by phillipw | Mar 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
My Sonnet Wants to Be on Vellum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I know it’s nigh to blasphemy, but still It’s true: my focus on the form I use Is like obsessions of the monkish quill And brush that in...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Mind’s Rule Says There Is No . . . The rain of yesterday stalks up my soul Though that is quite impossible because I do not harbor one. No, no-one stole It, not a devil or a god whose laws Forbid such theft. I simply never had A soul. I’m not from ectoplasm of...
by phillipw | Mar 5, 2025 | CH, JU
The Peaceable Kingdom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Whatsoever things are true . . . think on these.” Philippian 4:8 Our world can never be pristine again. It never was, yet all too many feel It...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2025 | CH, DO, JE, PU, TR, Uncategorized, VL
Gog and Magog to the Fray Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Great deceiver of the world” ~ A. Cleveland Coxe The prophets never thought about the chance That Armaggedon could be caused by...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2025 | AN, DI, PI
Praying Mantis Unlimited Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Glass globes with snow scenes in them are alone In holding innocence. No other space Shows equal calm. Most others whisper groan While...