by phillipw | Mar 29, 2026 | FI, FL, LO, Uncategorized
The Field of Heaven’s Stars Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If we could harvest galaxies and stars, And constellations, burning, flaming orbs, And leave behind however many stars We dared to reap from...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2026 | CH, FI, FR, JO, Uncategorized
A Voice, not an Echo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Do not let someone else invade your core Identity. Do not let her or him Transpose the truest you or change your score. The serenade, the nocturne or...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Jul 19, 2025 | FI, LU, MO, PH, WI
Credo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We spit at heaven and the spit falls back And hits us in our eyes, though gobs of it Don’t blind us. Calicos inside a sack Will...
by phillipw | Oct 25, 2024 | FI, IN, MA, OB
Visibly Loud Emotion Recollected in Hostility Your thoughts (on seeing me) expand so proud Inside your skull that I can nearly see Their force despite the bone encasement, loud Enough for irises to file. Your spree Of ploys about me now revealed include A purple...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2024 | FI, Uncategorized
Remember Life and Death Are Indivisible — and That Means One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem First poems — and the last — let each one seize. If it’s the first, make sure...