by phillipw | Jul 23, 2025 | AG, AT, RE
An Unnecessary Vacuum Quite apart from faiths, We see the cherry blossoms And blooms on plum trees. ~ Nanpoku [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem...
by phillipw | May 15, 2025 | AT
Treat Prophets and Such Things with Light Disdain A googol times a trillion eons passed Before you came. You were not missed in all That stretch though there was nothing in that vast Unstretched-out stretch. That fact does not appall Us. We are comfortable with...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2024 | AG, AT
Above an Empty Ocean Bed Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem An altar set to sea and air built high To reach a God too far to touch, too far From prayers, awaits a flame to fall and ply It with destruction...
by phillipw | Dec 15, 2022 | AL, AT, HI
Raising Civilization Ten thousand years ago men took to ploughs To train wild grass to flourish tame and fat. Men didn’t know that drilling seeds would rouse The walls of cities, brewing hops in vat, And stewing barley (whisky). Men grew drunk Not just...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2022 | AT, CA, HI, MA, NA
Dispensation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What falls from heavens here upon the earth Brings mornings set with richness and with flux. A fullness settles, once with grief or...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2021 | AT, IC, LO, NE
Young Hearts upon a Massachusetts Plane More beautiful than ghost-like, they are real, The skaters on the winter pond at night. They swerve around and skim about on steel, On circle (pond), make ovals as in flight, December birds whose wings are skates along The...
