by phillipw | Aug 15, 2024 | AL
Drunk on Innocents’ Blood Annoyance from lightweight metal tins Of beer comes out from those who, burping, drink. No swiller ever stops to ponder sins Against the victims. Guzzlers do not think About the nastiness of chugging booze, Effects on others. All...
by phillipw | Jul 25, 2024 | AL, ER, LO, SE
The Thousand and One Heights Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem لحب الجنسي Let us imagine that we have an hour Alone together in Alhambra tiles, A fountain playing near us with its shower Of love that...
by phillipw | Jun 18, 2024 | AL, Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We live and move with beings who have not Revealed their hidden histories to us, These humans hiding narratives whose plot We never guess unless we try succuss...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2024 | AL, JO, MI, PA
“The mind is its own place” ~ Paradise Lost, Book I, Lines 221-270, John Milton The mind creates its own space/time inside A rumpled space in skulls. The gravity In that dimension grows as long and wide As heaven and hell to hold depravity Of atom bombs and...
by phillipw | May 29, 2023 | AL, BO, DO, LO, OS, WI
BruteBitchBastard Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “like murdered singing birds” Lord Alfred turned to singing something worse Than that monstrosity, that attic room Abomination. He became...
by phillipw | Dec 15, 2022 | AL, AT, HI
Raising Civilization Ten thousand years ago men took to ploughs To train wild grass to flourish tame and fat. Men didn’t know that drilling seeds would rouse The walls of cities, brewing hops in vat, And stewing barley (whisky). Men grew drunk Not just...
