by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | CH, MY, ST
Saint Teresa of Avila Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His thoughts were as a mystic dreams alone And maybe, thus, a pure validity. His loves were like a many legged, high throne That rules a cosmos of...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2026 | CH, DR, FR, MA, NI, Sonnet, ST
To Sleep Above the Sky Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I’m never quite sure my thoughts will take me. All I can do is follow them.” ~ Michel de Montaigne “A thought went up my mind today” ~ Emily...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2026 | CH, GA, LO, RO, SE, ST
That First Fragrance Before Incense Was Ever Imagined Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem That air that doesn’t wish to be some thing It isn’t, like the first time that you smelled Him in the...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2026 | CH, LO, RO, SE, ST
Twenty-four Carat Uncaring Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His hair reduced to ashes blames the Christ Whom he presumed to love and who he thought Loved him, but then that God performed the heist Of life...
by phillipw | Oct 2, 2026 | AL, BR, CH, DE, DI, GA, JE, LO, MI, MO
Paradiso and Inferno as Purgatorio Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You know that you have found the man when: Asphalt streets of dust before the rain Turn clear gold streets of God and you ban men Who do...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2026 | CH, FR, GR, LO, MA, ST
Incommunicado Grief For Charles Randall Stanfield The quick and the dead I wrote you sonnets. You were dead, though, then. I sat in Keats’s garden while I read Them into Hampstead wind. Among all men You were the only. In my heart and head Molasses had been...
