by phillipw | Jul 11, 2020 | AM, BI, LO, SE
Love as Sung by Alexis “He is not foolish, nor yet is he wise; But he is made up of all kinds of quality, And underneath one form bears many natures.” From the Phaedrus of Alexis, In Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae Alexis steps away most...
by phillipw | Jul 10, 2020 | AP, BI, LO, TR, UR, VE
Plato’s Ideal For Denise/Josh and Rachel/Robert Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem [Uranus, the god of the heavens, is both father and mother to the goddess Aphrodite in Plato’s Symposium.] The...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2020 | AN
The Primitive Polyphemus before the Strangers’ Attack But then again we do not always need The total poem. Au contraire. We guess The substance missing. Hurt lines also bleed. The rips and blots allow us to say yes To meanings we imagine. Deletions Free up the mind...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2020 | AN
Lopped and Crippled Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem So little full-limbed poetry survives The ancient Greeks, we’re left to deal with things Grammarians have saved for us—and lives Of poets put on...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2020 | HE, JO, OR, PL, TH
Invisible Ivory Music Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. ~ John Keats Herus Pamphilius claimed that Orpheus’s drifting soul, destined to be incarnated anew in some other physical form after he had died, elected to be born a swan so that he...
