by phillipw | May 2, 2021 | MA
Ethan and Henry Holiday Best Wishes Enlarging beauty for you both is what The Christmas angels want. High hopes are what they want for you. A glut And pile of happiness are what they’d flaunt Now here in Christmas goodies just for you Alone, you two, because you like...
by phillipw | May 2, 2021 | IS, MA, OL, ZE
Zero Truth from Pagan Mesoamerica An ancient Olmec scholar dreamed it up. He worked it out within his Allah-less thought. He did not need to use a carved stone cup Of baby blood to figure math’s round nought. This Olmec thinker lived three thousand years (Or maybe...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2021 | JO, MA, PR
Implacable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The sea is as deepe in a calme as in a storme.” ~ John Donne, Sermons, Mundus Mari “If hypothetically Mount Everest were placed into the trench at this...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2021 | MA
The Constituents of Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The man is made of mud and semen, thought Of course, and other juice, testosterone And throbbing blood. A suited astronaut Or physicist is...
by phillipw | Apr 10, 2021 | FE, MA, RO
Romanticism The truth is that romance is not romantic In being Polynesian, scented with Chanel, Hermès, Yves . . . not necromantic, Not in the least unusual. That myth That it’s romantic is stupendous in Its chutzpah. What romantic really is Is more a...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2021 | FA, IS, MA, RE, SA, ST
Righteous Believers Stop their Ears When Stephen, dragged for stoning, knelt at last, The Middle Eastern mob predicted our Times. Vicious truths lived, brutal, in the past And live outrageously. Their hour Is near, unending in that hateful realm. This hatred...
