by phillipw | Mar 26, 2024 | BO, CH
The Boy Jesus When Not Working in the Carpenter Shop Unthinking grace is like a child at play. The hummingbird in hover, April flight, Does not consider gracefulness in sway Of gorgeousness or whether beauty’s height Is being skated through the blossom air. The cat...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2024 | AR, CH, ET, FR
Étude in C Minor, Opus 25 no. 12 with Porphyry Shouts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Chopin étude rams the room with power, Arpeggios that swamp and swamp, then swamp The purple, pulsing chords,...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST
The Pleiades and the Church of the Savior Bing Videos When he has died, perfection throbs through all, Not just through him but also through a height Complete, distilled, sublimed. An Everest tall With peak of ice both see-through and pure white Like heaven’s...
by phillipw | Feb 22, 2024 | CH, ST, Uncategorized
For Charles Randall Stanfield on 71st His Birthday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If suns were smog and smog were suns, if fog Were clean and bright yet suns’ coronas dim Like haar, if deserts’ sun were...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | CH, FR, MA, ST
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Seventh Type of Ambiguity ~ William Empson A single photon passes through two slits At once, impossible, yet not quite so. The quantum...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2024 | CH, FO, HE, ME, SA, UN
No, Not Really The Christ will not ascend to heaven while One sinner screams in hell or close His gates. This absolute is known, or, if not, vile That Gospel truth of love since hellfire waits Forever and forever forcing God, Omniscient, to feel the...
