by phillipw | Apr 22, 2020 | HE, LO, ST
Poets, Poetry, and Women For well thou know’st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel. Yet, in good faith, some say that thee behold, Thy face hath not the power to make love groan ~ Sonnet 131 …….. Who thinks of blank...
by phillipw | Apr 16, 2020 | AU, LO, NI
Lorena, Logic, Love, Loss The thought of Aunt Lorena crossed my mind Today while shaving. Human brains are strange Like feral cats who once were tame. Designed For logic, heads can sometimes disarrange Their purpose unpredictably. Why should My mind thinks, “Aunt...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | LO
Spells and the Thoughts of Tiresias “Halliwell’s basic argument is that Socrates admits the Book X arguments to be insecure and open to defeat. He calls them ‘spells’ rather than philosophical knowledge, and he asserts that he must use them [those arguments]...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AN, LO
The Sacred Fire The Thespians of Greece in ancient times Upheld the god of love devout as saints Have ever been. Deep lovers’ paradigms Are never quite as true as perfect paints: Vermeer’s silk velvet spaces spring to mind. The purity those Thespians conceived...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | LO, MA
The Night before Thermopylae — “The Hot Gates” “Phaedrus's praise for erôs (love) as a precondition for courage employs poetic quotations from poems that in fact state that wisdom is the true precondition, and that erotic passion without thoughtfulness leads...
by phillipw | Apr 14, 2020 | LO
Open The ancient Greeks believed that light beams flowed Both into eyes and out of them. If stars Poured in their lights, then stars in light streams flowed Back out. If Venus, Jupiter, or Mars Fell down through irises, then planets’ lights Shone...
