by phillipw | Jan 22, 2026 | AE, AL, ES
True Beauty Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem True beauty hovers, shapes that want your form To fill them. Instantly you feel them throb Inside soul’s marrow or more like a storm Of Birds of...
by phillipw | Dec 2, 2025 | AL
Despite His Bourgeois Salesman Dad and Wavy Hair He turns to drink, to alcoholic drink Because he is too stupid to decide A better way to live. His choices stink, But then he isn’t bright enough to guide Himself correctly. He was clearly told As if the brightest sun...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | AL, CA, LE, SU, TH
Single-mindedness “Five times as warm, and five times as cold, just as I am five times as rich as you are, and five times as clever.” ~ The Red Queen The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water. Basho, Translated by R.H. Blyth There’s nothing that...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AL, TE, TW, Uncategorized
Beyond Christian Morals “We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.” ~ Sir Thomas Browne Send out your sails from far inside your soul. Prepare their ships for winds to take you far Away from moored up human heart, its shoal Of shallowness, beyond the safest...
by phillipw | Sep 4, 2025 | AL, DA, HI
Adolf Chewing on Heinrich How long the evil in your life will stretch Beyond your death you cannot know. Your deeds Will find a living tombstone where they etch Your message planted there among the weeds Of time, perhaps eternity. Perhaps The tongues of angels...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2025 | AL, AS
Constellations as Cathedrals Filled with Scientific Light Beside the seashore near my childhood home The stars are nearer, not just starlight; stars Themselves are closer in the heavens’ dome. It used to be that something like high haars Divided us from Alpha Tauri. ...
