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The Artistic View

The Artistic View Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We  work below the clouds but not apart From them.  We all are far too much aligned Like rows in planting.  We and clouds both start And finish...

Pitiless Rows of Wheat Around the World

Pitiless Rows of Wheat Around the World Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The clouds aloof they Toil on in paddies under The Southern Mountains. ~ Shiki, Englished and reconceived by Phillip Whidden The...

Thunder

Thunder Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tremors on a tropic shoreline shake Exotic flowers, (farther in the land Of jungle) on the island.  Petals quake In sensitivity.  Along the strand By ocean...

The Consummate Flower Girl

The Consummate Flower Girl Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He wishes for a voice as frail as pink In fading peonies except in bed While in her, wants her gestures like a mink Glove rubbing him until a...

If Only

If Only Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If only girls were more like flowers, their hands Like petals gesturing in breeze-blown loves Of innocence that burn like harmless brands, Or dressed in...