by phillipw | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bricked Up But Not for Heaven or Nirvana Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Smash up your two-way mirror and become An anchoress but in a place where no Religious rites occur. Become a numb And earless one...
by phillipw | Nov 10, 2025 | SY, Uncategorized
Delicate Neon ⁷ He never saw gray eyes though they are sung In praise. Telemachus’ and wisdom’s eyes, Athena’s, Homer chanted from his tongue Yet reverenced. Ancient lines, still, alchemize The silver grays, presenting them as facts Of...
by phillipw | Nov 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
Fly? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem No, you will never know the thousand hints That he would send you, wrong and silent type That he insists on being. Sonnet glints Among his messaging? Well, no. The...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Parthenon by Ictinus, Callicrates and Phidias Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “With the soul’s awakening, direction, too, first reaches living expression,–Classical expression in steady...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | CH
Directions to Nowhere The “Chinese in free, hither and thither wandering that nevertheless goes to the goal; Egyptian in resolute march down the path once entered.” ~ Oswald Spengler, “Symbolism and Space,” IV The Chinese being Oriental flop About in mists’...
