by phillipw | Nov 5, 2023 | BL, CH, ST, UN, WI
Not Holy Enough my Bow He gave to me the end of this, a string Of gold. I tried to make it endless, pure. His love of Heaven’s white hot God might sing Perfection. Love like that, though, could not cure His sickness. My affection also could Not heal...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2023 | BL, PE, PH, SO, WI
Bliss’s Obsidian Wand Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Maleness is magic, the potent principle of universal creativity.” ~ Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, 40 A warlock holds his...
by phillipw | May 1, 2023 | BL, GO, MU
Before the Foundation of the World Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty. ~ John Keats If we were forced to choose between a...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2023 | AR, BL, MO
Unlike Us Who Shrivel Separately The morning glories Brandish side by side and then They wither, wither. ~ Hokushi (Englished by Phillip Whidden) It is as if the vines and tendrils grow Because some God thinks He has made...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2022 | AS, BL, MU, PH
The Music of the Sphere Known as a Black Hole https://twitter.com/Phoenix22555220/status/1562149765839732740?s=20&t=D3UNCn1z5-0dtrIopqEVRg Beyond the realm of Seven Sisters, sound Reverberates away from total death. The hole That makes this seethe is like a giant...
by phillipw | Dec 29, 2021 | BL, ME
Life Flame in an Anchoress Your life itself is purest flame. No flame Burns ever as impurity, but you And everyone have something never tame Inside you, screeching, an unseen sun. Blue, Its heat cannot be measured. Blue involves Both heat and cold. Blue...
by phillipw | Jul 26, 2021 | BI, BL, SO
Throbbing Out Music in March Japanese Bush Warbler song ウグイス 鳴き声 信越の高原 7月上旬 野鳥4K 空屋根FILMS#1078 – Bing video Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In winter in the bushes near the ground The uguisu...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2021 | BL, BU, GO, GR, IO, KI, KY
Born from the Genitals of Uranus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The eyes of Aphrodite are more blue, As blue as depths off Kythira, perhaps As pale as blue waves mariners see through Before they find...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2021 | AM, BI, BL, WI
Black and White Lambs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Black And White Lambs by Pat Scrap on Pixabay If I were just a little lamb in spring, I think that I would want to be both...
by phillipw | Jun 3, 2021 | BL, FE, MA, SE, SU
Mastery The first dream morning brought, on honeymoon To start his life together, he smiled, yawned, And stretched, and then he moved himself to spoon Against that back and hips. It slowly dawned Inside his brain that he could grin and keep This...
by phillipw | May 1, 2021 | BL, DE, MO, ON, UN
A Stretched Out Oneness Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When flowers bloom we blossom in them, too, Inside their petals and their pinks, inside Electric yellow touched with orange. The blue...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2021 | BL, BO, GA, ST, Uncategorized
Bob Stubbs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He wallowed in his first epiphany. He could not bring himself to leave the thrill Of it behind. The first polyphony When it appeared in music...
by phillipw | Dec 29, 2020 | BL, CH, IN, JU, RE, SA, SI, ST, VI
Inspiration Our days and nights are blind like Homer, blind And seeing, deep and wide, but still inept. Time carries us through life but like a mind Confused through madness. Life remains adept At fraud, poetically and just with scales Upon its...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2020 | AU, BL, CL, FA, PE, PU, SI
Physics and Metaphysics Clean Water and Black Hole Scars Shizukasa wa kuri no ha shizumu shimizu kana The quietness; A chestnut leaf sinks Through the clear water. ~Shōhaku The simple, clear, transparent, and the pure Are summed up in the...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2020 | BL, BR, DE, GA, Ho, HU, JE, LE, MO, UN
The Song for the Statue of Liberty Sing out your foreign song. Sing out your truth. Sing out the way that you are different from The rest. Chant out from in your Succoth booth Or from your monastery. Let songs come From pink brown Harlem lips. Involve the...
by phillipw | Sep 9, 2020 | BL, CH, GR, LO, ST
Love Divine, All Loves Expelling When you were killed by lightning (yes, by God Himself—Herself, perhaps), voltage struck The Shenandoah River where that odd Thing, God’s strange love, took Charles. It ran amok That afternoon beneath the blackened sky, That bleak...
by phillipw | Jun 5, 2020 | AR, BL, CH, EA, HA, HE, Ho, MA, WA, WH
Backside Gas in that Jar Called Yale One Harold Bloom says modern verse began In 1890—or about then. That Is what one venerating friend claims. Can That be? Only an academic prat Could be so arrogant and blinkered. I Say modern verse began at least as far Back...
by phillipw | May 26, 2020 | BL, CH, HU, MU, PA, SA, WE
Inklings “We hear of his composing chants and hymn-tunes when he was about eight”. Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1928), 55 Some chants and melodies for hymns at eight Gave childhood hints, yet first among the strong To forge him...
by phillipw | May 22, 2020 | BL, EN, GR, PE, PO, SC, SH, TE, WI
Poets Are the Legislators of the Scientific World In 2011 I was reading a biography of John Keats. In the introduction Lord Byron is quoted as saying that Keats "belonged to that second-hand school of poetry" because he got his inspiration from...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | BL, BR, CH, DE, ST, TH, TR, Uncategorized, VI
Inhalers Created for Chuck one day before the anniversary of his birth. “When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | AN, BL, DE, EN, NO, NU, VO
No One When you are dead, the violets will bloom In quiet purple or in white. The years Will pass, will pass to centuries, and winters loom With blossomed frost on window panes. The spheres Above this world will spin and sweep until Eternity...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | BL, LO
Love is Thicker than Blood Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Ask Romeo on Juliet. They know. So, never mind blood being thicker than Mere water. Blood commands a certain flow Propelled by thumping flesh....
by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | BL, RO
Threat and Self Salvation The bud looks like a ruined dream of cloth That wants to be a pale mauve casing for An infant butterfly or for a moth Awaiting birth, except it opens more Like tissue made of bruising and of scar, Made more with doom than promise. Each dark...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | BL, PH
No Volcanoes of Bleak Lava Anywhere No single thing pours darkness into space, Not one. All bodies give off heat or light, Or store, absorb them, never spray a mace Of blackness whether they are specks in flight Around a nucleus or clustered group Of galaxies around...
by phillipw | Aug 20, 2019 | BL, MY
Sand Grains: Blake’s Universe [Grains of sand under a light microscope] https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2011-photomicrography-competition/sand I walk along a tropic beach of sand And feel the sun’s heat in the grains, wonder If, counting my...