by phillipw | Aug 6, 2024 | CL, PO, WA
Classic Roman Marble Walls are Not Poetry. Monet Water Lilies Framed upon Them Are Not Poetry. Poetry is Made to Spill. Soul is Never Still. and Art May Be Degraded But Is Not Defeated or Transient: paired sonnets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2024 | CL, JA, LO, NE, SA
New Orleans Drinking Whiskey Neat that which halts itself dreams. ~ Lorca, “Running” (“Corriente”) A sonnet lends a pause. It brings a halt To Tuesday stuff. It enters...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2023 | AM, AN, CL, ID, PE
The Ideal Refuses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Greeks never showed the Amazon with one Breast chopped away in marble. Beauty’s shape Flowed lacking flaws. Greek teachings all...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2023 | CL, JO, Uncategorized
Can Freedom Be a Creed? So…never mind twinned paradox (yet not Just two-word oxymoron). “Freedom ruled,” Is what the English peasant poet taught. This writer did not need his knowledge schooled. John Clare, he should have been called Clear. ...
by phillipw | Aug 11, 2021 | CL
Intelligent Music and the Unforeseen Chord The height of music comes to hearts refined. The strength of it is how it cannot be Predicted. Next accords to reach the mind Are guessed but then comes serendipity. A harmony the soul desires becomes A better beauty. ...
by phillipw | Jun 28, 2021 | AM, CL, EI, HA, JA, KO, PA, VA
Haiku Paradox The Korean boat does Not pause. Sails cause it to pass, But where in this haze? ~ Buson Forking into mist A stream on the moor is vague And clear, both, at once. ~ Shirao An odd boat, foreign in its shape, slips past, Korean in its shape and...
