by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | DE, LI
Dreary Literary Theory There’s nothing quite so clear that scholars can’t Transmogrify it to opacity. There’s nothing academics won’t enchant Away to mud with their audacity. They do this with their stupid fancy words And jargon they deploy to make them seem More...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | NA
Ugly Beauty You might want to read this sarcastic version of the Greek myth http://www.shmoop.com/echo-narcissus/summary.html before you read the sonnet. The music comes from speakers. Radio 3 broadcasts strains and sounds. They’re more like...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | AS
Rocklike Truth Across the Eons Ashoka “proclaimed that morality is the only act of fame and glory.” https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/AshokStambhaThailand.jpg ancientorigins.net Ashoka chose to speak. He spoke in stone. The Buddha was his guide. His...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | BE, RO
Chopin Blossoms The roses are arranged in Chopin sweeps. Arranged as darker roses in a curve, They look like notes and melodies in deeps Of wounds that lean to purple. In their swerve They look as if a choir of flourished notes, Arpeggios, and mordents had...
by phillipw | Nov 15, 2019 | MA
Bimbalance Although she wasn’t very pretty like Her man, she got him. This occurs in life . . . Though sometimes it’s the other way. The wife Is pretty, young, desirable. His spike Unveils her desperation, thrusts its way To her fulfilment, and she’s...
