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...
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,...
by phillipw | Jan 2, 2024 | EM, SE, WI
Exponential Nuance Z = Z2 + C When meaning’s sense transforms from words like notes Do when they turn to melody with chords, The harmonies with rhyming rhythms, throats And instruments all blending widely towards That certainty which saints and...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2021 | EM, Ho, KE, LU
What Movie Stars Can Never Be Enchantment is a slavery to stars Of sweatless screens, the cinema, tv, Or Netflix, or on smartphones. Out on Mars Stars walk around, and though that’s stupid, we Watch on. We know that we are lacking like Some Sad Sack clown. An...
