by phillipw | Jun 16, 2024 | CR, FR, RO
Argument from Design A line of spider’s thread Cuts across the lily scene, Highjacking the flower. ~ Sujū (Englished by Phillip Whidden) A single thread of spider web across The scene displaces lily as the sight To see. The steel-like silk is ghostly floss...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2024 | CH, CR, RE, RO, TH
Gargoyles Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The gargoyles were created to display Some truth and not to ward off evil things. Perhaps grotesques were fashioned to betray The evils of the Church, the...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2024 | CR, MA, ME, VI
Damned Quixote Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When William Blake went mad, it was his soul That drove him to it. It was far too straight, As straight as light, unerring in its goal When...
by phillipw | Aug 22, 2022 | CR, PA
Occam’s Razor Answers the Question of Creation … ’Tis the Gift to be Simple and Sophisticated The ship, complex, is yet not like a whale With all its DNA. The many bits, The hull, the rudder, engine, or a sail, Together move across the sea that hits The bow...
by phillipw | Jul 6, 2022 | CR, SP, TR
I Saw Boys Playing Cricket . . . . . . in white upon a cricket ground today In Oxfordshire as if long centuries passed And made no difference. There I saw the sway Of bat. Tradition in a woollen cast, A cast, though supple as the hips and thighs Contained in...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2022 | AR, CR, CU, EJ, MA, OR, PU, SE, SP, UN, underarm hair, ZE
Cobalt and Amber: Prometheus Daydreaming Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If I could shape the first man, I would make Him cobalt blue, his eyes a Viking blue, His nose a righteous Grecian one to shake...
