by phillipw | Feb 26, 2025 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
“Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me.” Hamlet, Act I, sc, v, 98 Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you were ghost and I were ghost with you, Would specter mouths be tempted, bringing lips...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2025 | CH, RE, WA
Skylarks Are Shot in France Despite Vaughan Williams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The skylark soars above the corpses on The battlefield of live doctrinal hate. There often has been one bright sunny...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2025 | BO, CH, SE
The Hometown Boys When men attempt to turn a nowhere place To poetry, the nowhereness bleeds through. The problem is the peopled childhood face, Once known, is sentimental, not quite true– If true at all. The boredom is ignored The way a woman does...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2025 | BO, CH, FL, Ho
Dulce et Floridum Est The hometown rocks the cradle of his dreams But not because he hankers for their claws To hold him close. He shies from nightmare streams Of snakes. A summer night-time insect gnaws Embedded in his memory. Spiders crawl Where...
by phillipw | Feb 15, 2025 | CH, ST, UN
Portent, Almost Would-be Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Another wind is blowing on the side Where you are, signalling silently and straight. On my side, here, the curving breezes glide And you...
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2025 | CH, SE
Perversion to Uncouth When families shun their sons, religion kills Whatever it can find. What faiths love best Entails the worst, Jesuitical skills To shunt the highest laws to sidelines, wrest Those laws away from central truths, and shrug Those principles...
