by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | LO, MA, PA, RO
Edgar Allan Poe was Wrong The perfect poem is about the death Of perfect beauty. That is what glum Poe Asserts, an ivory-like release of breath From some Evangeline, a sigh like snow From some expressive woman’s breast and lips. Do you suspect he meant a young one...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | AE, AN, BE, ES, MA
Silenced Pigments Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The shadows on a marble sculpture mean As much or more than its undarkened white. They have a message, vivid as that seen Upon the surface of a...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | AL, BU, MA
Physiognomy as Prophecy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Discovery of The Tombs of Alexander the Great’s Father and Son in Vergina The fact that Alexander’s nose was long Perhaps portended...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | CH, FR, GR, MA, MO, ST
A Mortal Passenger Close to Immortality I move now like a ghost who carries you Inside me. Others cannot see the real Me. Certainly they do not have a view Of you within me. Only slumps reveal The weight I bear because of beauty in My body, loveliness that you...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | AN, MA, OL
Zero Truth from Ancient India or the Olmecs It wasn’t an Islamic scholar who First formulated arithmetic’s zero. No matter how much Muslims might want to Deny that fact, the actual hero, An ancient not even slightly linked with The Arab world, did it. The simple fact...
by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | FR, LO, MA
Low Level Loves For most of us baize friendship is a low Replacement for the brocade kinds of love. It hums along, not singing. It is slow Compared to passion which is far above It, or at least in poetry it is. A man needs buddies, yes, of course, but they...
