by phillipw | Feb 1, 2026 | PL, SO, WR
Don’t Put Obstacles on the Tracks Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporar The writing of a sonnet comes like train Adventures. Board a train. You then sit down. The sonnet rides along, click, click, no strain. The...
by phillipw | Feb 1, 2026 | PA, Uncategorized
The Past, the Past, the Past . . . Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The past, the recent past, is so far gone That it and other pasts are mist-pale spheres Unborn, and spheres that never were, a dawn That...
by phillipw | Feb 1, 2026 | BU
The Methods of the Buddhist Monks’ Bakery and Buddha’s Lips like Horizontal Slugs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If God’s archangel were a slug or frog The Japanese might write a haiku on God’s glowing...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | IM, RE
Religionists Are Like Pooh, a Bear of Very Little Brain Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem While milking breasts of immortality, That tortured stretched out, racked out thought of life, We find the awful...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | AU, DE, DI, ST
The Golden Bastardized Egg The brutal colors of the Nazi folk Are now repeated much around the world. Their grey and black and brown are like the yolk In black Beelzebub’s brown egg that’s swirled With Satan’s semen. Echoes of the Reich sound Reverberate in Europe...