by phillipw | May 22, 2026 | DE, FI, Ho, WO
Chine-jo’s Death Haiku . How easily it Glows, easily it goes out, The fire-fly blink. ~ Chine-jo [Englished by Phillip Whidden] . The worker bee goes out; comes in from bloom To bloom; from hour to hour. She brings Her nectar; brings it; finds an eight-sides room To...
by phillipw | May 5, 2026 | FA, FI, PR, SE
Brothers with Single Lenses or with Multiple Lenses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I had three. Two of them were dragonflies, And one a flitting butterfly. The two Sat down with certainty; each found...
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...
