by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | DE, RO, SE
That Deeper Calendar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The songs of love live stronger than the songs Of seasons. Lancelots and Guineveres Go singing through the souls. Their love belongs In every age,...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2025 | AS, DE, FA, RE
Nothing is Cleaner Gone Than Yesterdays Slower days passing— Gathering up—distant Are things of the past. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Not anything comes slower than the past. The distance of all yesterdays is huge, More distant than the Milky Way is...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2025 | AU, DE, LE
Ambiguity People are few. October leaves also fall, Here, there, now and then. ~ Issa [Englished by Phillip Whidden] The people come and go. As symbols they Lack wings unlike black Lucifer or God. The people are far fewer in the day Than leaves that flutter, wings...
by phillipw | Dec 17, 2025 | DE, Uncategorized
Rigor Mortis: Religions Remain Rigidly Wrong Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The list that life provides is brief, not strange. It’s ultra certain: two its items. One Need not be named. The other one...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | AU, DE, FA
Fall? But what if it’s an autumn leaf? Can you Lean back to April and the early spring? If so, the challenge will be making new From withered old. The leaf may be a wing October soon will send across the chill Of air, Vermont in varying leaf veins Of yellow,...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | AM, DE, PO
Poetry Means Irradiated Mist and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The point of poetry is mist inside The mind. The poetry itself is not A smog but poetry requires its bride To wear a veil. What...
