by phillipw | Sep 21, 2019 | FR
Patriotism and Pals ……………..Francis Bacon, Wikipedia 0 Francis Bacon, author of two early English essays on friendship, played a major legal role in the trial of his friend, the Earl of Essex, helping to get him...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2019 | FR
All Embracing Love Men’s love called friendship is reduced to true Cupidity dressed up in affection– Or so says Nietzsche. It is carved down to A South Seas cuisine of male confection, A sort of cannibalism in which The two sit down to swallow their...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2019 | AU, FR
How Green the Autumn Is How green the autumn is… true, oranges, reds, High yellows do their shouting thing; the greens Just hum along, as if on calming meds. Photographers scout round for fevered scenes To print with glossy flair. The subtleties Of varied shades of...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | FR
Five Friendship Sonnets Best at a Distance Some say that friendship’s realm is nowhere but Nostalgia. Love of man for man exists In regions where the friend is absent, shut Out, exiled, say, or better dead, subsists On mourning, loss,...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | FR
October Heights For Carl The autumn sweeps across Vermont again As flame-shaped hills define the distant days. Once more I live in exile–and the pain Of frosted air and leaves and dawns of haze Creates the landscape of my memories. There will not be another...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2019 | FR
Prezioso The pain of losing you began to swell Like hints of seismic tremors underground; Like healthy lungs starting to . . . feel unwell . . . To send some unknown poisons all around A heart that hurts before the wound is dealt. Inside the chest a...
