by phillipw | Mar 3, 2025 | HI
An August Morning and the Shukkei-en Garden Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A song that is a light beam which is both Perfume and phosporescence brings a balm To garden minds. Above the undergrowth,...
by phillipw | Sep 19, 2024 | BU, HI, MO, RE
Not Just Nirvana The meaning of the Passion does not quite Fit in with Buddha’s or the Hindus’ way So near enough one fifth thinks Passion’s blight. The point is in escaping it, its sway. Samsara is at best a dirtiness That reels out incarnations,...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2024 | HI, NA
“That Has Such Creatures In It” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A moon around the planet Saturn peers At earth and hopes that it is crystal. Rock Rings block far surveys. More like long lens tears...
by phillipw | Jul 23, 2024 | FR, HI, IN, NE, PU, SO, SP, TU
Later Sammy Silently Disappeared with His Airforce Father Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I want to return to the shadows, and from the shadows to the flower. Are you going, fragrance? Go! ~ Lorca,...
by phillipw | Dec 15, 2022 | AL, AT, HI
Raising Civilization Ten thousand years ago men took to ploughs To train wild grass to flourish tame and fat. Men didn’t know that drilling seeds would rouse The walls of cities, brewing hops in vat, And stewing barley (whisky). Men grew drunk Not just...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2022 | AT, CA, HI, MA, NA
Dispensation Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What falls from heavens here upon the earth Brings mornings set with richness and with flux. A fullness settles, once with grief or...
