by phillipw | Feb 23, 2022 | CH, ST
After the Storm the Council Chopped Up the Birch Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Quite like that birch tree on the nearby green, Chuck stood both tall and slim, and black and white. He leaned a bit...
by phillipw | Feb 23, 2022 | DI, GO, IN
Like Mystics Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It isn’t strange that men draw us to God, That women, children, boys and girls require The heart to think divinity, not odd...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2022 | BU, HA, UN
The Subatomic and the Infinite A trout swims beneath. Clouds moves upon the surface And above the stream. The perfect haikus, if such things exist, Involve minutiae of life; not just Those, though. Embracing clarity and mist The lines take in the astral, far the...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2022 | BI
White Notes on Black No matter how you, blackbird, sing, the night Will come. The flow of beauty from your beak, Like fluid as if streaming from the height Of hillsides or from mountain’s midday peak, Will not give pause to coming of the dark. No...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2022 | CH, JU, RE, RI, SO
Inner, not Outer Rightness 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them … , with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and...
