by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | BE
Radioactive Loveliness The face across from me is beautiful, So beautiful it strikes my lungs with pain, Destroys desires for being dutiful— Except for loyalty to loving’s stain. I thought that beauty of this order could Not be discovered in this modern day, A time...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | MA
The Young Student of Philosophy His generality of beauty stuns, But then the individuality Of perfect featured combination runs To higher realms like immortality. The study lamp casts heaven on his hair, Or rather, causes tresses of the gods To shine across his...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | SP
Magic and Magic, Spring and Spring Trees eveanesce once they have bloomed each spring. They disappear in humdrum hues and we Ride past them unaware. A magic ring Is cut in bark. Invisibility Results. As if they were not ever there In puffed...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | CR, TR
I Saw the Cricket Ground I saw the cricket ground in evening light, In Windsor light with calm men moving through The evening air and dressed in cricket white. Long centuries are contained beneath the blue Of evening sky which folds the chestnut blooms In its...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2019 | MA
Masculinity I pass a giant redwood tree each day I go to London. There across the street The redwood raises its erect array Of dark green bristles and its subtle and discreet Tight bark. Its greyness has the touch of tints Of warmer colors but the...
