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...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2024 | AL, JO, MI, PA
“The mind is its own place” ~ Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 221-270, John Milton The mind creates its own space/time inside A rumpled space in skulls. The gravity In that dimension grows as long and wide As heaven and hell to hold depravity Of atom bombs and...
by phillipw | Feb 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Foldable Blossom Doom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because his fancies were not quite the norm, The notion of hydrangeas being like A mad old lady, mind and heart in storm, Had never...
