by phillipw | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bitter Brown Sugar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you could twirl his heart, you would, or spin It like a moon knocked out of orbit, wound It in the process like an angel’s sin Beside the throne of...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
With Hair as Curly as a Fugue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Singing is a lover’s thing.” ~ Saint Augustine A face more beautiful than choiring songs, More beautiful than singing in the choir, A...
by phillipw | Oct 17, 2025 | CA, FU, HA, JO, RE, SA
Trip Ups Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A ratatouille made of shadows seen Through God’s kaleidoscope is what the faiths Present to us. Religions, each a different scene Of glitters, promise...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | AB, HE, LE, LI, RO
Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden By a collapsed house A pear tree blooming. Here a Battle was fought. ~ Shiki At Gettysburg we walked across the fields. Not far away from there a pear tree bloomed. In Arlington Lee’s mansion has no...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized
Night in a D.C. Suburb and Pressed Against a Car by a Drug Addict Flowers of rapeseed fields… No whale approaches. Darkness Spreads over the sea. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it...
