by phillipw | Nov 19, 2019 | AN, MU, PO
The Greek Gods Must Have Loved Simplistic Singing Fragment of Oxyrynchus hymn, Wikipedia The ancient Greeks were primitive about Their choral music. It was like a grade School choir in unison, with notes devout In worship of Apollo. One lyre played— Or aulos with...
by phillipw | Nov 19, 2019 | FR
In Chains and Shackles of the Presumptions of Free Verse The poets who disdain tradition’s forms, Reject the sonnet and the villanelle, Prefer arthritic shapes like tortured corms Or stringy roots that grow from mocking hell To desecrate pure pages with crabbed...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO
Surging Defeat Surging Defeat Is this Lot’s wife or some stone ghost-life lost? A dumb catastrophe like meteor hits And speaks to us. We feel the holocaust Despite not knowing what it was. A blitz Has thrown her clothing back while hacking at Her head. ...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO, UN
Music of the Contours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you view this on your phone, view it in landscape mode or the unique formatting will be lost. The way that curls are lovelier than...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | CA
Milele Tranquility, despite his tiny size, Rests strong in him as if a tiger’s dream Has come to dwell behind his calm blue eyes Because it chose to sleep encased in cream- And-grey striped cranium of fur. Of course He dozes almost all...
