by phillipw | Jun 9, 2024 | CH, MA, ST
Where Love Is Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Men’s love is in their arteries and arms. It pulses through their bodies to the skin Of those men touch. Men’s love imposes harms Inside...
by phillipw | May 22, 2024 | FA, MA, OL, PU
He Had to Leave his Old Man’s Hot Water Bottle to Come Out to Work Today Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I do not know quite why, but I can tell The puppeteer I cannot see is old. Perhaps it is his...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2024 | CR, MA, ME, VI
Damned Quixote Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When William Blake went mad, it was his soul That drove him to it. It was far too straight, As straight as light, unerring in its goal When...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2024 | GE, MA, QU, Ta
A Twenty-eight Year Old Baker Boy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We go to evensong and never think Of Tankerfield, not once. The anthems rise More jasmine-like than incense — not the stink Of...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2024 | FR, MA
Father and Friendship My father, he believed in friendship, so Much so he called his two first sons the names Of closest, most beloved of friends. Forgo The family obligations, family claims, Cut straight to purer love than heirdom’s weight, A nobler...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2024 | CH, FR, MA, ST
“One Soul in Bodies Twain” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Seventh Type of Ambiguity ~ William Empson A single photon passes through two slits At once, impossible, yet not quite so. The quantum...
