by phillipw | Aug 14, 2026 | AF, DE, LE, SO
Sung Incense-vague Roses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The good is oft interrèd with their bones” Prepare your poetry to be your song For singing after you are gone. The grave Is not for it. As...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2026 | LE
That Evil Uncle Sam Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He brought her lei leis from Hawai’i to Her nursing home in Florida before Departings, first by him for when he flew Away and later as the open door Of...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2025 | AU, DE, LE
Ambiguity People are few. October leaves also fall, Here, there, now and then. ~ Issa [Englished by Phillip Whidden] The people come and go. As symbols they Lack wings unlike black Lucifer or God. The people are far fewer in the day Than leaves that flutter, wings...
by phillipw | Nov 5, 2025 | AL, CA, LE, SU, TH
Single-mindedness “Five times as warm, and five times as cold, just as I am five times as rich as you are, and five times as clever.” ~ The Red Queen The old pond; A frog jumps in — The sound of the water. Basho, Translated by R.H. Blyth There’s nothing that...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | DE, EA, LE
Iridescent Fate Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our souls (which don’t exist) are like a moth Embossed with steel of pin behind the glass, Displays of them against a velvet cloth Too kind and soft for...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | AB, HE, LE, LI, RO
Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden By a collapsed house A pear tree blooming. Here a Battle was fought. ~ Shiki At Gettysburg we walked across the fields. Not far away from there a pear tree bloomed. In Arlington Lee’s mansion has no...
