by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AR, CO, PO
Formal Poetry against Free Verse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Plato in “inventing some extraordinarily powerful images of his own” came up with “notably the poet as Corybant”. ~ Penelope Murray,...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | BE, LO, MA, NA, SE
Narcissus Was the Perfect Lover in the Heights of Maleness, Leaping, and Diving Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Narcissus did not know. He came to love His own clean image, glossy, bright, and pure,...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | OR
Wretched Man that I Am Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A stain that won’t come out is on my jeans, My Levi’s 501s. It’s on the thigh, So sexy’s what it ought to be. It means A different thing: the...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AN, Ho, MU, OE, PO
Magnetized Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Just as a magnet attracts iron rings and induces in those rings the power to attract others, so the Muse inspires a chain of people possessed by...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | HE, PH, PL, PO, SO
What We Drink Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Who wants thick wisdom first in poems? It Is ours for chewing in the pleasures of The scrolls of Plato, thinkers who permit The thought that pleasure...