by phillipw | Nov 27, 2025 | AN, Uncategorized
The Great Divine Divide If you know kids, you understand the gods, The ancient Greek ones, female and the male. They’re brats and bitches. They are spoiled sods And uncontrollable. They always fail As adults, unpredictable as men And women, more like bullies in...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AN, GR, PA, PH, ZE
Zeno of Elea “It is true greatness to have in one, the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” ~ Seneca as quoted by Bacon in Of Adversity Just one reality exists. The rest Subsists in falsity. A paradox Occurs in other thoughts, their falseness best...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2025 | AN, GL, PO
The Poem Ne Plus Ultra Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We want a poem that obliterates The poet — and all poetry — , that sings In music ears will never hear. The gates Of heaven made of...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | AN, JA
Esthetic as Emetic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In general the tasteless in the land (And all lands) much prefer the sheen of gloss, The slickness and the gildedness, the grand And overblown...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2025 | AN, DI
Pathetic Either Or and Cryogenics “Tomorrow I shall live (the fool will say); Today’s itself too late: the wise lived yesterday.” ~ Martial [T]he world is a monster. Any three-year-old can see how unsatisfactory and clumsy is this whole business of reproducing and...
by phillipw | Mar 27, 2025 | AN
Hemlock Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The trees refuse to speak. At least they do Not speak our languages. Akkadian And Latin are rejected. As a clue They give us rings. Trees,...
