by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST
The Pleiades and the Church of the Savior Bing Videos When he has died, perfection throbs through all, Not just through him but also through a height Complete, distilled, sublimed. An Everest tall With peak of ice both see-through and pure white Like heaven’s...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
For Charles Randall Stanfield on 71st His Birthday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If suns were smog and smog were suns, if fog Were clean and bright yet suns’ coronas dim Like haar, if deserts’ sun were...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Her voice was ever soft, Gentle and low” Cordelia’s mistake was in her taut Mouth, silence, she refusing praise where praise Was needed, truth expressed as praise. She ought To have found other methods, other ways To counter sisters’ flattery. She gives Lear...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | GR
Saw-toothed Tapeworms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Despite how giant tortoise-like the years A man may live, his pains outweigh that length And they are harder shelled. They come with spears To...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | CH, FR, MA, ST
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Seventh Type of Ambiguity ~ William Empson A single photon passes through two slits At once, impossible, yet not quite so. The quantum...
