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...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | BR, DO, FL, IV, LO, PH, RO, SI, SU, TI, TO, Uncategorized, WE, WO
Lone Ranger Sunshine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some buttered beams of light assured him that His world was not just treacly tombstone jewels. The shafts were shining from a cowboy hat Of boyhood...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
