by phillipw | Mar 27, 2020 | ME
Medea Made of Marble, Barbarity, and Beauty …… One difficulty is that we make gold Where only bronze was. Alchemy of mind Tends finally to turn ideals and old Exemplars into falsenenesses which blind With kitschlike beauty. Worlds built on slaves Are...
by phillipw | Mar 27, 2020 | AN
Antarctic Range The mountain rises up sublime above The rabble of the rocks expressed by God Below the distant cloud. There isn’t love Here…maybe something like it in the odd Seal progeny and parents and a chick A penguin hunkers over still. That’s it....
by phillipw | Mar 27, 2020 | LI
Counterintelligence A text becomes a pretext for a nerd Of criticism, theorizing, or Detectives’ brains. The poem is a turd For lab investigation. Those minds pore Between the lines. These Sherlocks search for clues About the author or the context in His...
by phillipw | Mar 27, 2020 | LL
Llanbadarnfawr “Llanbadarn Fawr’s monastic library grew in size and importance; reputedly larger than those of Canterbury Cathedral and York Minster.” ~ Wikipedia A dwindling, at the very best, awaits. A death, a long time coming, may not come For...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2020 | DR, NI
Radical A dream is a reality as true As daylight drenching, scorching skin on face And throat. A dream is fact, an ultra blue As seen through telescopic sin and grace, A denseness like Magritte’s and Dali’s dreams If they were dire blue diamonds in a...
