by phillipw | Jul 12, 2020 | AN, AR, BA, WA
Metallic Heroes Did not Dare to Turn their Backs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bronze swords, and shields, and helmets with their crests They wore while slicing men with wounds and death....
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2020 | AN
The Primitive Polyphemus before the Strangers’ Attack But then again we do not always need The total poem. Au contraire. We guess The substance missing. Hurt lines also bleed. The rips and blots allow us to say yes To meanings we imagine. Deletions Free up the mind...
by phillipw | Jul 9, 2020 | AN
Lopped and Crippled Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem So little full-limbed poetry survives The ancient Greeks, we’re left to deal with things Grammarians have saved for us—and lives Of poets put on...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2020 | AN, CO, HU, PO, RH, SC
I Have Looked upon the Face of Jolliness The ancient Greeks in poetry were lewd As limericks, playful, silly as a stand Up joker on a comic’s platform, rude And crude, yep, far more rude than Russell Brand. Emitted from these ancient rhythmic throats Were poems...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | AN, PO, PR, RH
Heroes, Victims, and Poseidon The metre of ancient Greek poetry succeeds in “achieving a length and complexity that are unusual in the heroic verse of other literatures.” ~ Michael Grant, The Rise of the Greeks, 325, as quoted in Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 16....
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2020 | AN, ST
Farsighted “Things that inadvertantly shape us draw upon structures, forms, legends, myths, which have their origin in ancient Mediterranean cultures.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets The temples stand still, still and broken. They Refuse to be...
