by phillipw | Feb 23, 2026 | AU, LO, WI
Pitiless Love at La Grange Burial Ground Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A cloud-like breeze in Florida flows through The cemetery. Headstones with their names And dates don’t notice breezes. Hopes once...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | AU, DE, DI, ST
The Golden Bastardized Egg The brutal colors of the Nazi folk Are now repeated much around the world. Their grey and black and brown are like the yolk In black Beelzebub’s brown egg that’s swirled With Satan’s semen. Echoes of the Reich sound Reverberate in Europe...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2026 | AS, AU, FA, MA, PA, Uncategorized
Solemn Piano Music Forever Ecstatic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When autumn comes, it comes because it goes In everyone. Because it goes, it comes Outside and in us. Autumn does not doze But grows...
by phillipw | Jan 16, 2026 | AU, WI
Grown Up Woodrow Sitting in One of the Chairs for Elders in the Ridiculous Excuse for a Sanctuary in Brevard County Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Reverence my sanctuary” We wonder how he felt, that...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2026 | AU, PE
Who Cares for Ivory, Pink and Red? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Aunt Ruby’s well brought up the truest pink That God had ever hoped for pink to be. The peach tree’s petals were not for her sink....
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2025 | AU, BL, WI
Reduced to Perfect Expansion — Grammar for Mystics Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It’s quite a trap, you know, this seeing of The universe contained within a grain Of sand, the sending of a thought above...
