by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | ET, HU, OX, PA
While Still at Eton He Became the Youngest Ever to Take a Bachelor of Music at Oxford University His Eton life was one variety Upon another. Many genres came From him. He almost had a piety About his football, playing every game (Or nearly), ending senior keeper of...
by phillipw | May 25, 2020 | ET, HU, MU, PA
A Lively Hope– A sonnet sequence on the childhood, Eton College years, and music of Sir Hubert Parry [FOR AN ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF THIS SONNET SEQUENCE GO TO https://classicalpoets.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/A-Lively-Hope.pdf where it was first...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | DI, ET, FR, LA, MA, MI, MO
The Best Kind of Friend Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “ ‘Happy is the man who has dear children and sound horses and hunting hounds and a friend abroad…’ Solon, F23 (West)” ~ Robin Lane Fox,...
by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | ET, FR, LA, NI
Nietzsche Negation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Steel repetition trumps. Unnerved before Men’s ecstasy, rosaries cannot deny The urge for semen, chanting still the whore. Adultery invades the...
by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | CH, ET, LO, PO, ST
Entropy When all my poetry is mixed with death And washed away in that encroaching tide, The memory of the man who breathed my breath Will be forgotten even more. The glide To blankness is implacable . . . and so No person will recall the lines or...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | CH, ET, FR, HE, Ho, LO, MA, ST
More Like Lightning He argued that her face was full of faults But perfect beauty was their startling end. Those imperfections listed were the vaults To her immaculate and lovely blend Contending with a theoretical Ideal. My lover, though, was more than that. His...
