by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | CH, DI, GO, ST
TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I passed again that notice board today, The one displaying clever Christian quips That used to make me want to...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | CH, LO, OR, RO, ST
Orlando Sanford International Airport Not just the eyes, but lashes too: the young One there behind the check-in desk has hearts- Stopping eyes and lashes, black, highly strung Sublimity of beauty to launch hard parts Of anyone who yearns for grace, launched to...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | CH, ST
Years of Daydreams while Far Away Withered How plants quite disappear when they have lost Their petals and perfume is like the way You faded from my life. As if a frost, A full and lengthy one, attacked in May, You devastated beauty with your drugs And drink. I came...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | BL, BR, CH, DE, ST, TH, TR, Uncategorized, VI
Inhalers Created for Chuck one day before the anniversary of his birth. “When her doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who was no longer blind saw “the tree with the lights in it.” It was for this tree I searched through the...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | BU, CH, HI, Uncategorized
Exilium Vita Est—Life is Exile Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Christians have it that our lives are ways Of pilgrimage to take us on to where Souls yearn to be. We stumble through a maze Art of JR...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | AN, CH, FR
Full of Elegance and Truth: Fra Angelico’s Annunciation in the Prado [Look at the painting first? Go to the blue link immediately below. In case you don’t already know, Mary is nearly always dressed in red (because of Christ’s Passion)...
