by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | KA, Uncategorized
The Japanese Spirit (Not Saki) The Japanese move porcelain-sweet mugs And cups and kettles, decorated, fine As April cherry blossoms, then as thugs Men dive bomb as imperially divine Themselves to slaughter guys on metal ships, The roasting of the flesh, plunged...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | AH
Less Than a Salt East China Sea Between Them Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Indians have a sentiment like love Inside their marrow, marrow of mauve silk, Too like a maharani, lacking shove Of...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | AN, JA
Esthetic as Emetic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In general the tasteless in the land (And all lands) much prefer the sheen of gloss, The slickness and the gildedness, the grand And overblown...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
“Simplify, simplify” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Does Christ have orchids in his living room— And roses, red in tea variety, A vase of Birds of Paradise to loom Where...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
“ere the mist/ Had altogether yielded to the sun” ~ William Wordsworth Some poets want a haze on Scalfell scenes And mist that lingers on a death-hued tarn. These writers think that distant history cleans Our Tuesday tedium. A rhyming yarn Is best if it shows ancient...
