by phillipw | Feb 18, 2026 | AE, AP, BE, BY, CH, ES, LU, MA, RA, UM
Male Gaze Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You see the people in the April rain. Perhaps they are umbrellas, not much more To you, or raincoats. They are like a stain On retinas and not much more. They...
by phillipw | Jan 22, 2026 | AE, AL, ES
True Beauty Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem True beauty hovers, shapes that want your form To fill them. Instantly you feel them throb Inside soul’s marrow or more like a storm Of Birds of...
by phillipw | Jan 17, 2026 | DE, ES, SE
Stronger than the Impossible Situation Houdini Escaped From Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem This morning of this spring just passed is past. It always can’t return, not ever. Then The day when it’s...
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2025 | AE, BE, ES, Ho
Epic Similes as Nectar Among Thorns “A poem of any length neither can be, nor ought to be, all poetry.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Litteraria “ ‘Why did the whole Greek world exult over the combat scenes in the Iliad?’ asks Friedrich Nietzsche. We modern...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | AE, BE, ES, Uncategorized
In Met Miss Universe in a Diamond Tiara Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The butterfly flapped Away, was gone. My spirit Came back inside me. ~ Wafû The way a comet feels the pull of weight In weightless...
by phillipw | Sep 18, 2025 | ES, M, PH
The Ultimate Equation a la Escher Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Imagine you could see yourself as God Sees you. Imagine that your eyes could see As if they might go far beyond an awed Enlightenment in...
