by phillipw | Nov 30, 2023 | FL, HA, IS, MA
Palestine Protesters in Perspective Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In Michigan an X-er in one town Is all upset because an Xmas band Is drowned out by a protest. One cold frown Is sent across The...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2023 | IS, RE, SE
Time separates more widely, fatally Than space. The second that just passed goes, gone, Leaps gone forever, plummets weightily, More heavily than gravity’s hard, wan Iron cannonball in vacuum, yanked fast Away where science cannot find it, lost Eternally and...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2021 | AR, IS, Uncategorized
Conjecture “The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea” ~ Matthew Arnold What Wordsworth felt and wondered rests unknown Against the edges of our minds. We know, Though not completely, what we feel. Alone The soul is and will always...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2021 | EN, IS, RE, SA
No Separation from the Holy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The soul becomes disturbed when it returns From ecstasy. Ask Saint Teresa or Saint Francis. Spirit memory still burns Like coals that touch...
by phillipw | Aug 9, 2021 | GA, GU, HE, IS, JU, LA, PA, TR, ZE
Pitifully Bulging with Restraint The ancient myths refrain from giving hot Exactness to sex swollen loves. The gate Of Troy is breached, but Homer leaves out taut Male flesh in ram and slam of lust in spate Between Queen Helen’s legs. When Zeus rapes up Inside...
by phillipw | Aug 8, 2021 | AN, HE, IS, SE, ST, TR
Iseut of the White Hands Slick She moves her white hands down to find his dark Disgustingness, exactly what her need Is in this darker moment. Long, and stark, And thick it promises disgusting seed If she is brave and desperate enough To take it everywhere...
by phillipw | May 2, 2021 | IS, MA, OL, ZE
Zero Truth from Pagan Mesoamerica An ancient Olmec scholar dreamed it up. He worked it out within his Allah-less thought. He did not need to use a carved stone cup Of baby blood to figure math’s round nought. This Olmec thinker lived three thousand years (Or maybe...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2021 | FA, IS, MA, RE, SA, ST
Righteous Believers Stop their Ears When Stephen, dragged for stoning, knelt at last, The Middle Eastern mob predicted our Times. Vicious truths lived, brutal, in the past And live outrageously. Their hour Is near, unending in that hateful realm. This hatred...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2021 | HE, HU, IS, MA, MI, RO, SE, ST, TR
Iseut of the White Hands “[…] then he was such that all who saw him said that if he was not a brave knight he really must hate his fine body. And indeed he was so handsome that Iseut herself, who was called Iseut of the White Hands, fell madly in love with...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2021 | AE, BE, BU, ES, GE, HI, Ho, IS, JU, TR
Vicars of Esthetics Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Triangular like God the flowers are shown Against a boring green of lawn. Arrayed In righteous revelation now full blown Their holiness of...
by phillipw | Nov 29, 2020 | AL, AN, DE, EP, GR, HE, IS, LU, MA, PH, PL, SE
Healthy Hedonism; and, Holy Hedonism, Paired Sonnets Healthy Hedonism Tattoo upon yourself this perfect law— The sacredness of pleasure is above The other, puny principles. The awe That it deserves, like God in love, Confirms that thrills, inviolate and...
by phillipw | Nov 27, 2020 | AL, GO, IS, PR, RE
Revenant Religion The ancient skies were filled with gods and gods And gods. We sickened of them, most of them. The priests and prophets held them up at odds With us. The gods were one vile diadem That crowned creation. But these gods were red As death...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2020 | AN, CH, DA, GR, HE, IS, JU, PH, RE
Darwin and Heraclitus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Homer should be turned out of the canon and whipped. He was wrong in saying : ‘Would that strife might perish from among gods and men!’ ...
by phillipw | Oct 10, 2020 | AN, BO, DE, HE, IS, OX, PO, SA
Dead Sea Scrolls and Caves Discovered Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The words remain on pages and on scrolls Through centuries and millennia. On dark Cave walls the long lost paintings left by...
by phillipw | Sep 15, 2020 | BI, CH, DE, GO, IS, JU, KO, LE, OL, QU, RE
Dead Sea Salt, not Caves “Many soul-destroying things/In folded tablets” ~ T. S. Brandreth, The Iliad of Homer, 1816 I know those soul-destroying things, those things In ancient texts on parchment, vellum, or Papyrus, rolled or folded. Suffering...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | AN, AT, BO, CA, CL, CO, CY, HE, IS, PI, SA
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unrecoverable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “Athenaeus quotes more than ten thousand lines of verse in it, many not preserved or attested elsewhere.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets Ten...
by phillipw | Jun 30, 2020 | AL, BY, GE, Ho, IS, JO, KE, LO, WA
Crippled Poets Among the earliest of lines to spring And linger utterly till now are long Ones drawn from blinded eyes. The verses sing Like prophets’ spirits which must see. A song Of guts, the gods, and marrow-spills came out From manly depths behind the...
