by phillipw | Dec 30, 2025 | JA, WE
Shakespeare versus Onitsura and Tozan Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Great Morning breaks: The winds of long ago blow In through the pine trees. ~ Onitsura [Englished by Phillip Whidden] The wind in...
by phillipw | Nov 22, 2025 | BU, CH, JA, MY, Uncategorized
Monks Near Bamboo Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bamboo is too exact for Japanese And Chinese mystics. Unimpeachable In perfect pipes, it bends in Buddha’s breeze. His wise enlightenment feels reachable...
by phillipw | Sep 1, 2025 | JA, ME, PO, WA
Ono no Komachi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Ono no Komachi – Wikipedia Imagine thinking of a man’s love like The petals and the fragrance of a flower As it is wilting, or a white love...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | AN, JA
Esthetic as Emetic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In general the tasteless in the land (And all lands) much prefer the sheen of gloss, The slickness and the gildedness, the grand And overblown...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2024 | CL, JA, LO, NE, SA
New Orleans Drinking Whiskey Neat that which halts itself dreams. ~ Lorca, “Running” (“Corriente”) A sonnet lends a pause. It brings a halt To Tuesday stuff. It enters...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2024 | AN, GR, JA, MO, RO
I Canali, un Pranzo, il Arsenale Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Romans, Japanese and Greeks once had A reverence, religious in a calm Way, quiet, for the clockwork things, the sad (The...
