by phillipw | Apr 25, 2021 | LO
Spontaneous Combustion .Modern poetry odern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I mastered it. It mastered me, became The fire, and it became the whole of me. A moment just before was calm, but flame Exploded. You were...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2021 | CH, LO, RO, ST
What the Pharaohs Commanded in Looking Glasses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He lives inside the past. Back then he filled A tiny room, but now it glows. The walls Are echoed glass. My spinal...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2021 | AN, BA, BE, BO, CH, FI, MI
Michael Barham Antiques at the Top of the Portobello Road The shops are multi-coloured on their fronts, The pink ones and the gold ones and the grey (Lead blue). Yet then a true blue one confronts Your vision. [Other shoppers wander. They Don’t have a clue. ...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2021 | FU, IN, LO, SE, UT
Predicted before Midnight We make the world anew at night in bed. I make it in you and you take it in You deeply, and you take it deeper, spread Yourself to take it deeper than the sin That Eve and Adam shared. You take it’s deep And turn it into newness there...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2021 | MA
The Constituents of Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The man is made of mud and semen, thought Of course, and other juice, testosterone And throbbing blood. A suited astronaut Or physicist is...