by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | SO
Heavenly Messengers Come Down to the Cities of the Plain The possibility of knowing them Intrigued the men of Sodom. (Angels came To Sodom seldom.) Why did God condemn These citizens to rained-from-heaven flame And brimstone? Wouldn’t you have wanted...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | FR
Barraqué, Un Homme Piquant comme Moi The newer teacher didn’t know me long Before he asked, “You are a tetchy friend, Aren’t you?” Mais oui, I think that it is wrong For friends to treat us badly. There’s an end To that discussion. What’s the use,...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | IS
Christian and Muslim in North Africa Devoted as that Berber, Augustine Of Hippo, Antonin defends belief. Why shouldn’t he? The young man’s mind is clean, As clean as desert dunes without relief From blasts of wind and brutal sun, as pure As cool oasis water, still,...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | RI, WI
[Arthur Rimbaud and Oscar Wilde were born four days apart from each other. They both died and are buried in France. Wilde arrived as a student at Oxford at the same time that Rimbaud was abandoning poetry and teaching French in the large house of his employer in...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | BE
Orlando Sanford International Airport Not just the eyes, but lashes too: the young One there behind the check-in desk has hearts- Stopping eyes and lashes, black, highly strung Sublimity of beauty to launch hard parts Of anyone who yearns for grace, launched to...
