by phillipw | May 5, 2024 | KI, NI
NØught Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Kierkegaard As faintly as the cosmos feels our breath, It feels our hearts much less, that’s if it reads At all their beats. Significance Macbeth, As hardened in...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2021 | HE, KI, MA
“The Declaration of Independence” and “Resistance to Civil Government” Bring Peace and War The mildness of a Ghandi turns to thrust Of violence. The little spinning wheel Becomes a maelstrom. Prejudices combust The whole subcontinent. That...
by phillipw | Jul 11, 2021 | BL, BU, GO, GR, IO, KI, KY
Born from the Genitals of Uranus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The eyes of Aphrodite are more blue, As blue as depths off Kythira, perhaps As pale as blue waves mariners see through Before they find...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2021 | AE, KI, LE, ME, MO
Meager Medieval Males and Meager Modern Males Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We wonder if they honestly deceived Themselves with legends told as histories. Were decorated prose and rhyme believed As...
by phillipw | Jan 6, 2021 | KI, MA, SE, SI
Hard as an Anvil and a Stone …. “bygge” ~ Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur Stuck in, pulled out, stuck in, pulled out, again Again, again, again, the weapon he had found That only he could wield, the best of men, The one to do it, stout young Arthur crowned...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2020 | AL, AN, CH, FE, KI, MU
The Cambridge Christmas Choir Trinity The beauties vary. One young man whose throat Appears to have no voice box sings high Inside the chapel. Melodies devote Themselves from him like angels in the sky Above sopranos and the trebles. He Turns into miracles the...
