by phillipw | Nov 27, 2025 | PR, TR
Profiles in Pusillanimity “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” ~ Emerson, “Self-reliance” It used to be that we had Senators And Congressmen and women. Now that’s changed. In decent times we had progenitors Who gave us heroes. Now we are...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | FA, RE, TR
Over the Rainbow “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living,...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | NI, SO
Supreme Socrates and Nay-saying Nietzsche Considered in the Context of the Eternal Recurrence Nietzsche in ancient Greek straitjacket as Socrates with hemlock; image produced by Grok AI at the direction of the poet If Socrates had had a watch, he would Have wound it...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Harlequin Ruse Honeys Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spun sugar on a five-star chef’s dessert Looks like romances sold at checkout tills In Walmart, women wanting needed spurt Of unattainables, not...
by phillipw | Nov 25, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
48 53 58 63…Februaries Schisms as Chasms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The five-year gap between the times that you And I were born, our ages (ever spread) Will never be erased until the skew Of death...
