by phillipw | Jul 12, 2020 | BE, IM, MA
Not for Conquering to Crush and Make a Cruel Empire but for Unforgotten Beauty “Hystaspes had a younger brother whose name was Zariadres: and they were both men of great personal beauty” ~ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, XIII, 919 So what if you exist in words alone In...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2020 | AE, AN, BE, ES, HE, PO
No Room for Unholiness not Cleansed “ ‘What would a man not give,’declares Plato in the Apology, ‘to engage in conversation with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer?’ Can we do something of the sort? If not to engage in conversation, then at least to glimpse...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, FR, NI, PH, PL
Nietzsche vs. Plato Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Nietzsche said that Plato was “the greatest enemy of art Europe has yet produced.” This Plato spoke in imagery so far Removed from Heidegger...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | BE, Ta, VI
Arctictis binturong Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem By TassiloRau, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=207524 Confusingly Arctictis binturong Is called a bear and also called...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | BE, BR, EA, MA, RA, WA
Death Defied in the British Library I sit across from Wayne, but decades on And much improved. Not only young again, But cuter nose, and lips more cushion drawn, More velvet-shaped—too lovely, these, to deign To pray or sing a Sabbath verse. The hair Is lovely,...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | BE, DE
The Faintest Stir Caused by a Moth’s Wing Passing Exactly where does beauty’s essence go? It sags beneath the wrinkles and that blotch Distressing tattered skin. The saggings grow As flesh slumps down in gravity. We watch Our children flourish, wilt and die if we...
