by phillipw | Jan 20, 2024 | CA, FA, SA
Insatiable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Insatiable, your death creates a hole That sucks, a vacuum, a vortex made Of solar wind without a sun. No coal Was ever black as this. No...
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2024 | ME
Life Lives the Life of Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A friend asks you the meaning of our life. As soon as it is asked, the question fails. To ask it shouts religions’ godless strife. To...
by phillipw | Jan 17, 2024 | AU, FA, PA, PR
Heroic The autumn brings the woods to life at last, The life of splendor made of God and light, The light and colors dreamed of though more vast Than men imagine even in a rite Of Orthodox and patriarchal sheen Of silk, embroidery. The...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2024 | GA, HA, HE, NO, ST
The Female Pheasant’s Handsome Lover Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Noh fan opens out upon the stage. The female pheasant’s lover is the point. Her attitude to beauty makes her sage: When males are...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2024 | AE, AR, BE, CH, ES, MO, underarm hair
Microbes’ Excretion in the Priests’ Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I ask you, what’s the use of beauty if It’s undermined by nuns and monks at prayer, Their hands unknown to you that have a whiff...
