by phillipw | Jul 31, 2019 | AU
The Calmer Autumn Colors Range The calmer autumn colors range along Wide walkways of the city parks. The greens Predominate. We forget that their strong Insistence is the background to the scenes That poets paint about the season. Bold Explosions of a brigher...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2019 | IN
Awkward Repeatedly I’ve seen you do a dance, A little travesty of happiness. It is a dance but doesn’t give a chance To sentiment or Hallmark sappiness. Those steps are more a mockery and brief. They really only say, “Don’t look at...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2019 | LO
Who Teaches Us What Love Is? Who teaches us what love is, what it means? Who? No one. Many try, but none of them Succeeds. Some say it’s like quick benzedrines Without inhalers needed. Bethlehem Is touted as another meaning of This principle or...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2019 | SN
WARNING: Some readers might find this sonnet offensive. If you are easily offended, do not read it. Outpouring He picks his nose and eats the bogie raw. It seems impossible a scholar with So much beauty as to fire up awe, With so much handsome loveliness...
by phillipw | Jul 30, 2019 | LO
This luster glimmers on him in his sleep This luster glimmers on him in his sleep. A glowing from him when he lies at rest Lights bed and bedroom. Like torch flame deep Within a Delphic cave, a burn he blessed With breathing from the psyche of calm lungs, A...
