by phillipw | Feb 28, 2026 | CO, CR, DR, HE, LU, RO
Speedy Affliction Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Addiction is an evil when it brings You love. The Greeks were right about that drug Delivered by an arrow. Its point stings You with the chemical. That...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2026 | HE, ST
Revelations Though girls are only girls, and boys are boys, Just boys, you know the truth despite these facts. The girl has gold in hair that Stephen toys With righteously. Inside his chest her acts Cause consternations zinging far beyond A prophet’s visions. Then...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2025 | FU, HE, SE
Pistol Clear Beneath the Branches of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Adam knew Eve his wife, and . . .” Genesis 4:1 In autumn nights the waters of the stream Are...
by phillipw | Nov 30, 2025 | HE, LO
Much Ado About the All Without Nothing “until David exceeded” * 1 Samuel 20:41 KJV The man who uses “all” in logic, thought, Or hifalutin’ argument omits A fact, a very crucial fact he ought Not leave from his discussion. He means tits And everything he...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | AB, HE, LE, LI, RO
Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden By a collapsed house A pear tree blooming. Here a Battle was fought. ~ Shiki At Gettysburg we walked across the fields. Not far away from there a pear tree bloomed. In Arlington Lee’s mansion has no...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2025 | AM, CH, FE, HE, RE
A Faith’s Pure Shrine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem That rhyming verse which makes a big romance Of stuff besmirches truest poetry. It’s like Gestapo jackboots in a dance On heaps of bones...
