by phillipw | Sep 3, 2025 | DE, LI, LO, LY, SO, ST
Never Mind Astrophel and Stella Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem http://www.phillipwhidden.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/star-exploding-208576_large.mp4 If sonnets are supposed to be about Love,...
by phillipw | May 18, 2025 | BE, DE, Uncategorized
The Indian Restaurant Delivery Van and No Transmigration When I am gone like Bene, staring wide My eyes, when I am gone like Bene, gone Where he went, we will be where deaths divide And never bring us close. Agamemnon Stares, eyes in slits of gold, but in the dark...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2025 | DE, VA
Entropy’s Final Nothing Millennia before I died, the time Before me stretched far backward . . . backward — far The eons lay in lifeless silence. Slime Began to grow as if with plans. A star Looked down and saw no life. Some cells appeared Inside some mud,...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2025 | BR, DE, FL, TI
Twilight, No Morning Star Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sunset croons a lullaby to trees In rows of dark . . . then darker green. The sun Goes down on orange blossoms in a breeze As warm as...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2025 | DE, Uncategorized
Death versus Poetry’s Continuing Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Death looks for me among the orange groves where I lived my childhood nights and days. I left Them long ago, their seaweed...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2025 | CA, DE, Uncategorized
Malagueñas The music of the tavern comes on black Flamenco stallions. Horseshoes cause the banged Out rhythm. Death is seldom Spanish slack Though always sweatless. Drinkers are harrangued With songs that rise from olive groves too old To...
