by phillipw | Jun 1, 2021 | FI, LI, LO, MA, SE
The Y Chromosome Inside the Tiny Holy Grail All day the firefly Folds in his glow beneath grass Waiting for twilight. ~ a found haiku; original words adjusted by PhillipWhidden; encountered in Henry David Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord...
by phillipw | May 30, 2021 | LI, PO, RE
Ricocheting and Reverberations “A Poem of any length neither can be, nor ought to be, all poetry.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge The lazy ones all say, “I like this line.” That keeps them from admitting that they don’t Like all the others. That is all just...
by phillipw | Mar 24, 2021 | AN, LI, PO, TE
Textually Abused It used to be that English teachers taught Us poetry by reading it aloud Or telling us that on our own we ought To memorize it. In the distant cloud Of eons past all poetry was set In memory by bards but maybe no One else. Our teachers...
by phillipw | Mar 22, 2021 | GO, IN, LI, ME, PO
Four Corners Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Earth was said to have four corners when The Bible first appeared in Jewish minds. My mind has just four corners. Its amen Is...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2021 | DE, FR, JA, JU, LI, MA, NE, PS
Art for Farts’ Sake The monstrous lack of any sense in art Was followed by the monstrous lack of sense In thinking and philosophy . The part Of Derrida and Deconstruction’s dense Offensive springs to mind. A crazed theory Of this and that philosopher in turn...
by phillipw | Dec 29, 2020 | HA, LI, LO, Mc, ME
Linda He falls apart. He picks it up and goes To pieces. Snapshots there had lain inside The closet darkness decades. In the throes Of stirred up memories, he learned they misguide. Blank absence makes us think that we’re like ones Who don’t believe...
