by phillipw | Oct 11, 2026 | CA, CO, FR, JO, KE, LO, MA
Nameless Blossoms Reign Supreme Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter” I wear real flowers he gave me in my head. He bought them, really, in a pot beside...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2026 | CH, DR, FR, MA, NI, Sonnet, ST
To Sleep Above the Sky Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I’m never quite sure my thoughts will take me. All I can do is follow them.” ~ Michel de Montaigne “A thought went up my mind today” ~ Emily...
by phillipw | Oct 5, 2026 | DE, FR, MA
Montaigne sans La Boétie Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One void is absolute though it can be Particular. The void of death is all If brought to you alone in amité. The loss of one, just one is lover’s...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2026 | CH, FR, GR, LO, MA, ST
Incommunicado Grief For Charles Randall Stanfield The quick and the dead I wrote you sonnets. You were dead, though, then. I sat in Keats’s garden while I read Them into Hampstead wind. Among all men You were the only. In my heart and head Molasses had been...
by phillipw | Sep 28, 2026 | FR, LO, MA
An Arsenal of Heavy Metal Miracles Inside the Atria and Ventricles “O friends, there is no friend.” ~ Diogenes Laertius A bombshell blasting made of misery, Exploding misery is what he feels. The bomb that he experienced falls free Of love, of friendship. Mostly men...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2026 | FR, MA, PH, RO
Friends With and Without Benefits, a Rival in Arms Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A pair of blue green eyes and half a smile Hid half of hatred in the friendship, — love, — Whatever. Friendship’s by a...
