by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | LO
Two Symbols Two symbols could not be much more unlike Each other, one of softness in an arc, The other of right angles, death and spike, The rainbow—sweetness—and the cross, like shark Its style The bending bow that Rimbaud thought Of on the ferry...
by phillipw | Jan 12, 2020 | LO
Utter Her words came down as if they fell from scars Across the moon. She had not meant to hurt, Which only made it worse. As cold as Mars Her sentence entered me. It was the dirt Beneath Antarctic ice. It wasn’t that The words were toneless,...
by phillipw | Jan 9, 2020 | 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...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2020 | LO, RO, UN
…Love at First ……….. Love swoops around like terror, once inside The chest, as if a feral cat’s been trapped Among the ribs, is scratching at the hide Of heart and lungs—or vampires have been clapped Inside that prison, tantalized...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2020 | LO, RO, UN
Yet Yet lancet arches are what really made . … Me choose this elegant, receding view. Ranged narrowest ones gave their distant, blade- Like contemplation of the glass—and you Arose within my consciousness. What chance I had for consummation of my...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2020 | LO, RO
Gifts The big mistake is letting love leave, your own, Sending it to somebody else. If trapped Or lost inside another, it will groan And not thrive there. It cannot be unwrapped Once it is moaning in that other chest. Do not allow your feelings...
