by phillipw | Nov 21, 2019 | LO
Liquid Resistance Enfolding skin that covers bulk and flesh Makes paradox of softness, firmness in My arms, themselves a melting strength. We mesh Where holiness combines with soul of sin Or with an element that cannot stain, That cannot be improved. We call...
by phillipw | Nov 20, 2019 | LO
Halcyon Affections There comes a morning when the clipper sails Upon the Caribbean waves of sun, Where warmth caresses billows, basking whales, Cuddling, shining in that deeper love, fun. Then climbs the noon when canvas billows full Towards all happy...
by phillipw | Nov 20, 2019 | DE, LO
The Death of Love The death of love numbs like paralysis Or like a tetanus infection in A purple vein, a poison sans its hiss, A serpent spurting venom lacking sin. This end has lain, lurked voiceless from the start Behind an evergreen, beside a rock, Unknowable to...
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...
