by phillipw | May 28, 2020 | AR, BI, CA, CH, DU, FR, MA, RA, Ta
Feline Thoughts on Pedigree The English, as usual not nonplussed By foreign aristocracy, impressed No, not at all by noble, upper crust, Unbishoped Talleyrand, were not hard pressed To sneer at Duc de Biron. After all, Detesting frog and wog, Brits would snigger At...
by phillipw | May 22, 2020 | AM, BI, DA, GA, SH, TH
Sonnets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ……. A friend of Constable said Virgil’s sense He gained from culture drove him to presume That prime boys were “the...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | BI
Unsentimental Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The frozen tarn, so dark below, so bright Across its surface, can’t be happy, sad, Or feel emotion, either black or light. Above it...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | BE, BI, CA, KI
Buso No miracles are needed when kittens Abound. Their stripes and spots and blotches say Enough. Mine has all of these and mittens Of white as pure as Baby Jesu’s soul away On ox’s straw, as white as light from eyes Of ass and angels looking lost in...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | BI, KI
The Greatest of These Authoritative, bevelled, and complete The language of the King James Bible speaks. It knows, conflation at its height, replete With meaning and beyond, displays antiques Behind pure glass, antiques of beauty like Clean gilded china, glazed...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | BI, CO, CR, UN
Splendor Exploding outwards now, the universe Is ever an expanding tidal wave, A circle of catastrophe, a curse. It is an ever-living deathly grave For all that it gives birth to, hexing life Produced in its calamities. It sears Its breath across...
