by phillipw | Jul 31, 2024 | MO
It’s a Mad, Mad, Sad, Bad World Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some artists are so desperate for the new That they create mere nonsense, not the art We want. They wield farce art for just the few...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2024 | LO, MO, PH
Seven Hearts Like Moon Rises Inside Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A clutch of hearts he held inside his chest Beside the fleshy one. The first in youth Was quite beyond his explanation—best Forget...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2024 | AB, CO, LU, ME
Coral Griefs “The Sea on Fire”: Jean Barraqué Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If mermaids basked on beaches, then their hair Would be of swaying sea grass, whether blonde Or red, and combed with coral...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2024 | HI, NA
“That Has Such Creatures In It” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A moon around the planet Saturn peers At earth and hopes that it is crystal. Rock Rings block far surveys. More like long lens tears...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2024 | OD, QU
Possibilities as Exotic as Zanzibar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem These things I might have been: streaked tourmaline Stone baked and crushed in lava, or stringed pearls So ancient that they...
