by phillipw | Jan 17, 2021 | AE, BE, DE, ES, HA, JO, PE
Sheer Vanity Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It isn’t just a little happy face, This flower, though fat and happy this one is. Because of gorgeousness and grinning grace, It glories in...
by phillipw | Jan 15, 2021 | AN, DE, FA, FI, GR, PE
Withered Chances When just a boy, he broke the beauty, broke A peony. Then later, decades on He still remembered how he felt the choke Of anger like the pain a marathon Participant endures when he sustained His father’s wrath. It rankled still beyond...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2021 | AE, BE, DE, ES, PE, PR
Dual Supplication against Death The flower burns its whitest white but not Alone. Beside it in the window glows A candle in the evening air so taut The flame burns on without a flicker. Those Who know the truth can see that light is light In spirit even when the...
by phillipw | Jan 9, 2021 | CH, DE, ST
The Christian Tree Surgeon The disappearance of a man who loved The trees he killed is life contained in brief. Hiked up among the limbs he chopped and, gloved To save his hands, he felt a smallish grief In sawing through to death. He sometimes fell And suffered...
by phillipw | Jan 9, 2021 | DE, LO, MO
Vanishing Truth Each meeting is the start of parting. Who He might become or who she might become, No matter what, what finally comes through Is vacuum. Each beauty will succumb. Your newborn son will grow and go away— And he will die. Perhaps you will...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2021 | DE, GO, GR, JE
A Sparrow Falls in Eternity He felt a small, one moment’s stress when he Rode past the fox in Slough. The coach swept by It, beautiful, quite orange. Divinity Would also have looked down from God-filled sky Since He is everywhere. He would have seen The...
