by phillipw | Jul 10, 2024 | MI, PO, RO
Thrills and Swoon Romantic Novels Your fantasy reaches as far as your hands ~ Lorca, “Oda a Salvador Dalí” (Ode to Salvador Dalí) The prophet is a poet. His experience is one known to the poets. What the poets know as poetic inspiration, the prophets call divine...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | AS
Love’s Unreliable Astrolabe Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A rose is like an astrolabe if you Will use it wisely. Let it find the stars You want to lick beyond earth’s lowering blue. Allow...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | AU, FL
Fingering and Throat Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Wooden flutes pacify the air. ~ Lorca, “Ode to Salvador Dalí” (Oda a Salvador Dalí) A flute alone can bring the best of peace To air and...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2024 | MO
Madness and Modernism Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem https://x.com/i/status/1810148186025017458 The Modernists will say my measures mar Since made of sharp steel rulers; mean the soul Of poetry...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2024 | CO, ME, NU
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The novice nun waits still, a candle flame. The flame burns still. These three are still; no, not The column only, white, avoiding shame. A dusk of autumn fills her with...
