by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | SA
“The Morning Stars Sang Together” The greens of jade absorb the red of blood, Take in the blot of death. In hungry veins Jiang Qing sucked in a flow, a youthful flood Of soldiers’ young transfusions. Screaming stains Ran down stacked altars from...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | TU
The Crescent-shaped Royal Ransom Revenge across the Centuries Wikipedia The Lionheart King Richard won and lost The Holy Land but on his way back to Misgoverned England he was caught and tossed Inside a donjon by a kangaroo Middle European greedy duke...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BU
Serenity Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem As if a sacred nothing were a kind Of gift, Gautama left his palace, went To wander in the world’s ways and to find Enlightenment adrift on...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | BE, BR
Far from Grim He has a wayward symmetry, not right Like Christ’s, this hair a harmful Rupert Brooke’s. The marble-like complexion gathers light, Transluscent, pure, too beautiful for books. The faintness and the flawlessness of skin Stretched...
by phillipw | Dec 12, 2019 | AN, FA, PS
Freudian Slope When angels go insane, what does the Great Physician do? Does He invite them to His soft, silk-covered couch, help them uncrate Their dreams, discuss them, and reveal their true Anxiety? Perhaps He gives warm drugs Injected lovingly...
