by phillipw | Feb 9, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, PA, RO, SC
The Lochs, Coldness, Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Large lochs move far away and farther. So It seems at least without you near in space And time, in eons time, or nearly slow As that without...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | AI, BO, ED, GA, LO, RO
On Wings of Longing In future I will fly to Spain to find . . . And find. I hope to find a long-lost past With someone in it, long in heart and mind Of meetings, Edinburgh, Aix . . . memories vast For me, as long as forty years and more. This one I hope to...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2024 | LO, SE
Brown and Pink Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bracken. Public domain. The bracken, just like life, turns back to rust. They make their way up through it, rustling through The brown. They...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2024 | AN, BA, EP, LE, LO, PO, RO
The Loss of the Louvre Imagine that the world of pictures died And words alone were left. The Instagram And TikTok types would all want suicide. Then poetry would rule; this oriflamme Of language would replace nought one, nought one Of photographs and...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2024 | DE, FA, LO, RO
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflecting_cavern_lake.jpg Combination Subterranean Fates Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Your blood cells taste of tight infinities When swallowed by my...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | AB, LO, RO, SE, YA
Lush Blackness Outside and Inside “with false compare” ~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 The eyes wait black, the eyebrows, too. The hair On top waves black, thick black. These blacks all teach That black is lovelier than yellow. Swear By black since it is...
