by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, LO, RA, UG, WA
Remember, Remember Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Pause. Think of all the beauty lost in time, The beauties are hidden in the loss of days We never think of, beauties lost by crime, Like...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | BE, LO, MA, NA, SE
Narcissus Was the Perfect Lover in the Heights of Maleness, Leaping, and Diving Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Narcissus did not know. He came to love His own clean image, glossy, bright, and pure,...
by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | LO, PA, PH, PO
Just Plato? “But a man who has nothing more valuable than what he has composed or written, who has spent his time twisting words, sticking them together and pulling them apart is rightly called a poet or a speech writer or a maker of laws.” ~...
by phillipw | Apr 28, 2020 | GO, LO
Love Does not Forget, Shimmering Inside from Everlasting to Everlasting “Paul Cartledge reminds us that ‘the ancient Greek word for “truth” meant literally “not forgetting”.’” Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 22 A truth cannot be lost while...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | LO, RO
A Tropical Waterspout at the Edge of a Lagoon Somehow romance as whirlwind is true, Too true, like comas are too much like death. A little twister is too like a coup In some small principality whose breath Is warm and humid, packed with yellows, reds, And oranges in...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2020 | LO, LU, MA, SE
Antediluvian and Modern Man The crotch, a man’s crotch, is located in The center of his body, of his soul. It’s at the core of him and in his sin. His essence comes out shooting from his pole When he is more a man on fire with lust (Or love; you call it what you...
