by phillipw | Sep 23, 2019 | CH, FR, ST
What to Do with a Dead Friend He keeps intruding sharply in my mind, My heart, and dreams. No, more in reverie Than nightmares, which is how dreams are defined Now. Visions which come floating back to me In daylight hours—reminding, say, of his Guitar and...
by phillipw | Sep 23, 2019 | FR, OL, TR
Free Travel Passes for Dirty Old FФckers The major problem with the travel pass Is that it packs the coaches with old folk Like me. Of course it pains me to be crass, But, bluntly, frankly no one with egg yolk Hair, auburn, carrot top, or even brown (Or brilliant...
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,...
