by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | MA
Scaramuccia The masks that others wear cause more intrigue Than they themselves present. At least a mask Involves some planning, though the poor intrigue Is often basic. If your brain should ask The slightest X-ray question, you will find The most...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
Like Casanova and St. Francis of Assisi His attitude to love is like a sore He dressed in velvet. He endures the stain Because he likes its dirtiness. What’s more, He thinks that love should leave a softened pain. He nurtures loves, so called, as if he were A...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | RE
Seventy Times Seven We never do forgive the dreamers. They Are forced to drink the hemlock. Logic leads Them to the high conclusions. Yes, we pray To some of them because they planted seeds In minds that generations cannot root Out. Still we crucify such...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | BE, BO, CE, CH
People are Starving in South Sudan (This poem has many illustrations. Keep going till you have read the rhyming couplet.) “A macaroon! A macaroon! “I cannot live without a macaroon!” ~ Pierrot, Aria da Capo by Edna St. Vincent Millay “We live in an...
