by phillipw | Dec 25, 2021 | CH, GR, MO, Uncategorized
Archangels in the Moon Garden on Christmas Morn The flowers in whitest rows set forth their white Perfume beside the Great Rift Valley on The day that Christ was born. A rose’s might Is all that they can muster in this dawn Of Kenya. That is strong enough,...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2021 | DE, SH, SI, TR
Simple ’Tis the gift to be simple ~ Shaker song The sea seems simple in our sight today. The waves, if varied, do not vary much. They come and go. They come and go. The way The sun comes up is ordinary, such As many days before. Of course it finds The mountain...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2021 | MO, UN
Empty Preservation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “To the loose stones that lay upon the highway, ...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2021 | WH
Whales and Red Wailing Whales never shut their staring eyes but when They sleep. The shutting of the eye for whales Is hard. If they could use a fountain pen, They would not want to write the wounding tales Of what they see in decades underneath The...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2021 | RA
Brighter in Echo than Gold Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The richness of the farmhouse is its fields Of rippled wheat or roaring yellow rape. The farmland opens up its yellow yields In turn and...