by phillipw | Jun 24, 2020 | AL, GA, HI, IS
Sacred Incenses The fragrance of the orange groves comes down From paradise, whatever God you know. A Christ, Ganesha—or an Allah frown . . . Yes, even that—must carry with it glow Of perfect redolence from heaven. White Perfection flows out from the...
by phillipw | Jun 12, 2020 | BY, GE, GO, HA, Ho, IS, JO, KE, PO, WA
Crippled Poets Among the earliest of lines to spring And linger utterly till now are long Ones drawn from blinded eyes. The verses sing Like prophets’ spirits which must see. A song Of guts, the gods, and marrow-spills came out From manly depths behind the...
by phillipw | May 16, 2020 | AL, CO, IS, RE
Uranium Rods and Synergy “no proud dreams and no proud lusts” ~ H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds The swelling and the force of men is like The power of God, Jehovah at his best, Or Allah at his fiercest, or, more the spike In Mercury’s performance, gods...
by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | IS, TE
Thoughts on Politest Britain after Recent Attacks A giant flies above the ancient walls And towers. Stained glass windows’ notes are drowned By roaring engines louder than the calls Of dragons being stabbed. A cricket ground Below all this is calmer than the...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | IS, MO, RE, SP
God Spoke Today I stumbled down the hill to buy some food For Prospero. He does not know that I Had been knocked flat by an extremely rude Disease. In fact he doesn’t know I buy His salmon flakes. He only knows that they Are spooned for him by me. Their...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | IS
Piddling Holiness The One God, Allah, has a brand new, great idea to turn the millions who have learned To loathe Him. He will form Pisslamic State. The kafir millions who have rightly spurned Him recently because of losers armed With trucks, and cars, and vans,...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Jan 24, 2020 | IS, PR, RA
[This is about one of the guards at the entrance to the Rare Books and Music Reading Room.] Besides, I’m the Foreigner I like him for his gentle, almost sly Smile, nearly shy, but, no, not quite. A smile That’s mostly in the lips but in the eye Is boosted on a face...
by phillipw | Jan 11, 2020 | IS, VU
A Sudden Island http://news.yahoo.com/satellite-photo-shows-island-rising-earths-red-sea-170703840.html A sudden island surges from the sea Where once low waves were rulers of the heights. A plume of smoke like Lucifer’s goatee Spreads white across the...
by phillipw | Dec 13, 2019 | IS
Deformities It’s tripled Deuteronomy in length That Allah-spawned Koran, iron nippled In feeling, more than ninety proof in strength. Anyone who loves it ends up crippled By crushing combinations of its force And numbness at the boring sameness of It to...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2019 | IS
Infidel Epiphany To be as careless as a Yank, careful As French enigmas in their clipped hedge lines, As focused as Italian nuns, prayerful In sinless sins, as strict as Prussian spines In taut formation—all these were beyond Him. Adjectives were only...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2019 | IS
Coincidental Consequence “God’s veil over things makes them all riddles.” Herzog, 92 It turns out that the reason women wear Hijab in Islam is that Allah first Adopted it Himself to hide the flare Of His innate blaze that otherwise would burst The eyes of all His...
by phillipw | Nov 13, 2019 | IS
The Pious Pecker Sex maniac, and saint, and hero of The sacred men of ISIL, holy Mo Was saved at last by Allah far above That promenade in Nice. God loved him so He helped him grow a beard in those last few Days, those preparation days. We wonder Which...
by phillipw | Nov 13, 2019 | IS, SU, TE
Islamist Asphodels “inherit the desolate heritages” ~ Isaiah 49:8 Confused and nebulous like blossoms new To Hades, new to condemnation of Our purpose and our petals, now we view The world as if we never lived above This cavern underneath the ground of...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2019 | IS
Mohamed Bouhlel “How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!”~ Isaiah 52:7 How beautiful are...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2019 | IS, SU
Islamist Asphodels “inherit the desolate heritages” ~ Isaiah 49:8 Confused and nebulous like blossoms new To Hades, new to condemnation of Our purpose and our petals, now we view The world as if we never lived above This cavern underneath the ground of...
by phillipw | Oct 30, 2019 | IS
God as Dominatrix, not joie de vivre The yearning youths who simmer in the sweat Of boredom in banlieus in France, or In slums of Belgium, or London have met A new god recently. He is The Bore, The Great and Monolithic Deity Who needs submission from such needy guys....
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2019 | IS
Allah’s Conquering, Heroic, and Hallowed Religion He proves that Sacred Islam must exult. The One True God has destined it to gloat In triumph over weaker faiths. Its cult Is Holy Strength. If it must cut the throat Of infidel and sacrilege, its boasts...
by phillipw | Jul 8, 2019 | IS
Christian and Muslim in North Africa Devoted as that Berber, Augustine Of Hippo, Antonin defends belief. Why shouldn’t he? The young man’s mind is clean, As clean as desert dunes without relief From blasts of wind and brutal sun, as pure As cool oasis water, still,...