by phillipw | Nov 20, 2019 | LO
Shallow and Deeper Views If you will search for me with all your soul, The real me whom I want to share with you, Then surely you will find me, not the whole Man but the most important parts. The blue Eyes mean a clarity, a clarity Of purpose and of goals. The...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO
Surging Defeat Surging Defeat Is this Lot’s wife or some stone ghost-life lost? A dumb catastrophe like meteor hits And speaks to us. We feel the holocaust Despite not knowing what it was. A blitz Has thrown her clothing back while hacking at Her head. ...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2019 | LO, UN
Music of the Contours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you view this on your phone, view it in landscape mode or the unique formatting will be lost. The way that curls are lovelier than...
by phillipw | Nov 14, 2019 | LO, RO
Gauguin was Unaware: “The unplumb’d, salt, estranging sea.” “in isolation and virtual savagery” ~ Paul Gauguin Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild,...
by phillipw | Nov 10, 2019 | LO
… _ _ _ … It is as if harsh threads of Arctic cold Ran bending straight along the centers of The veins that fed my heart. These scourges tolled Their wire-like ways through me and froze my love. The threads swelled up so much that they...
by phillipw | Nov 8, 2019 | DO, LO
The High Perch This calmness has a loveliness, though not Extreme as passion’s face in pain called bliss. Serenity has settled on the plot Of soil that used to thrive with thrills amiss But now is as a sacred garden, walled. A steadiness (caressing,...
