by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | AL, CA, LE, SU, TH
Single-mindedness “Five times as warm, and five times as cold, just as I am five times as rich as you are, and five times as clever.” ~ The Red Queen The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water. Basho, Translated by R.H. Blyth There’s nothing that...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | SO
Heating for the Poor Deplorables Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouses as from rich man’s abode.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden That university...
by phillipw | Nov 4, 2025 | RH, SC
Line from Woodnotes I Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos The weakness of “departed lover” in The line is maybe only slightly weak, Not weak enough to be condemned as sin, But weak is weak. When...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | NO, PA
Nonko, a Seventeenth-century Ceramicist Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The black bat makes its sounds beyond my ears, A pitch too high for human nerves to hear, But, is there, like ultraviolet tears From...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AB, LU, YA
Paris, not Berlin, is Called the City of Lights Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The silence that you forced upon me shows Me that I do not need you as my wife Or spouse, whatever. Truth about that grows...
