by phillipw | Nov 20, 2019 | DE, LO
The Death of Love The death of love numbs like paralysis Or like a tetanus infection in A purple vein, a poison sans its hiss, A serpent spurting venom lacking sin. This end has lain, lurked voiceless from the start Behind an evergreen, beside a rock, Unknowable to...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | DE, LI
Dreary Literary Theory There’s nothing quite so clear that scholars can’t Transmogrify it to opacity. There’s nothing academics won’t enchant Away to mud with their audacity. They do this with their stupid fancy words And jargon they deploy to make them seem More...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2019 | BE, DE, RO
Brevity is the Soul of Life Some flowers are more beautiful because They bloom so briefly, have so short a time To blossom, and then fade. These are the laws Of loveliness. These rules are not a crime Or even an expression of some wrong. They are an underlying fact...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | DE
A Timely Question “Have you thought about how long you’d like to inhabit your current body?” ~ Jaime Mathis, February 10, 2016 How long should I aspire to stay in this Old revenant–like form? It hasn’t had Rejuvenation vampires, cannot kiss Its way...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE, LU
The Gemini Known as All/Most Loves Are Lost Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible,...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | DE
The Zero beyond Omega My friend has entered something like a sphere, A universe as unified as God In green Jehovah’s Witness Bibles. Fear Is absent there, but so is love. It’s fraud To say it’s something else, some pleasant place Of solitude and quietness. It’s...
