by phillipw | Sep 9, 2021 | EN, ME
A Butterfly Rests upon the Chapel Bell Inside the young monk’s mind a butterfly Has settled on the monastery bell. The novice has been trained to use his eye, His spiritual pupil, let it dwell On just one image for an insight in His room. The hermit settles on a...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2021 | EN, IS, RE, SA
No Separation from the Holy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The soul becomes disturbed when it returns From ecstasy. Ask Saint Teresa or Saint Francis. Spirit memory still burns Like coals that touch...
by phillipw | Jul 12, 2021 | EA, EN, SA
Truth He feels the unity of everything, A moment as eternity unchanged By being brief. This loneliness on wing Is also fullness, emptiness arranged As richness in a vision sent along Wide valleys. It is like a breathing out That is a breathing in; a...
by phillipw | Jun 30, 2021 | EN
Ten to the One Hundredth Power Years from Now* When all has turned to nothing more than rays Of radiation, and, not even that, Just radiation not in glowing ways That people think of light, the final splat Will be unthinkably enormous, stretched Out trillions and...
by phillipw | Jun 28, 2021 | BO, EN, EP, HA, IN, RE, SA, UN
They Hold their Hats in Deference in their Hands Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Two men are bowing at the crossroads to Each other. Though already distant they Grow fainter even as they set off...
by phillipw | Jun 7, 2021 | EN
Where We Ought to Be Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem At times we feel like God. At times we feel Like us, just humans, men and women, not Like God. At times, though this is quite surreal, We...
