by phillipw | Dec 2, 2025 | DI, VO, WO
Locked Up Like Lucifer in Hell Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He gropes for that immortal active verb, That one you know, that every lover knows, The total verb just waiting to disturb The mortal gods...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | BR, CO, DE, DI, MA, WH
Stepping Into the Ambulance that Would Take Her to the Thames Valley Hospice Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden When I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ Shakespeare, Othello “Courage is life, living. Life is change; change is suffering; the will to...
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...
