by phillipw | Oct 16, 2026 | AL, DE, GA, GR, HE, Ho, MA, MO
Queer Colors King Alexander had two colors for His eyes, one blue, one brown. His hair hung blond In curls, blond gloss upon them. To adore, He chose his childhood friend. From far beyond Came sobbing. Blond of royal hair spread wide And crammed the world with...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2026 | GR, KI
No Infrared or Seismic Communication Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The magnificence of Man, the sublimity of Nature, are seen as they really are, one thing.” ~ R. H. Blyth, Haiku, Summer-Autumn...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2026 | CH, FR, GR, LO, MA, ST
Incommunicado Grief For Charles Randall Stanfield The quick and the dead I wrote you sonnets. You were dead, though, then. I sat in Keats’s garden while I read Them into Hampstead wind. Among all men You were the only. In my heart and head Molasses had been...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | AN, GR, NE
Aspiring Gyre Held Together Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The triton seashells manifest as far More beautiful than Triton merman god Could ever be. Charonia, bizarre In shape and flare, a visual...
by phillipw | Aug 17, 2026 | CE, CR, GA, GR, LA, OL, SP
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity” ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Whatever can it be that people do When not composing poetry or songs, Sung sonnets,...
by phillipw | Jun 20, 2026 | AB, GR, YA
Higher Still Desires Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His graduation goes still higher, his height Increased by dance with mortarboard of black Flung high. From earth of foreign land his flight Soars...
