by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AU, DI, DO, EV, WI
Siniquity The cleansing of the temple and the deaths Of Ananias and Sapphira failed To scrub the world of all its worst bad breaths. Along came Donald tRUMP—and Hitler sailed To power. Pol Pot and Stalin rose to heights Of depths. Queen Mary burned the...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | DI, EM
The Gnome of Amherst Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem This gnome, who speaks in gnarled-down code and not In silk-like lengths in yarn (not knitted like The lines of others) and in which each knot She adds...
by phillipw | Oct 12, 2025 | BO, DI, EM
1775* ♫ Bobolink – song / call / voice / sound. I bet I know what you were thinking when You read that title: shots heard round the world And all that patriotic stuff, but men With guns on bridges never really swirled Around inside her brain of...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2025 | AN, DI
Pathetic Either Or and Cryogenics “Tomorrow I shall live (the fool will say); Today’s itself too late: the wise lived yesterday.” ~ Martial [T]he world is a monster. Any three-year-old can see how unsatisfactory and clumsy is this whole business of reproducing and...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2025 | AN, DI, PI
Praying Mantis Unlimited Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Glass globes with snow scenes in them are alone In holding innocence. No other space Shows equal calm. Most others whisper groan While...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2024 | DI, EM, GL, IN, SP
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem the music of the spheres (160) ‘The Last Transit of Venus’ for Glass Armonica – YouTube If I could fall forever through a space We can’t imagine,...
