by phillipw | Sep 3, 2024 | DE, Uncategorized
Gravity Bends Galaxies’ Light Even on Curly Black Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because you slipped forever into death, A sleep forever darker than mere sleep, An ebony more black than stone, no...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2024 | BI, CH, CL, DE, ME
Melancholia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dreams reach out as branches from the trunk And try to scratch the brain from far inside. More bark-clamped than a deep-celled troubled...
by phillipw | Jul 16, 2024 | AM, AN, DE, HA, PO, PR
Delphi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem To die while the dew Is yet undried, that would have Meaningless meaning. ~ Kōyō [Englished and twisted by Phillip Whidden; the more correct...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2024 | CA, DE, OX, PA, PR
Shade The quiet, silent things send echoes through Each other. Rosebush leaves above the tom That naps beneath them are more quiet, strew Their silence down, reverberating calm On nearly silent breathing through his two Pink nostrils held by...
by phillipw | Jun 23, 2024 | BU, CR, DE, MO
Too Late to Understand the Reality वास्तविकता का एहसास होने में बहुत देर हो चुकी है। Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Cut out my shadow. Free me from the torture of seeing myself fruitless. ~ Lorca,...
by phillipw | Jun 22, 2024 | CA, DE, DI
Prospero Wiser than Ageing Phillip My Prospero, it turns out, naps below The roses in front garden border. He Doesn’t know I think that this is no Good way for health. For years my order he Heard. “Stay out back among the other flowers,” He heeded. Recently...
