by phillipw | Nov 22, 2021 | FU, SE
Large Luxuries like a King Cobra in His White Sheets Not yachts or mansions in the Highlands. No. Real luxuries rise best in drowse of dreams Or waking dreams. We move our hands down low To rest them on the manliness. It teams With utterness but wakes...
by phillipw | Nov 22, 2021 | AN, FR, MA, PR
Straight Road Willows Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The friend has gone along the long straight road With willows all along on left and right. Their greenness does not...
by phillipw | Nov 21, 2021 | TE
The Caressing Professor One teacher, sweeter than the rest, was sweet Unlike buzzed honey in the scriptures he Upheld. His classroom tricks were like a suite Of tools abjured by other teachers. He could see His way around a stupid answer given by A...
by phillipw | Nov 21, 2021 | AN, MY
Absent Orange and Blue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern readers do not even...
by phillipw | Nov 20, 2021 | CH, FR, GO, TH
Free Will Jehovah was the first to think of Free Will. Maybe He pulled back from thinking then. This one divinity went on a spree Of wide creation, making light and men, A trillion galaxies and globes, with no More cogitation. Clearly he was...
