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...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2025 | AU, DE, LE
Ambiguity People are few. October leaves also fall, Here, there, now and then. ~ Issa [Englished by Phillip Whidden] The people come and go. As symbols they Lack wings unlike black Lucifer or God. The people are far fewer in the day Than leaves that flutter, wings...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | AU, DE, FA
Fall? But what if it’s an autumn leaf? Can you Lean back to April and the early spring? If so, the challenge will be making new From withered old. The leaf may be a wing October soon will send across the chill Of air, Vermont in varying leaf veins Of yellow,...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AU, DI, DO, EV, WI
Siniquity The cleansing of the temple and the deaths Of Ananias and Sapphira failed To scrub the world of all its worst bad breaths. Along came Donald tRUMP—and Hitler sailed To power. Pol Pot and Stalin rose to heights Of depths. Queen Mary burned the...
