by phillipw | May 29, 2025 | AE, AR, PO, Uncategorized
“What Is the Price of Those Chintz Curtains?” For most, true poetry seems too like art, Those other arts. The artifice is not What weakens it. They don’t object to heart In verse. The problem is that it is nought (Or less than) in its power to make things change...
by phillipw | Apr 11, 2025 | AR, AU, LA, LO, MI, Uncategorized, WI
Notes on a Forgotten Burial Ground Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The cemetery where his aunts lie deep Beneath the sand of Florida hulks deaf To poetry. This trio lies in sleep Far lower than a...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2025 | AE, AR, ES
Material Ideals Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The men who made cathedrals, workers, not The architects; the Indian men who built The temples, stone designs completely fraught With...
by phillipw | Feb 28, 2025 | AR, CH, WH
From “Hog Butcher to the World” to the British Library Rare Books and Music Reading Room His father’s father worked where hanging screams Were not allowed. The carcases had had Their windpipes slashed. Warm blood in gasping streams Had fallen past his eyes. ...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2024 | AR, ES
Venus by Botticelli, Diadoumenos, Johann Sebastian Bach Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Perfection has its drawbacks. It destroys Descendants in their hopes to make an art That breathes new beauty. ...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2024 | AR, FU, WO
Recessional Marche Triumphale ~ Sigfrid Karg-Elert Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Throughout the chancel and the nave fall flowers In colors edged the space with petals, form And shape. Despite the...
