by phillipw | Oct 13, 2019 | AN
Before Bronze A feeling like a dizziness, or weak Unease, a nausea of paleness, or A seasickness experienced on sleek Internal waves swells up inside my core When suddenly I try to comprehend The eons lost before us. Ancient Rhodes Was ancient long before its...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2019 | AN, RE, SP
Love Stripped Naked and Transcending Guatama leaves his palace and wanders From his wealth across the plains, sits beneath A tree in calmness made of mind, ponders The cosmos, blasting pleasures, lasting pains, And settles on the center of a flower. It grows...
by phillipw | Sep 30, 2019 | AN, CU, FA, LU
God’s Love An angel sought to be like God, better Than Him. This Lucifer was hurtled down. He wanted only to break the fetter Of abject devotion. A fiery gown Enveloped him. He wears it still. It’s Hell. Eve tasted fruit. The curses came like snake...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2019 | AE, AN, BE, ES, GE, GR
Up Close and Pulchritude Hercules Musei Capitolini, Wikipedia The way we view ourselves as humans lies In how we see our past. Imagine then An ancient statue of a man. His eyes Are white, white,...
by phillipw | Aug 19, 2019 | AE, AN, BE, DI, ES, GR
Contemplation and Adoration He seems contemplative, his shadowed face So meditative that his beauty turns Away from us. He seems to fill more space Than marble ever could. His presence burns Through thousands of male years. The darkness all Around him is defeated. ...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2019 | AN
What Angels Do When Plastered What seraphs do when frescoed high above Us on the ceilings of a church has not Been contemplated. Cherubs gaze with love Upon the Virgin Mary and the cot Of straw and slumbering contents. Is that all They manage, stick to plaster roof...
