by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | MA, NO
A Blunt History of Two Early Novels “…the blunt end of that mighty engine … presented itself at the entrance…” ~ Fanny Hill When novels long ago were male, male, male And not just written by a man, they tended to Be read by men and women, not like pale Ones written by...
by phillipw | Dec 6, 2025 | FE, MA, SE, SI
Romantic Male Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Today I saw a novel with the name A Song of Me and You. The order of The pronouns says it all. In loving’s game We’re tempted to remark in most men’s...
by phillipw | Nov 29, 2025 | AN, MA, OR, PE, SE
Panoply of Penis Thoughts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The joke’s that men’s alternative to brain Is at the pointed end of penis. There Man’s other thinking organ wants to strain The various imagined...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2025 | IN, MA, WE
Epithalamium Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The love affair continued only long Enough to give him throbs, bypassing pain, (Yet pleasure’s pain). That pain was not as strong As stinging needle prick...
by phillipw | Nov 18, 2025 | EP, FR, MA, ON, Uncategorized
No Matter How Golden the Beach or Blue and Deep and Wide the Ocean, Footprints are Needed An Ontological and Epistemological Sonnet “Know thyself” ~ the temple at Delphi If Friday left no footprints, would he be A Man? If Robinson had not been quite So lost in...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | BR, CO, DE, DI, MA, WH
Stepping Into the Ambulance that Would Take Her to the Thames Valley Hospice Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden When I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ Shakespeare, Othello “Courage is life, living. Life is change; change is suffering; the will to...
