by phillipw | Aug 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Sonnet Sent Inward You send a sonnet to some body part, A non-expectant one, and when the text Is read there, say, inside your clueless heart, It learns its pulse of muscle has been hexed By dumbness life has lesioned there. A tongue Removed has left a...
by phillipw | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Poets Find the Truth Behind the Truth “The incessant and nauseating praise of God reveals a latent hatred of Him.” ~ R. H. Blyth Thank God we have the poets, not just priests. A trillion people do not grasp this fact But in their guts of guts they know the feasts Of...
by phillipw | Aug 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Religion Does “When Teng Yin-feng was about to die at Wutai, he said to the would-be mourners, ‘I have seen monks die sitting, and lying, but have any died standing?’ ‘Yes, some,’ they replied. ‘How about upside down?’ ‘Never heard of such a...
by phillipw | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Different Slant The ancient Chinese poets had no room In lines for love (romantic love), for love With hairy sex thrown in, but if a groom Lives long enough with bride, that love’s above The raunchy stuff so lines can be about It. Even then the facts...
by phillipw | Aug 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Strange Clubless Club The ancient Chinese poets thought that sex With love was not poetic, not between A man and woman. That was more like hex Than beauty. Married love was more their scene Because in it they didn’t have to deal With body parts. I...
