by phillipw | Jan 24, 2026 | BE, DE, Ho, YO
Across the Cosmos Desire Gets What Nature Dooms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The egg desires to be a larva. It Desires to be a pupa. That desires To grow transparent wings to fly, then flit From...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2026 | BE, IW, MA
Guys Expended for the Greater Bad Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When beautiful young men are killed, the sign They stand for towers over them. Forget Their armpits. Make their flag a holy shrine....
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2025 | AE, BE, ES, Ho
Epic Similes as Nectar Among Thorns “A poem of any length neither can be, nor ought to be, all poetry.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Litteraria “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AE, BE, ES, Uncategorized
In Met Miss Universe in a Diamond Tiara Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The butterfly flapped Away, was gone. My spirit Came back inside me. ~ Wafû The way a comet feels the pull of weight In weightless...
by phillipw | Oct 1, 2025 | AP, BE, CU, GA, Uncategorized
“Nothing is good or fair alone” ~ Emerson, “Each and All” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We know that no thing can be “fair or good Alone.” The Star of Africa when set In darkness in the deepest mine...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2025 | BE, DA, EN, SA, Uncategorized, VI
Enlightenment in One Nothing-like Moment in Nowhere Michigan Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The earliest of light, a line across The sky, the thinnest strip of sacral light Above the past’s horizon,...
