by phillipw | Jul 15, 2021 | BO, FI, PO
A Doll Manufactured before Sex Perhaps: Prelapsarian Porcelain Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The doll, its face, and limbs, hold dignity As sweet as childhood when imagined by A sentimental mind, a...
by phillipw | Jul 14, 2021 | BU, CH, SA
Never Mind Nirvana An aching earthquake chasm has more weight Than filled perfection ever gains. The death Of Christ impaled is useful to berate The evils in the world much more than breath Of Buddha, mystic in his musings, thought Beneath a Bodhi tree, his...
by phillipw | Jul 14, 2021 | DA, FA, LO, PA
Penumbra around the Male Heart Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The father picks it up, the doll, and grins. He thinks of her, his daughter. She will love It, he decides. His happy moment spins Around...
by phillipw | Jul 14, 2021 | DE, MO, PA, PH, SA, WH, WO
Grave Offering Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He breaks the burst of blossoms off the tree, The spray of life in blooms, and hauls it to The back part of the car. Cemetery Rows wait. He...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2021 | AE, BE, CH, GO, JE
Abandonment’s Magnificat A beauty gone is never gone. It goes Down deep in memory. It does not turn To boredom and it never turns to prose. True beauty is like branding irons that burn The hips because of him or her but more Like him because of what he did between...
