by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not Even for Cleopatra Once youth has fled the skin, the beauty will Be like the dryness and the sand of dunes. The breasts will sag like rotting fruit and spill Towards death, or worse, like twelve-tone music tunes Abandoned by the likes of Mendelssohn. The...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | CL, JO, OL
Not Even for Cleopatra Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Once youth has fled the skin, the beauty will Be like the dryness and the sand of dunes. The breasts will sag like rotting fruit and spill...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | JO, MO, OA
A Temporary Fuck Up Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A novelist called Oates despises those Who rhyme their poetry. The High Brows now Pretend that people, Jills and Joes, Who love a poem that...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | CH, HE, RI, Uncategorized, VE, WA
Rimbaud and Verlaine Wrote a Sonnet Praising the Male Asshole, Each Writing Every Other Line Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.” ~ Shakespeare writing as a...
by phillipw | Jul 20, 2025 | AE, ES, RO
To Theorize or Not to Theorize about Yesthetics Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Most Joes and Judies walk through days and nights Without one thought of artistry. And why Not? Poets and the artists...
