by phillipw | May 3, 2026 | EM
Pay Attention to the Flowers Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Let not one flower of spring go past your eye Unseen. Let not one rose of June go past Unsmelled. Let every lilac leave its dye Of purple,...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2026 | BO, DI, EM, RE, TI, Uncategorized
The Opposite of Bindings Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Whoever sitteth on this carpet and willeth in thought to be taken up and set down upon other site will, in the twinkling of an eye, be borne...
by phillipw | Feb 19, 2026 | BE, EM, PH, PO
Philosophy’s Cave Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Philosophy, the enemy of Keats, Is like an axe to kill that Eden tree, The Tree of Life. The poets, they are cheats, Spews Plato, while they...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2026 | DI, EM
Mother Superior Marries a Millefeuille Muse Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We do not have an image of her with Her smile. Perhaps this fact, sum zero fact, Has driven her vast anchoress-scene myth....
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...
