by phillipw | Feb 17, 2021 | HE, JO, SN, TH, WH
“A universe of sky and snow!” Philosophy can’t clip an angel’s wings. At most it might pluck out one pinion white As purity in Jesus. Thoreau sings, Denies that he and God were in a fight— I didn’t know we’d ever quarrelled— speaks The dying man. He loved a...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2021 | AE, BE, CL, ES, RO
But Perhaps Keats Understood It at His Best Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The Pure Present which so often aroused Goethe’s admiration in every product of the classical life and in sculpture...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2021 | LO, SE, UN
Deep Love You need some sort of bathysphere to keep Harm walled from overwhelming emotion. You need some sort of diving bell in deep, Steep love to save from harm of devotion. There’s gloom in fathoms and in dooming love. In muddy river water as the...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2021 | LO, RO, UN
Evening Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Your life is time. This evening floats past time And lingers in eternity. The light Of dusk means more. It borders the sublime Because...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2021 | EV, MO
Grave Beyond the light the morning star provides Are depths and distances behind, around, And promising. They are eternal tides, Eternal only as such light is bound By borderlands of physics. Morning star Illumination reaches from the dawn Of...
