by phillipw | Jan 1, 2026 | CO, FA, FU, PE
The Journey and the Goal He stuck his joystick, full, inside the hole. He used the instrument to choose the way To go, directions, speed and slowed control. He used a masterful and swaggering sway And gentle entry and re-entry for New thrills. He moved it more to...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2025 | AS, DE, FA, RE
Nothing is Cleaner Gone Than Yesterdays Slower days passing— Gathering up—distant Are things of the past. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Not anything comes slower than the past. The distance of all yesterdays is huge, More distant than the Milky Way is...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2025 | DA, FA, RE
Nagging Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “laugh and go” ~ “I Meant to Do My Work Today,” Richard Le Gallienne Life feels the force of fact and right behind It follows fantasy. The...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2025 | FA, GO
The Prince and the Goblins Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He did not really want to be a prince, But there you have it. He cannot undo His father’s raptures in the queen or rinse Away the off-white...
by phillipw | Dec 1, 2025 | AU, DE, FA
Fall? But what if it’s an autumn leaf? Can you Lean back to April and the early spring? If so, the challenge will be making new From withered old. The leaf may be a wing October soon will send across the chill Of air, Vermont in varying leaf veins Of yellow,...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2025 | FA, RE, TR
Over the Rainbow “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living,...
