by phillipw | Oct 3, 2018 | P, PO
Poetry is Not the Lever and Fulcrum of Archimedes “The full-flowering Scottish tradition of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas was defeated when Scotland was defeated.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry War changes poetry. Old English verse Had reached an apogee of...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2018 | MI, NU, S
Shàn in Abundance M Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem odern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I know a woman in Beijing who cares. She cares for...
by phillipw | Sep 5, 2018 | Z
Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs Some error in the program that supposedly allows me to present this sonnet in a normal sonnet format is blocking me from doing that. Ignore these forced mistakes in the formatting. It wasn’t an Islamic scholar who...
by phillipw | Aug 7, 2018 | A
A & P My mother took me to the A & P Quite often, in the 50s, and back then That market and the little town were key To my whole view, as Proust’s lost madeleine Became for him. The color of that cake Was like the dark orange smell of...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2018 | AE, AN, ES, TH, WA
An Aesthetic Rule for Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A wasp just landed on my hand. It moved About a while and flew away. A breeze So tiny I could barely feel it proved The threat was gone. My...
