by phillipw | Jun 20, 2024 | AU, DE, LI, PE, Uncategorized
An After-sunset Avenue in Montpelier, Vermont Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Linda Pervier The arc lights in the darkness of the street Create an eeriness in time. The leaves Fall through them...
by phillipw | May 10, 2024 | LI, RE
I Don’t Believe the Doctrine that Readers, not the Authors, Finish a Book Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Occasionally another reader made Red marks inside the margins by some lines Of poetry as if an...
by phillipw | May 4, 2022 | AE, BE, ES, HE, JU, LI, MA, PH
Junge Männer, a Sonnet Sequence on the photographs in Herbert List’s Junge Männer [Each sonnet is about at least one of the sonnets in List’s book. Before the title of each sonnet is the number of the photograph the poem is about, as in (#1). Often (or...
by phillipw | Jan 28, 2022 | HA, LI, LO
Looking for His Love The first firefly! It was off, away,— The wind left in my hand. ~ Issa The firefly lands by chance upon my hand And flashes there, blink, blink in twilight green. In growing darkness little glows expand,...
by phillipw | Sep 9, 2021 | LI
Meditation and Revelation A firefly, glowing, glowing, glowing swerves Around the temple bell and rests upon It, glinting. In the twilight glowing curves Have settled on the metal briefly. Drawn Towards the contours of the bronze, the fly Begins its...
by phillipw | Jun 22, 2021 | LI
The Endless Loop Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Each blossom pushes towards perfection, pink Or white or orange. Petals open wide Like little gods that in their waking wink Towards a soft...
