by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GA, HE, JE, SE
Wife Beating: Gore and Poetry The Greeks came up with a quite a novel cause For beating wives. The men of Thrace attacked Their wives because they whacked a poet. Claws (Well, jealous fingernails) tore up and hacked To death the world’s greatest singer. They Were...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | HE
The Fighter Calls His Thing His Beast in the First Conquering Scene A hero in the series pissed, turned just Enough to keep the camera from a view Of hanging meat. An audience nonplussed By warrior Thing would not want him to screw In careful focus either, so, when...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | EN, PL, VA
Plato was Wrong The world we know is not those shadows. We Are shadows, less than shadows, faded by A darkness. Shadows laid on shadows, free Of any weight or substance, we are shy Of meaning since we die, and since the stars And everything will vanish. ...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GO, PA, TR
Only Paradox is Universally True The cosmos touches me and I know love And also it is more the other way Around. The highest heaven far above And God’s foundations join as one. A May Of charity expresses one long truth That matters. When that spring explodes inside...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GU
Constitutional Slaughter: Connecticut, Nevada, Florida, Texas, Texas Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Stronger than lover’s love is lover’s hate.” ~ Medea, Euripides The women don’t do this,...
