living Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If only life, our stuttered lives, were like Sestinas or like Anglo Saxon lines Of poetry, each unseen ghostly spike Of caesuras that...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | Ho, PO, TR
Blind, not Blind http://ytellioglu.tumblr.com/post/86727114823/world-view-according-to-homer-prior-to-900-bc The poet didn’t matter as a man With quirks and motives of his own. He spoke From guts of culture, from the bones of clan. He spoke in patterns of...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | GA, Ho
Invasion Trying to Trounce Testosterone Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My skeleton hums like an antenna Receiving ultraviolet and black Light rays, and infrared. A glow, henna In sense, helps marrow...
