by phillipw | Nov 20, 2025 | CH, Uncategorized
Character like tRUMP’s Shouts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “What you are speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson You know the kind of person, wife or friend, That...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | CH
Directions to Nowhere The “Chinese in free, hither and thither wandering that nevertheless goes to the goal; Egyptian in resolute march down the path once entered.” ~ Oswald Spengler, “Symbolism and Space,” IV The Chinese being Oriental flop About in mists’...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2025 | CH, DA
Darwin as Dominie There’s really no such thing as self-control, Free will and all that sort of thing. The brain Has hormones in it. It is like a bowl With soup and spices in it. Hormones stain Us where they spill. They want to be free will. At least they’re...
by phillipw | Oct 27, 2025 | AD, BR, CH, CR
“One world at a time” ~ Henry David Thoreau Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Crown of thorns with breathing diamonds Too many of the world’s religions, faiths, Philosophies (like Buddha’s) spurn square...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2025 | AM, CH, FE, HE, RE
A Faith’s Pure Shrine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem That rhyming verse which makes a big romance Of stuff besmirches truest poetry. It’s like Gestapo jackboots in a dance On heaps of bones...
