by phillipw | Jan 27, 2020 | FR
Cast in the Mould of Eternal Flame The law corrects the imperfections, flaws, And weaknesses of individuals. It can’t perfect them. Make as many laws As you might frame and still residuals Of cussedness will thrive like tares among Genetically engineered crops. Tell...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2020 | FR
Philosophical Advice about Friendship Two thousand years ago and more smart men Began to write philosophy about Male friendship. What they wrote on scrolls, again, Again, again was that they had no doubt That perfect friendship could exist between Two perfect men of...
by phillipw | Jan 2, 2020 | AI, FR
Cuckoo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Love Me and Leave Me to Die . . . Carry On, Carry On” ………… The soundtrack for the plague of AIDS became The music...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | FR
Friendship, Higher “the sun was rising now in fellowship with the stars that had escorted it” …………………Dante, Inferno, Canto I, lines 38-39 It sounds like pure companionship outside The entry...
by phillipw | Dec 29, 2019 | FR
Baked Alaska Our friendship is a strange confection, as Substantial, insubstantial as the best Things always are. Its fragile surface has A lightness to it; a simple bride, dressed In satin, springs to mind (easily torn), And then beneath that shiny crust,...
by phillipw | Dec 27, 2019 | FR, WI
Oh, Fill my Veins with Sap of Curs! …..“and filleth with the blood of weeds” Oh, fill my veins with sap of curs! Distend My arteries with basest urges. Bloat My heart with commonest of strengths and send From it the humble lusts of ram and goat, Those fed on...
