by phillipw | Mar 30, 2021 | AT, IC, LO, NE
Young Hearts upon a Massachusetts Plane More beautiful than ghost-like, they are real, The skaters on the winter pond at night. They swerve around and skim about on steel, On circle (pond), make ovals as in flight, December birds whose wings are skates along The...
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2020 | BI, CH, EA, GR, IC, OR, TR
Declines and Declining Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The wood that makes the icons’ boxes lacks The holiness that throbs, still, through these saints And sacred ones. Despite the inner cracks...
by phillipw | Jul 24, 2020 | AN, IC, RE
Floating Between the Stars and the Depths Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Black unseen forces move the stars above Us and below the southern hemisphere. Some unseen forces like the wind and love,...
by phillipw | Jul 20, 2020 | AN, DA, HE, IC, PH, TH, WH, WO
With Straight Gold Bars I sat beside my mother as the sale Was made, the purchase of The World Book Encyclopedia. I loved the pale Cream, knobbled leatherette, the noble look Of deep maroon square placed on spine of each Restrained and heavy volume, glossy...
by phillipw | May 31, 2020 | IC, ID, SC, ST
That Other Congregation The oldest congregation lingers here, No white haired ladies with a blue rinse in Coiffures among it. Men beside this pier And that repenting middle-aged and balding sin Are not a part of this community. The congregation and the choir are...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | BU, EN, IC, SA
Ichneumon Religion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “All things around us are asking for our apprehension, working for our enlightenment.” ~ R. H. Blyth, Preface, Haiku, Summer-Autumn, Volume 3 of...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2019 | IC, ME
Life’s Memories are Iceberg-shaped ……………………………………..Wikipedia Our memories are iceberg shaped. We think The part above the waves is life, but, no, That’s just the ice...