by phillipw | May 16, 2020 | AN, HA
Pearly White for Femininity, Dark Red for Masculine Loveliness She tried to look her best and those who cared About her paid a painter for her tomb. Her favorite jewels, pearls that were paired With deep red stones, now decorate the room The tiny room, her...
by phillipw | May 15, 2020 | AN, HA, HE, RE
The Upper World of God’s Own Heaven is Far Superior to the Ancients’ Underworld In Homer’s day, deep pagan ancient times, The infamous and rich and mighty class Of men felt agonies in Hades. Crimes By them alone, and only the most crass Ones, caused immortal...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | AN, HA, RO
People Have Always Been Pathetic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem On altars made of turf there lies at rest The aster amellus * in rings. The fall Photo by Franz Xaver In fullness of its fruits and...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AR, BO, HA, UN
Hairy Happiness The woman watches him. He’s at the sink Inside their hotel room. She notes his arms And shoulders most. She thinks of manly stink In black-haired armpits, glossy in the harms They do to heart and guts as she succumbs. He’s washing them with water...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | BA, HA, LO, VI
Synthesis Examine for yourself the claim that love Is noblest and the mightiest of all. Is it far better than the truth, above An iron-like honesty? Is love more tall Than mountained decency? And is not hate Sometimes required to make things work? ...
by phillipw | Feb 26, 2020 | AB, AN, HA, RO, YE
…..Suffocated Devotions ……….“the fame of his lost love” Who cares about the love of Yazid choked Forever in that clogging of the throat, About Antinous, whose death is cloaked In rumors and suspicions as they float Above the marble whiteness of...
