by phillipw | Nov 18, 2025 | EP, FR, MA, ON, Uncategorized
No Matter How Golden the Beach or Blue and Deep and Wide the Ocean, Footprints are Needed An Ontological and Epistemological Sonnet “Know thyself” ~ the temple at Delphi If Friday left no footprints, would he be A Man? If Robinson had not been quite So lost in...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2025 | CH, FR, NO, Uncategorized
Chopin, Yet Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Chopin, despite the cataract of hair, Awes, not a poser. What he writes and plays Sings truth inside his skin. He is the heir To honesty...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | FR, NI, PH, PL
A Deaf Man Eavesdropping ~ a phrase from R. H. Blyth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Since Plato was a deaf man eavesdropping, We do not have to pay attention to That man. Philosophy went out shopping...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2025 | FR, GI, KA
The Lavender Lover in Her Throat Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My Karen had a voice of purple parts, Or violet, when singing in her sly Range alto. Velvet changed to gorgeous darts When Karen sang...
by phillipw | Feb 17, 2025 | FR, MO, TR
Fundamental Stuff Endangered species — sonnet, villanelle And triolet — are crushed out now by verse That’s “free,” where form and rhyme have gone to hell. If only this stuff tended to be terse . . . But, no, it dribbles,...
by phillipw | Jan 31, 2025 | FR, SI
Disappearing Dreams and AK-47 Daydreams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Forgetting most, he searches in between His dreams and in between his other dreams, His daydreams. Dreams are more like toluene...
