by phillipw | Aug 28, 2019 | PI
Piano . . . Softly Gone Away Pianos disappeared. They evanesced So silently we did not even know That they were fading. Women acquiesced In this demise and men let silence grow, Or, rather, stereos and CDs filled The space of ivory keys with black ones in Between. ...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | HY
Prayers of Hypocrites Do prayers of hypocrites pierce through the clouds And enter God’s soft earlobe? Does God bend His ear unto their beggings? There’d be crowds Of them aflapping at their journey’s end If heaven’s gates are slammed against...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | VA
My Heart is Like a Satin Valentine My heart is like a satin valentine Except instead of dark and darker things With pastel sickly centers, glossy shine Still inwardly desires love’s angel wings. The irony is far too much for me And you know even better how...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | FR
Five Friendship Sonnets Best at a Distance Some say that friendship’s realm is nowhere but Nostalgia. Love of man for man exists In regions where the friend is absent, shut Out, exiled, say, or better dead, subsists On mourning, loss,...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | FR
October Heights For Carl The autumn sweeps across Vermont again As flame-shaped hills define the distant days. Once more I live in exile–and the pain Of frosted air and leaves and dawns of haze Creates the landscape of my memories. There will not be another...
