by phillipw | Aug 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
Freedom and Love When Woman cannot hold her Man, she keeps His essence in her womb, held tight and then Extrudes it as his son. The lover seeps Away as years go by—the way of men. The woman has her son she took as seed From him, though. Years go by...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2023 | IN, MA, MO
Helen as Pathetic 1950s Florence Nightingale A mother nearly stumbles in beside The beds, each boy in misery of flu As if in torture chambers. They have cried Themselves to whimpering sleep like kittens mew When dying. Husband also mashed down, slammed In fever,...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2023 | AN, EG, EY
Caged Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Egyptian royalty wore strict strokes round Each eye—in life and death—for force. This fence In life was formed of grace. The kohl that crowned The...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2023 | Uncategorized
Fragments of a Golden Glimpse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Perhaps light glints (that run the eyelid’s rim Of midnight), blue in arc above the stare (Black circle perfect as a priestly hymn) Mean...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2023 | AK, AN, SO
A Glowing Untruth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Christians and the Jews and Muslims, not To mention Hindus, Buddhists and the . . . rest, Have failed to tell us in exactly what Sweet...
