by phillipw | Oct 20, 2026 | AL, AR, DE, HA, TE
Permeable Realities, No Distinction, not Actually “And after that the dark!” ~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson “Has crush’d thee here” ~ Charles Tennyson Turner, “On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book” It seems sometimes that life and death break through Each other,...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2026 | HA, JA, SE
Duality as Unity The purity of peonies is marred In Japanese imagination . . . by Two brothers who opted to disregard The beauty lives had brought them. Duty’s sly Demands for Emperor required them . . . to Commit twinned harikari after loss In battle. Once the...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2026 | GH, HA, WR
Come Away, Come Away, Come Away Home Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The wraiths belong to staircase places, trapped, Cannot tread up or down. Wraiths’ steps are lost. The stairs are lost. No ghostly...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2026 | GO, HA, IM, LO, SU, VE
After Xanadu the Muteness of My Heart Crying for Lucifer Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “If only,” says the lover, “I could dream Again the words of reverie in sleep, If I could capture in my chest the...
by phillipw | May 23, 2026 | CH, EA, HA, WA
His Gifts as Though in Bethlehem or Bodh Gaya Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “It will hardly be denied that even in this frail and corrupted world, we sometimes meet persons who, in their very mien and...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2026 | HA, HE, MI
The Brevity of Erato’s Emotions Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Imagination’s sea has haar upon It. If the sun is setting, then a red Embraces mist, yet if the sun in dawn Is wooing haze, then varied...
