by phillipw | Apr 2, 2026 | AU, FA, FL, GI, IN, SU, WI
If Only Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If only girls were more like flowers, their hands Like petals gesturing in breeze-blown loves Of innocence that burn like harmless brands, Or dressed in...
by phillipw | Mar 23, 2026 | AN, IN, PR, SE
Futile Female Supplication Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The eyes of women suffer worst, because There are no angels and because their wings Have never been. They do not fly through gauze Of stellar...
by phillipw | Feb 8, 2026 | IN, PU
The Glitter of the Heart with Snows of Yesteryear Inside It in Sir Galahad Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Les neiges d’antan The distant seems more lovely if we see It like the nearest things we...
by phillipw | Feb 7, 2026 | BU, CH, IN, MO, RE, SO
Fourteen, Twice Seven . . . and More Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sonnet in its little zoom [or something like that} ~ Wordsworth The sonnet is a chrysalis, yet you Must open it. The creature,...
by phillipw | Jan 19, 2026 | DA, IN, TO
One as Plural “see, collected in tranquility” [or something like that] ~ William Wordsworth For poetry he dives like Baja boys For pearls but leaps through eyeballs like young Tom From heights. He dives through lenses and the noise Of life and finds our spheres. He...
by phillipw | Jan 11, 2026 | AI, IN
Till Turning, Turning We Come Round Right Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Turn mind to friends. Turn mind to daydreams. Turn Your mind to books and beauties. Turn to true, Not TikTok vacuums* and turn to...
