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...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2020 | LO, SO
Heavenly Messengers Come Down to the Cities of the Plain The possibility of knowing them Intrigued the men of Sodom. (Angels came To Sodom seldom.) Why did God condemn These citizens to rained-from-heaven flame And brimstone? Wouldn’t you have wanted to Acquaint...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2020 | LO, ST
Limitless Response Death garners blankness, stores the space between The asteroids. Notwithstanding, Love breathes In all spaces, even those which green Has never dwelt in. Love inhales the wreaths Of galaxies and closer groupings of These glittering, fiery...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2020 | LO
Romance Two roses, redder than the scarlet veins Of Venus, are arranged together in Straight lines. Their vase is vertical. Pains Are banished from them, just as sickly sin Is exiled from the Holy City. Men And women loving in such perfect pairs...
