by phillipw | Oct 2, 2026 | AL, BR, CH, DE, DI, GA, JE, LO, MI, MO
Paradiso and Inferno as Purgatorio Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You know that you have found the man when: Asphalt streets of dust before the rain Turn clear gold streets of God and you ban men Who do...
by phillipw | Sep 10, 2026 | DI, PR, SE
Spirals like Dante’s Circles of the Inferno Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Don’t let the beauty of the seashells fool You. Beauty is a scam. These gorgeous shells In shape of twirling trumpets or a...
by phillipw | Aug 8, 2026 | CA, CO, DI, PH, PR, RO
Sexual Thrills Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Though night comes on, the rich shoot pheasants still. The greed of riches stretches wide, more wide Than range of gloss on colors now, though chill The...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2026 | DI
Ruth and Maw Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What Wordsworth worships, Nature, will not stop Its gulps. Insatiable it just goes on and on With gobble, gobble, gobble. Agitprop From poets will not change...
by phillipw | May 21, 2026 | AN, DE, DI, GO, RE
Pilgrims at Terror Creek “There is no effort on my brow, I do not strive,* I do not weep; I rush with the swift spheres and glow In joy, and when I will, I sleep.” ~ Matthew Arnold [speaking in the voice of Nature], Mortality Decaffeinated nature...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2026 | DI, PH
Lovely Colored as Lucifer Before His Fall Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The pheasant, once a copper reptile, now A Buddha bird, encompasses the world. His beauty has a past of slaughter’s brow, Blood’s...
