by phillipw | Nov 27, 2025 | AN, Uncategorized
The Great Divine Divide If you know kids, you understand the gods, The ancient Greek ones, female and the male. They’re brats and bitches. They are spoiled sods And uncontrollable. They always fail As adults, unpredictable as men And women, more like bullies in...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2025 | PR, TR
Profiles in Pusillanimity “God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.” ~ Emerson, “Self-reliance” It used to be that we had Senators And Congressmen and women. Now that’s changed. In decent times we had progenitors Who gave us heroes. Now we are...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | FA, RE, TR
Over the Rainbow “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living,...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | NI, SO
Supreme Socrates and Nay-saying Nietzsche Considered in the Context of the Eternal Recurrence Nietzsche in ancient Greek straitjacket as Socrates with hemlock; image produced by Grok AI at the direction of the poet If Socrates had had a watch, he would Have wound it...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Harlequin Ruse Honeys Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spun sugar on a five-star chef’s dessert Looks like romances sold at checkout tills In Walmart, women wanting needed spurt Of unattainables, not...