by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | HI
It’s Like a Fever It’s like a fever, undetectable, So calm its toxins slither round and hide. Its weaponry is not deflectable If once deployed past walls and gates inside The city that is you. Your love, though large And true, cannot defend your marrow, vein, Or blood...
by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | TH
Growing Up Most teenagers are boring in the mind. The geniuses, those yet to be, as much As all the rest. It is as if they’re blind To utterness unless it has a touch Of hormones in it. Once I searched the old Card catalogue at Harvard and I found There Henry...
by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | LO
Three Words He said the words to me today, the ones We want to hear, the ones that every heart Grows ears for, and the source of benisons That all religions wish they could impart. He said them on the telephone, this first Time ever, yet they seemed as spit-warm true...
by phillipw | May 31, 2019 | SO
Melodies for Sonnets I searched the Web for melodies to singA sonnet to, and YouTube offered four.Four measley tunes for sonnets! Here’s the thing:I reckon at the very least that moreThan 40,000,000 sonnets will have beenComposed since Petrarch tidied up the formAnd...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PR
“All His Biddings are Enablings ”* — The Higher View Jehovah is in charge. There’s nothing in Our universe outside His widest strength. He works mysteriously to counter sin; No agency, no matter to what length And what extremes it goes, escapes that reach. Negation of...
