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...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2025 | DE, GR, MO
Inappropriate Poison The oleanders blossom pinks and whites. Though grief does not have colors in its soul, It never turns to pink in satin rites Of death. The coffin wears a floral stole Of lavender , perhaps, though hardly pink, More priestly lavender. ...
by phillipw | Apr 7, 2025 | DE, DR
Glistening from His Lips Soft specters slip among the sliding spills Of water sent along the stream. We hear No screams from ghosts but each one causes chills For unsuspecting swimmers. Whispers clear The movement of the flowing so we do Not feel the threat...
by phillipw | Apr 5, 2025 | CH, DE, FL, ST
Pyrostegia venusta Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sometimes thinks he has a flame vine heart But maybe that is just hyperbole. His heart is only overgrown, each part Of its outside,...
by phillipw | Mar 17, 2025 | DE, RO
New England’s Sand-bound Coast Never mind Felicia Dorothea Hemans and Governor DeSantis In Maine the tides of histories are shown In waves and sand, yet strangely upside down. The past is in the foreground, sand waves sewn Along the coast, a grayness almost brown...
by phillipw | Mar 2, 2025 | DE, LO
He Tries to Turn His Back on Romeo — and Siegfried Sassoon Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He enters into something like a cage, A puzzle, more a labyrinth. His aim Is to abandon, almost in a...
