by phillipw | Mar 9, 2026 | AE, AN, BE, BL, ES, SE
Twenty-four Carat Sapphire-colored Songs If God made angels blue, both blue and gold In wing, blue haired, but lavender in robe, Of course they might look far too sky-blue cold And so in yellow light He might englobe Them, warming them in heaven’s airs. The sea That...
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2026 | AE, BE, ES, HI, LA, LO, MO, Uncategorized, VI
A Trinity of Beauties Female and Male Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Where Lakshmi lies, see beauties all complete, Replete abundance and prosperity. She holds her pure perfection in her suite (Of...
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...
