by phillipw | Apr 16, 2025 | CA, DE, Uncategorized
Malagueñas The music of the tavern comes on black Flamenco stallions. Horseshoes cause the banged Out rhythm. Death is seldom Spanish slack Though always sweatless. Drinkers are harrangued With songs that rise from olive groves too old To...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2025 | CA, PR, SE
The Freeze-dried Tale His heart is like a freeze-dried cherry in A box of cereal for lovers to Devour, as accidentally in sin Between the sheets, as casually they chew Him, breakfast in his bed. He nourishes Their greediness for cherry-ness in flesh. For him their...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2025 | BR, CA, FL, IN, OR, TI
Sebastian Florida Essences Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Lift up the orange blossoms in your mind, The orange petals in their dark green grove. Lift up the fragance of the flowers behind His childhood...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2025 | BI, CA
Perfect Pearls and Baroque Pearls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The rivers of Granada and of Spain Above it, like the Guadalquivir, feed Naranjas and olives, leave a stain Of beauty in the hearts...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2025 | CA, ME, TR
A Life As Though on Vellum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His life was filled with little monsters, not Much more, not cancer and no earthquake, no War. Monsters for this man were no more fraught With...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2025 | BR, CA, MA, WH
Miracle of Modern Medicine and Demonic Itching It crept along inside her like a long- Lost angel Jesus couldn’t cure. The wretch At worst had withered wings and lost its song. Inside her breast the devil couldn’t stretch And couldn’t fledge its arrows. They could...
