by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | DO, TR
Wearing a Triple Crown above America A menace rises like a tidal wave, A monster with the skin, blond hair and scales Of humanoid dragons from a cave Beneath the Dead Sea’s crust. Decency pales To superficiality of greed With gilt attempting to prevent our eyes From...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2020 | DO, TR
The Truth and Nothing but the Truth, God Help Us All “The lover of money is the root of tall evil.” ~ Jesus Christ The so-called President, Donald J. Dump- On-Everyone (everyone that is but The butt himself of course), was once the chump Who founded Trump...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | CA, DO
Flopsy, Mopsy, and Forgotten Tail Cats sleep all out. They have this genius. Flop They go. It’s as if Mohammed Ali Has knocked them loose and lifeless as a mop, Or sent their souls to Allah’s heaven. “Gee,” They seem to say, “I’ll just conk out right here, My...
by phillipw | Jan 25, 2020 | DO, LO
The Gemini Most loves are lost the moment they are born. Their DNA contains the genes to doom Devotion. Bonded chromosomes are torn, Though only slightly. They become love’s tomb As well, simultaneous the death and birth. Invisible, a corpse is there...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2019 | DO, WH
Donald Anthony Whidden She holds me on her lap, embracing with Her arm and hand my young boy ribs and blue Pajamas. It’s become a monolith— This portrait—packed with family meaning, true Or not. My brother leans against his dad, A cheek against that dark wool...
by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | DO, LO
The High Perch This calmness has a loveliness, though not Extreme as passion’s face in pain called bliss. Serenity has settled on the plot Of soil that used to thrive with thrills amiss But now is as a sacred garden, walled. A steadiness (caressing,...
