by phillipw | Jul 23, 2025 | AE, BA, ES
Murder Will Out “goodness, like murder, will out” ~ R. H. Blyth Nerds try to kill normality like those Who kill off music, art and poetry. The twelve-tone tunes (?) attempt to set a pose Of music, but our normal ears still see Straight through the scam. In...
by phillipw | Jul 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Pathetic Fallacy and Other Figures of Speech At last with incense All around his temple face He looks like a man. ~ Kenkabō [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Pathetic fallacy is needed for...
by phillipw | Jul 23, 2025 | AG, AT, RE
An Unnecessary Vacuum Quite apart from faiths, We see the cherry blossoms And blooms on plum trees. ~ Nanpoku [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | FR, NI, PH, PL
A Deaf Man Eavesdropping ~ a phrase from R. H. Blyth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Since Plato was a deaf man eavesdropping, We do not have to pay attention to That man. Philosophy went out shopping...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Not Even for Cleopatra Once youth has fled the skin, the beauty will Be like the dryness and the sand of dunes. The breasts will sag like rotting fruit and spill Towards death, or worse, like twelve-tone music tunes Abandoned by the likes of Mendelssohn. The...
