by phillipw | Feb 17, 2026 | FA, KA
Karma in Sandusky When everything seems hidden in God’s mist, When nature has become a giant shield Against our seeing details men have missed, Then suddenly sad circumstances yield A swath of death not prophesied. A storm The night before forced college...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2025 | KA, Uncategorized
The Japanese Spirit (Not Saki) The Japanese move porcelain-sweet mugs And cups and kettles, decorated, fine As April cherry blossoms, then as thugs Men dive bomb as imperially divine Themselves to slaughter guys on metal ships, The roasting of the flesh, plunged...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2025 | FR, GI, KA
The Lavender Lover in Her Throat Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My Karen had a voice of purple parts, Or violet, when singing in her sly Range alto. Velvet changed to gorgeous darts When Karen sang...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2024 | KA, LI, ST
Nō Theatre in Slow and Slower Sadomasochism Motion Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “eternity shows itself in love with the productions of time” ~ R. H. Blyth, Zen and Zen Classics, vol. 5, p.125 Eternity...
by phillipw | Jan 27, 2024 | GA, Ho, KA, LO, LU, MA, NE, RO, UN
Unlike You and Him There seemed a time (if time can merely seem) When we soared parallel, so did not touch, The lack of touching sinful as a dream (Though close the lack of touching hurt too much And so I had to comment face to face With little gifts of...
by phillipw | Mar 7, 2022 | BI, BR, CO, KA, RU, SE
Blending Until the centuries come and blur away, Until they come and go like spirits, or Like ghosts, let us, together, come and sway As one, if that be possible. Let each one’s core Become the other’s by a blending of Our souls and...
