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...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | AL, BA, BI, GA, HE, RO, ST
Barsine, Roxane, Hephaestion, Bagoas and So On and So On Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Prince Alexander’s face looks melted, hard But melted slightly. Hardness lives in stone. The melting comes from...
by phillipw | May 12, 2020 | BI, KI, MO, MU
What Understanding Does: a Pair of Sonnets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Son of man, can these bones live?” ~ Ezekiel 37:3 When faith is in retreat, then scripture reads More beautifully,...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | BI, SP, TR
He Might As Well Have Written Obscure Poetry So Socrates believes not just that Soul exists But is bipartite and tripartite, both. He postulates a mixed up nature. He twists And turns, an ancient Greek as mental sloth, Since this is contradictory at worst And badly...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2020 | BI
Why Hen Birds Don’t Warble Among the leaves, the limbs and branches birds Are singing. Everywhere these creatures perch Cocks make their sounds. The pulsing throats send words To others of their kind, from oak and birch And fence and hedgerow, saying, “Stop! This...
