by phillipw | Feb 13, 2020 | LO, RO
My Third Grade Teacher Taught that Blue & Brown Don’t Go Together Well I would make blue orbs to look at you, Blue orbs of crystal or of clearer cool. My own blue fronted orbs, each iris blue For looking for perfection, for the jewel Perfection of your browner...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2020 | AS, BI, LO, RO, ST, TW
SR PW Two stars that give off light unlike the light Of other stars, so different from their rays That creatures on far distant planets, bright As it might be, cannot hope to see our blaze, We circle in our gravity around Each other, close, so close...
by phillipw | Feb 10, 2020 | CH, DE, LO, ST
I Spend my Nights Composing Sonnets for The Dead: Charles Randall Stanfield I spend my nights composing sonnets for The dead. The great majority of these I never knew because they number more Than friends and relatives I try to seize In poetry. I write of Talleyrand...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | FA, LO
If Only Love L’amour est comme le vent, nous ne savons pas d’où il vient. ~ Balzac If only love were like the wind, as clear And as predictable as on our screens When forecasters pronounce, and as austere As mathematical statements, or...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
The Greats Among the great “there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love” ~ Sir Francis Bacon Not Yezid with Habiba, Abelard With Heloise, not Alexander great With love for silk Bagoas, the king’s hard Imperial thrusts...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | AD, DA, JO, LO, RO, UN
When I Wake Up, I am Absent from Thee ‘As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.’ 2 Corinthians 1:7 Two continents and long tides far away You live alone now and we sleep apart. The beauties of my high spec life hold sway,...
