by phillipw | May 16, 2020 | CA, DA, KO, LE, LO, RO, SE
Only Lovers Cannot See Ahead Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem All kinds of lovers? Do we mean the sort Who love because of hot testosterone? Then maybe that is true. Such hormones thwart. The kind of...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | LO, SE
Torso Lamentation I wore all black from dawn to midnight on The day you left in exile. As if some Male widow, or goon abandoned by Don And mob, I stumbled on meanings of numb Unknown before. I wore a coma dark As an obsidian lid on a closed Coffin of a Mafia...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | GU, SI, SP
Edict How dull the gilded dome seems under clouds Of London gray. The perfect, swerving shape Looks saddened as if wearing mourning shrouds, Or dirtiness, or veils of thinnest crepe. Such beauty should not be degraded thus. But London,...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | CH, CR, NA, WI
Weakness Again and Again The English chopped the neck of Charles One, And next they had a king not called a king, The Lord Protector. Soon they called the son Of Lopped Off Head to bring back royal bling Like orb and crown. He failed to make an heir, Producing...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | DE
Buying Beauty for a Dying Woman He flies to Serenissima to buy Dark beauty for his dying wife. She sleeps Through nights and days now. Medicines are why Profound exhaustion governs. Tiredness creeps Through every artery and overwhelms Dense veins. The drugs are...
