by phillipw | Feb 15, 2020 | GR, HE
[I suggest you read the title and then skip the bible verses and read just the sonnet below them. Then read the bible verses and re-read the poem.] Wound The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood ~ Joel 2:31...
by phillipw | Feb 6, 2020 | HE, ME, PH, WH
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose Today I chew the peanut butter, sweet Grape jelly, white bread sandwich which she made For me those sixty years ago. I eat Not just a memory refusing to fade But actually the groundnut spread and dark Fruit layer in between the...
by phillipw | Feb 2, 2020 | HE
Tried by Fire “I can never feel certain of any truth but from a clear perception of its Beauty.” ~ John Keats A truth that forms outside pure beauty fails. No matter who propounds a thought, or what Cathedra it...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2020 | HE
The Long Reckoning Will there be thinking after Jesus comes Again? I mean, just what will be the use? I reckon what we’ll have is lots of thumbs Atwiddling. There’ll only be the abstruse To ponder, as in how the abstract love Of God, as spiritual as it has to...
by phillipw | Jan 3, 2020 | HE
The Chambered Hermit Crab My heart is like a hermit crab. It drags Itself around the graveyard ocean floor And looks for justice, love, and mercy, snags Abandoned shells—and settles for Protection. Pulling vunlerable parts Inside an empty sepulcher of lime, The...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | HE
Heart Wounds The lizard leaves its tail trapped in the cat’s Teeth, flopping against a puzzled whisker. The green chameleon starts a new length. That’s That. The starfish posture is much brisker: It can build back even one whole star flare. If...
