by phillipw | Jul 25, 2021 | CH, DE
Eyes and Hands Not Trying to Understand Depths The crows look down at Asian yellow hands At work with seedlings in the mud. The rice Is planted by the stooping peasant bands, Both birds and farmers with their eyeballs nice In looking, brown and black, at what they...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2021 | GE, MA
The Beekeeper Ponders the Exceptional Hexagon Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Saturn’s North Pole cloud formation The heavy hexagons of rock that shaped In heated rock, the lava as it cooled...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2021 | WH, WO
An Object Lesson for the Brevard County Church Elder Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He works beneath relentlessness of sun And sweat of air above him and around. It’s true that later clouds will form...
by phillipw | Jul 23, 2021 | DE
Found: Regal Treasures around a Vacuum “Elaborate ship burials filled with treasures were rare in Anglo-Saxon England, particularly toward the latter end of the early medieval period. The wealth of grave goods found at Sutton Hoo—as well as the positioning of the...
by phillipw | Jul 23, 2021 | GR, PO
“Poetry is idealized grammar” ~ Oscar Wilde An epigram is not required to be Grammatically as logical as laws Of science. If the bon mot holds the key To paradox, an ideal plants the cause Of poetry in fields of richer loam Although the weeds of words may interfere...