by phillipw | Jun 22, 2024 | CA, DE, DI
Prospero Wiser than Ageing Phillip My Prospero, it turns out, naps below The roses in front garden border. He Doesn’t know I think that this is no Good way for health. For years my order he Heard. “Stay out back among the other flowers,” He heeded. Recently...
by phillipw | Jun 20, 2024 | AU, DE, LI, PE, Uncategorized
An After-sunset Avenue in Montpelier, Vermont Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Linda Pervier The arc lights in the darkness of the street Create an eeriness in time. The leaves Fall through them...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2024 | DE, IT, MA
Dementing Torture of Benign Drugs against Malignancy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His life came to its End. Smell of the medicine Departs chillingly....
by phillipw | Mar 18, 2024 | BR, DE, OR, TI
Winged Deer Tongue on a Sunless Tuesday Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Deer tongue leaves The local council mowed the grass along The edge where buses come and go. My scooter drives me past and...
by phillipw | Jan 21, 2024 | AB, AE, BE, DE, ES, PH, Uncategorized, YA
Awe of the Heavenly Bodies Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The moon would kill to have a face the shape And beauty that yours shows, the smoothness, force, The splendor of your dazzle with escape...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2023 | DE, RO
Pastel Death The petals, lavender and pink and white, Have fallen, fallen on each other, by Each other, making little heaps here slight And heaps there slighter, as they fell to die Beneath the living bushes and the flowers Alive above these ones. ...
