by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | DI, GO
Condescending When humans make a God more human, we Make God less God. A God or Goddess falls Uzzah struck dead by God Like Dagon when we dress divinity In ways we know. The Gods should have their halls In separate spheres from ours and filled with fires...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | FI, LI
Entirety A hand receives a firefly on its palm And holds wings for as long as they will stay. The moment is a time for twilight, calm, A luminescent quietness, dark and day, To meld together, briefly, briefly. Brief The instant, instant, instant but the...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | ME, RE
Renaissance Confusion Leading on to Shelley http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Laset/DefenNotes.htm Though poetry is not divine, some minds, Awakening centuries’ minds, turn Plato’s views To make that claim. A lonely scholar winds The esthetician’s...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | GO, TR
Enough Trouble Caused When we began to put the gods in myth And the language of the poets, transcendence Died. This literature became the smith That pounded, flat, godly ascendance To make them jewellery foil for our minds. They used to be so coolly far above Us that...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | MY, RE, TH
Moses, Saint Francis, Saint Teresa ….. Gods used to come. We felt a sudden gust. A moment came, somewhere, somehow, at dawn Or in the twilight. Daybreak caused a thrust Of deepest recognition, then withdrawn. A twilight apparition might remain A fraction longer...
