by phillipw | Sep 30, 2026 | Sonnet
The Smoke Wisps Away Drunkenly Dry Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Grief’s path is dizziness, a lightning bolt Of zlowness, zigzag zapped at heart and brain. You’re left as if you’ve met a lightning jolt...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2026 | CH, FR, GR, LO, MA, ST
Incommunicado Grief For Charles Randall Stanfield The quick and the dead I wrote you sonnets. You were dead, though, then. I sat in Keats’s garden while I read Them into Hampstead wind. Among all men You were the only. In my heart and head Molasses had been...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2026 | AL, BA, GA, PE, SH
Golden Guys “sneer of cold command” Young Alexander conquers most of known Harsh kingdoms, harshly. Now we ask, “So what?” So what if his brutality has grown A realm that Ozymandias could not Have dreamed of? Each one was a clot of vile And vicious violence of...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2026 | FR, LO, MA
An Arsenal of Heavy Metal Miracles Inside the Atria and Ventricles “O friends, there is no friend.” ~ Diogenes Laertius A bombshell blasting made of misery, Exploding misery is what he feels. The bomb that he experienced falls free Of love, of friendship. Mostly men...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2026 | MA, RH
“Feminine” Rhymes The Cock is crowing, The stream is flowing, The small birds twitter, The lake doth glitter, The green field sleeps in the sun. ~ William Wordsworth If even Wordsworth writes in kiddie rhyme And no one tells him, “Grow up, now!” . . . If...
