by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | AR, BE, BL, BR, DE, JE, PH
Jeanette in Black and White Modern poetry modern vers contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Her eyes cast down as if ashamed of style And beauty, she is captured. She is held Forever in fixed falseness. All the while This...
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...
