by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | BO, CY, GA, Ho, JE, LO, SY
How the Cypress Came to Be Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sylvanus loved the boy and gave a gift To Cyparissus, gave the boy a doe. He doted on it. Then the truest shift Occurred. Sylvanus killed it...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | GA, HE, JE, SE
Wife Beating: Gore and Poetry The Greeks came up with a quite a novel cause For beating wives. The men of Thrace attacked Their wives because they whacked a poet. Claws (Well, jealous fingernails) tore up and hacked To death the world’s greatest singer. They Were...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2019 | GA, Ho, LO, RI, VE
Letter to his Wife They suffered from a passion like their loins Ripped open, full of pain, and gushing life Out like the plastic chips, the bastard coins (More costly than the infant Paul or wife) From this combined Las Vegas slot-machine Affair. The older...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2019 | GA
Contradiction in Free Sperms Now why should marriage be the thing that nabs Top billing? It’s a mere pact written out In lace and flowers. Frilled legality grabs The spotlight. Doubtlessly there’ll be a pout Among the drama queens upstaged, the mums And dads who...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2019 | GA, PA
The Second Coming Perversions like when violence becomes Male bravery are worst. When honor slides To murder beaten into shape by drums, Then whitest principle on horseback rides Across the Muslim children in a ward. The Holocaust stalks from the Temple Mount And...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2019 | GA, GL, KI, PA
Alone and Unsupported Within our little lifetimes heroes rose More great than Heracles, and greater than Achilles’ myth. John Glenn and Yuri froze Out Jason in his little Argo. Man Leapt up beyond the earth, up past the sky, Beyond the stratosphere, where...
