by phillipw | Feb 5, 2020 | LO, RO
Lightning Bolt You know what catastrophe is. It cleaves If you are fortunate. It cuts your chest In two divisions cleanly; slices, leaves Your heart in halves. This fate does not molest You other than to split your guts and soul Precisely down their...
by phillipw | Feb 5, 2020 | LO
The Sum of Life Love “has no great influence upon the sum of life” ~ Samuel Johnson He tots up all the numbers, money, words He listed in that dictionary, wrote In books and articles, and all the turds He shat from all that food that made him bloat Up...
by phillipw | Feb 4, 2020 | LO, RO
Perfect Bliss Love brings divinities immortal bliss. Eternity of loving only they Can have as they can live from kiss to kiss In never ending sequence. Groaning, they In pleasure with each lengthy meeting of Their lips, ten thousand eons lingering...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2020 | LO
Beyoncé, Beethoven, and Bach Job 38:7 The woman sings her peppermint-ish thing. The Germans do their heavy stomach stuff, A fugue, a symphony and Wagner’s Ring Mit Heldentenors set against her fluff. Bob Dylan and Bob Marley offer wells With rhythm and guitar and...
by phillipw | Jan 28, 2020 | LO, LU
Cleopatra A wrinkled jotter page is what’s to hand While making poetry for you. The sheet Is hardly right for writing sonnets, grand Emotions, vivid passions, all replete With love and other tortures and disease Of heart and synapse. Love lacks...
by phillipw | Jan 28, 2020 | LO
Best, Beyond Beatitude You kissed (MY GOD, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!), kissed Me—kissed me on the mouth and on the tongue! You kissed me, kissed my whiskers. Sexy mist Beclouded my sensations. Why your young, Wet spit would seek out mine was well beyond A rational...