by phillipw | Aug 19, 2024 | AP, AR, DI, PO, Uncategorized
For TikTok, Instagram and Not . . . Eternity Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A buried sundial, buried in the ash Of Pompeii’s death, saw time not marked by sun For nearly two millennia. As trash In...
by phillipw | May 21, 2023 | AP, AR, GR, HA, SE
How Humans Came to Know Themselves “Know thyself.” ~ the pronaos of Apollo’s temple at Delphi Jeremiah 17:9 By juxtaposing paradoxes of Crabbed contradictions ancient Greeks called gods, Greeks learned to know themselves, thus taught that love And...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2021 | AP, Ho, LU
Blessèd Are the Beautiful The people built for glamor are built for Worship. Adulation of the crowd Is studio directed so that, more Like worship, it concocts a Venus proud Of her authority or actors veil Themselves like royalty in Oz. We do Not want their...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2021 | AP, CH, CR
Cherry Trees, Apple Trees, Crabapple Trees as Temple Domes Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our souls go out of us when cherries bloom. Our souls go winging out, but not quite free. Instead they have to...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2021 | AL, AP, Uncategorized
Lack of Olive Oil for Cooking and Cleaning Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Alexander’s men learned they were out Of olive oil, or nearly out, they stopped. They halted. They began to soldier...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2021 | AN, AP, AR, GR, SC
Aegean Immortality Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The eye begins to wonder if the truth About Greek statues is that gods still sleep Within them, living, deep within their youth. The eye looks...
