by phillipw | May 14, 2022 | TR, Uncategorized
Untroubled Gaultier Green The May-time trees put on their costumes, green, Green, green, and greenish yellow, style. A few Are copper beech in color. All have sheen Of silk and satin, every one. Their coup D’etat is total like a Paris show Composed by...
by phillipw | May 11, 2022 | CY, GA, Ho, LO, MA, PH, RO, Uncategorized
Someone Special Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who has to be a special someone when He knows that he is loved? Perhaps some sun God loves him. Maybe he knows more than men...
by phillipw | May 10, 2022 | AR, ED, MI, ST
Love is Empty, Friendship Dead Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Pierrot, a macaroon! I cannot live without a macaroon!” The puppets, dressed in satin, purply, ruffs, And skirts of apple green, cerise...
by phillipw | May 9, 2022 | CH, HA, JA, PO
Burden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem All the cherry blooms I saw today have become A pink load on me. ~ Sobaku [freely and unfreely paraphrased by Whidden] Sobaku’s postscript to his painitng...
by phillipw | May 6, 2022 | Ta
Laotse and Chuangtse All nature palpitates with life, more true When life has died. Philosophy might try To be as true. Religions have their pew In nature’s temples, roofs a higher sky In thought and feeling. Mind’s mysticisms Fail, though, when man’s...
