by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | GR, ST, Uncategorized
The Motto at Dephi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Escape the feudal clamps upon your soul, The Marxist ones in Cuba, moneyed ones At Mar a Lago. Leave your begging bowl If you are like the...
by phillipw | Aug 4, 2025 | GR, HE
B.C. Polyclitus and Praxiteles Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Thou art a man, God is no more, Learn thy own Humanity to adore.” ~ William Blake The Greeks were onto it before the Christ Appeared. ...
by phillipw | Jul 16, 2025 | BA, CO, FA, GR, VE
Metallic Extrusion The barn sits red beneath a silvery roof And tries to call up memories of the time When it contained the gentle step of hoof Of soft-breathed cows, but modern farming crime Has jammed the cows in separate pens alone Except for cows...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2025 | DE, GR, MO
Inappropriate Poison The oleanders blossom pinks and whites. Though grief does not have colors in its soul, It never turns to pink in satin rites Of death. The coffin wears a floral stole Of lavender , perhaps, though hardly pink, More priestly lavender. ...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2025 | AE, ES, GR, PO, W
Attention-seeking Brat like Rimbaud “he never will be missed” ~ The Mikado A poet (!) says that language traps him tight. I mean, my GAWD, that’s through the looking glass. I might accuse him, saying he is trite, Except I know the truth. ...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2024 | CA, GR
Kabibi Love and Flowers and Other Things Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Kabibi came to me the first day of My teaching in that Great Rift Valley school. At first I did not know how much my...
