by phillipw | Oct 21, 2026 | CH, EA, IS, LO, PE, SH
Preacher Paradox To the white candle The white peony is death, Moving still as death. ~Kyoroku [Englished by Phillip Whidden*] ~ Ecclesiastes 1:2 The peony and candle both seem still, But “seeming” never/always still contains Un(numb)ered movements. Particles feel...
by phillipw | Oct 21, 2026 | AM, BI, CH
In Vain Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full” ~ Ecclesiastes 1:7 His heart was not quite written on the lake Of loss, lost memory, or upon the sea Of...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2026 | CH, ST
Sabbath Evening Love Feast Becomes a Fresher Pentecost White peonies bloom: It seems no other blossoms Spread petals near them. ~ Kitchi [Englished by Phillip Whidden] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ~ John Keats This truth is higher than this April youth. He holds...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2026 | CH, SE, ST
The Feed The willow leans, bends Her darkening bosom over Anther of the bloom. ~ Basho [Englished by Phillip Whidden] We hesitate to think how many breasts Of women bent above his heart to take Him in below, how many begging chests With bobbling nipples then began to...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2026 | CH, ST
Scarface “In the image of God created he him” I will knock at your Gate in the darkness where white Petals disappear. ~ Kyorai [Englished by Phillip Whidden] I wish I had a scar across my face, A scar to force me always to recall You, hardness of your profile,...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2026 | CH, ST
“almost mad with ecstasy” ~ Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation A man of limbs, a man of limbs and limbs Who cut through limbs and cut through life, appeared As if theophany, he requiring hymns. Not quite theophany he disappeared In lightning’s flash, slashed in...
