by phillipw | Sep 9, 2024 | CH, OL
Colossal Crimes Called Civilization Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Heroic heads of hammered stone lay vast Beneath the steaming soil for centuries, held In secret hiding from us all a past...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2024 | BI, CH, CL, DE, ME
Melancholia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dreams reach out as branches from the trunk And try to scratch the brain from far inside. More bark-clamped than a deep-celled troubled...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2024 | CH, ST
Beyond the Veil Avoiding ghost temptations to go through The curtain made of voile of silk between The living and the other side, to you Where you are, she pretends that heaven’s sheen Surrounds you now. This helps her camouflage The truth about the man...
by phillipw | Aug 23, 2024 | CH, RO, ST, Uncategorized
Mass Loaded Vinyl Cage Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sings, a member in the burning rungs Of seraphim stacked high around the throne Of passion. Fizzing, flaming,...
by phillipw | Aug 18, 2024 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
The Force of Dreams I dreamed of you last night. I dreamed and dreamed, Yet more, as if there never had been dreams In me till then. Reality it seemed Had never been reality. Green dreams Of Eden never could have been like you There in this night of...
by phillipw | Aug 16, 2024 | CH, ST
“wind, and fire” “upon this blasted heath” The wind goes spying through the oak trees. What It looks for is not known, but surely not A secret hiding place, a nissen hut For raising weed, and surely not a thought I lost one twilight long...
