by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Sought You Thus Afar? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Could twelve-streets Titusville, that little town Grow groves of sonnets and of poetry? Each larger, richer city wore a crown, Those places...
by phillipw | Oct 27, 2025 | AD, BR, CH, CR
“One world at a time” ~ Henry David Thoreau Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Crown of thorns with breathing diamonds Too many of the world’s religions, faiths, Philosophies (like Buddha’s) spurn square...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Your Voice Your voice is joy to me. Your voice is more Than joy. Your voice is more than ecstasy. Your voice is more than plainsong. Let it pour Through me as arias, as if the sea Of love itself gushed glaringly in chords, And notes, and more than melodies, in...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gate to Lucifer’s Paradise Lighting one candle With another man’s candle˸ An evening in spring. ~ Buson Instead of all those candles at the Gate’s Love Feast, white wax, flamed wicks among the fruit, And challah bread implying mystic states (Agape love), I spied a...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Greedy Black Hole Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” ~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene 1 She often whined to ears beside...
