by phillipw | Aug 20, 2022 | CH, DE
Cherry Petals and Bronze The temple bell resounds right through the white Of cherry blossoms making them more pale, Transparent almost. They become more slight. The sound rings sacred, making them a veil For death since April clothes herself in doom. Their...
by phillipw | May 9, 2022 | CH, HA, JA, PO
Burden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem All the cherry blooms I saw today have become A pink load on me. ~ Sobaku [freely and unfreely paraphrased by Whidden] Sobaku’s postscript to his painitng...
by phillipw | May 1, 2022 | CH, GE, JE, Uncategorized
“The Very Stones Will Cry Out” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Contemplative are agates, geodes too, And also quartz within them. All are filled With meditation colored with the blue Of...
by phillipw | Apr 28, 2022 | CH, JE
“The Universe, the Mind of God” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The leech that falls from trees in Nippon sucks From animals and humans blood. This leech Falls down and finds the flesh and then...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2022 | CH, FI, LO, SE, ST, UN
April, August, Autumn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We both flirt April with each other, you And I, at first. The clouds, if any, rise In white and seem not tinged except with blue, Perhaps...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2022 | BR, CH, GA, Ho, LA, LO, RU
Wider Still and Wider from the Earth “And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish.” ~ Rupert Brooke The fancies of that young one, Rupert Brooke, Were wider than “just” girls and women. He Liked those—and more. The autumn hair that...
