by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | BU, DU, GE, PA, US
Amputee on Inauguration Day: A Sonnet Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Wrapped up in strictest red and white and blue The tight Marine snaps out a straight salute. His brute, square jaw imprisoning, and...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | DO, GE, HE, NI, RI, TR, WA
What Really Matters Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Heroic happenings in legends bear A factuality more sacred than Plain data. The cutting of Samson’s hair Is consequential to his threatened clan...
by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | CH, GE
Geoffrey Chaucer Lived on Vellum When the Dukes Had Died “By 1386 he had written more than half of his poetry, a body of work sufficient to establish him as the greatest English writer before Shakespeare…. He wrote not for hire or on command or, most...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | CO, GE, PE
Big Time Censorship Perhaps you’ve noticed how the statues leave Out any sight of god Apollo’s junk. The artists think that we are too naïve To know the god, presented as a hunk, Had no enraged erection in the scene. They always put a piece of fabric or His...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | CO, DA, GE, LE, MA, OR, PE, VI
The Heart is Never Central Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The heart is never central. It is to The left and far too far above the base. The heart is not positioned for the true. It loves too much the...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | DU, GE, SA
Long after Chopin’s Death George Sand, It Seems, Destroyed 200 Letters Returned to her by Chopin’s Sister, Letters Sand had Sent to Him The problem with bone china is how heart- Breaking in its loveliness it tends to Be, the beauty of the finest fragile part Of...
