by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | LO
Loving Water Love’s well is living water or a spring Of liquid life. It comes to us. We search It out. To this encounter we both bring Our liplike offering, mouths as in the church Of adoration. Love is full of thirst For us, as full as we for drink. ...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | LO, MA
Force and the Angels Not Thrown Out from Heaven The lover loving you will die but not The love. His adoration, like a soul, Is made of immortality and wrought Like Jesus, Who, eternal, God and whole Man, wholly man, cannot be killed by death But lived unconquered...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | LO, RO
Tacit The dawn bows slowly over stars, and they Retreat. A woman wakes. Her man has gone. So ends a love and starts another day. So ends a love where constellations shone. The morning star is colorlesss. Its blaze As clear as pain, is focused like the throat In...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | LO
October 8, 1999 “ ‘ Come,’ I said to him. ‘It is time to go now, away from all this and to where we can be alone.’ I was trembling. How many times had I dreamed of this moment. And get it had come so quickly, and there were so many questions I should...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | LO
The Sun Rose Once Beside Our Farther Coast “And my dark soul is happy again, because it does not know how to be anything else for very long, and because the pain is a deep dark sea in which I would drown if I did not sail my little craft steadily over the...
by phillipw | Oct 4, 2019 | FR, LO
Mt. Rainier and Companionship I lie, a lake beneath your mountain range, Beneath your Cascades peaks and steepest sides. I brood and find the highest heavens strange Except that they bend down and stir up tides Because you touch them with rock beauty. Your Crests...
