by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | AR, DE, LO, PO, RI
Veiled as for a Funeral, Not a Wedding We have that face. We have those written lines. It’s difficult to say just which is more Poetic, hero doomed by death’s designs, Or poetry abandoned by the whore, That smelly adolescent. Words obscure The meanings and the edges...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | AN, BO, HE, IN, LO, MU, RO, ST
Never Land Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Ordinarily, romantic love is a popular theme in ancient India’s epics as well as in numerous plays that revolve around the romances of...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | LO, RO
Rendezvous and Rendezvous and Ascension When only wings come into focus, tips Especially, we think of more than flight. We think of glossy prospects and of lips And glossy possibilities. Blue light In shading truths of focus opens wide. The light might mean that...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | BE, CH, LO, MA, ST
“A Man—Call Him an Angel” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A man appeared to me. He raised his hands Like angels high above but he was here In air space which we shared. His whorling strands Of richest...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | LO, VE
Sententious Symbiosis “The Roman historian Tacitus records an early Germanic gnome: ‘Women must weep and men remember.’” Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry, 5 Sometimes a war is small and very large At once. A woman and a man are two But forced together they produce...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | CH, ET, FR, HE, Ho, LO, MA, ST
More Like Lightning He argued that her face was full of faults But perfect beauty was their startling end. Those imperfections listed were the vaults To her immaculate and lovely blend Contending with a theoretical Ideal. My lover, though, was more than that. His...
