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. ...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2024 | AL
Sunrise and Evening Star and Clearest Calls The Virgin Birth, Divinity of Christ, Existence or the non-existence of One God or more, no matter how spliced, sliced Are symbols we should nurture, even love Them if they prove as fruitful as the tree That Jesus cursed was...
