by phillipw | Dec 12, 2025 | JO, KE
Poetry’s Tiltings “bride of quietness and slow time” An emerald gem does not require your praise To be a wonder as it waits. We cut With laps and chisels reverently to raise Its hallowed thrill. The angles need not strut Their loveliness. It lies in silence while...
by phillipw | Dec 9, 2025 | DO, JO, Uncategorized
Death Be Taut, Proud Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Death never can be killed. If death could think That, it would be as calm as light, as calm As darkness. Death could smell the faithful stink...
by phillipw | Oct 17, 2025 | CA, FU, HA, JO, RE, SA
Trip Ups Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A ratatouille made of shadows seen Through God’s kaleidoscope is what the faiths Present to us. Religions, each a different scene Of glitters, promise...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | CL, JO, OL
Not Even for Cleopatra Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Once youth has fled the skin, the beauty will Be like the dryness and the sand of dunes. The breasts will sag like rotting fruit and spill...
by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | JO, MO, OA
A Temporary Fuck Up Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A novelist called Oates despises those Who rhyme their poetry. The High Brows now Pretend that people, Jills and Joes, Who love a poem that...
by phillipw | Aug 17, 2024 | BR, FA, JO, KE, LI, Uncategorized, WI
Mrs. Lindon and Beyond the Veil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Fanny Brawne, later Mrs. Lindon Avoiding ghost temptations she seeks through The curtain made of voile of silk between The living and the...
