by phillipw | Dec 5, 2019 | TR
Paradoxtrine: One is Three, Ta DA! A god or demigod was lurking round The corner everywhere. The pagan mind Was wonderfully elastic, never bound By anything but superstition, blind Belief requiring nothing like strict thought: A thousand deities were...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2019 | RE
The Far-Flung Flames on Atavistic Heights The far-flung flames on ancient altars still Arise in men’s imaginations. Though Those sacral altars have no priest to kill The lurching victim, minds can see the glow Of holy fires four thousand years now gone. The...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2019 | GR
Altars in the Nightfall The isles of Greece! the isles of Greece Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose,...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2019 | CH, FR, LO, RA, ST
Charles Randall Stanfield He made the sound that stars make, rushing through The sky, my sky at least, that one inside My chest. My ribs contain celestial blue, That wounded blue that’s made when stars collide (Just two of them) when crashing there within My...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2019 | AS, UN
Atoms in Space Infinite lengths beyond the bounds Where stars revolve their little rounds. ~ Isaac Watts We know now that the galaxies are in Their trillions numbered. So, if we compute Uncountable trillions of stars that spin Across the cosmos,...
