by phillipw | Nov 4, 2019 | HE
The Golden Rule Philosophically Plated Take pleasure for yourself like hummingbirds. Give joy to others as you swallow juice They give. Ignore Religion’s numbing words. There’s nothing wrong with being jolly loose So long as you don’t harm...
by phillipw | Oct 18, 2019 | HE, ST, WH
“kitty kitty kitty” Was All She Could Say I cannot now recall my mother’s throat In words. For more than twenty years her speech Was dead before she died. A muffling bloat Occurred inside her brain. It was a screech Of blood that silenced her. No...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2019 | BE, HE
Feminine Beauty Just Ain’t Right “Hylas . . . is described in very un-heroic terms, with χαρίεντος (7) suggesting youth and beauty, and πλοκαμῖδα (7) emphasizing the boy’s ‘almost feminine prettiness’.” A hero can’t be pretty, beautiful, Or like a girl.,, (Well,...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2019 | HE, LI
Young and Doomed Why have a nightmare when, already, you Are caught in one? He lies alone in bed, Itself sufficient bad dream stuff to skew This scene away from others here. His head Especially looks threatened with his black Hair trapped in dead dark shadow,...
by phillipw | Sep 23, 2019 | DE, DI, GO, HE, MY
Translucent Demigods The heroes of the past are god-like strong. Their loins are near pellucid in their power And beauty. Irridescent thighs are long In loveliness of maleness as they tower Above their plinths. These calves and biceps glow With inner force as marble...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2019 | HE, HY, LO
Heracles, Hero of Hardness and of Pumping Power Theocritus of Syracuse, Idyll XIII As far as Hylas was concerned, not just The heart of Heracles was bronze. That part The boy controlled because heroic lust Took over certainly was not the heart Of...
