by phillipw | May 18, 2026 | RO, Uncategorized
More Like Exoplanets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The planets, Saturn, Jupiter and those Beyond we know about, a bit; but slight Our grasp of them. We know them like the floes Of Arctic ice, but...
by phillipw | May 17, 2026 | FR, MA, PH
Because Their Matter Is Not Consummate “Perfection wrought of love and pain” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson—lover of Arthur Hallam In Memoriam A.H.H., Canto XXXIX • Line 11 “Love one another with a pure heart fervently. See that ye love one another.” “Already the words are...
by phillipw | May 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
All-embracing Bliss Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “this truth the poet sings That sorrow’s crown of sorrow is […lost] things” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson [rewritten from Locksley Hall] The happiness we...
by phillipw | May 15, 2026 | SC
Miss Nills Whose Life Was Too Long Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Her life was neither short nor was it long. She wasted it as fungi scatter spores, In tiny nothings spewed. This meant her song Was...
by phillipw | May 15, 2026 | GR
Profiles in Greedage, the Gulp of America Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem This monster swims America’s wide sea. This spermless whale eats smaller creatures, huge Its intake. It is uncontrolled and free...
