by phillipw | Jul 28, 2020 | AT, DE, HE, MO, PE, PO, VE
Their Painted Desert Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem They wait. They wait beneath. They wait below Us, we who live. Some wait in mud like Peat Men sacrificed for long lost reasons. Woe Is far...
by phillipw | Jul 28, 2020 | HE, TR
It’s All We Have The landscape that we know touchingly we Refer to as the present. It is what We map and that is all. We cannot see The facts of other times or see the strut Of future or of past. “The noo,” as Scots Pronounce it, is our limit. We pretend...
by phillipw | Jul 27, 2020 | KA, LI, MA, NU, RE, TR, VI, ZO
Some readers may find this piece offensive. If you think you might be offended, please do not read it. “Both in the Heavens and on Earth, Visible and Invisible” ~ Colossians 1:16 Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem...
by phillipw | Jul 26, 2020 | OR, RE, TR, WO
Orpheus and Male Reincarnation When Orpheus decided that he craved Escape from women utterly and so Desired migration of his spirit saved From birth to any of them and to go Instead into the beauty of a cob, The poet did not try to fly away To some escape from further...
by phillipw | Jul 26, 2020 | DE, SW
Swans in Meaningful Blue The swans pretend that death does not exist, Or one at least turns, drifting, with his eyes Ignoring it. Still, never mind the mist, The shadows far away use its disguise To threaten him so gently that he does not Record the menace. ...
