by phillipw | Feb 28, 2020 | BE, MA
True Beauty I watched true beauty as the bus rode past The landscape Oxfordshire rolled out. The nose Sat nobler than the slopes that will outlast Him, but its shape turned hillsides into prose. Those poems, though they now were only thought In...
by phillipw | Feb 25, 2020 | BE, MA
He The way he makes us feel is like the vaults In high cathedrals. High and higher still They rise within our hearts with all their faults Though far above us like a sacred grille He sets out forms for irises and souls. The complications of the...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2020 | FR, MA
Slapped in the Face with a Kipper “How much more agreeable it is for two male friends to live together than for a man and a woman.” ~ St. Augustine The problem with the saints is that they’re saints, Ignoring all the hints. They’re working out A...
by phillipw | Feb 24, 2020 | JA, MA
Dickinson and Other Obscurities as Sunspots However forgettable you find your voice to be, you hover on the surface of the sun. ~ Jaime Mathis … Like Emily you let the others tell Your hymn-like verses’ quality and state. You wait for others’ to...
by phillipw | Feb 23, 2020 | MA
Anger I hear a voice, a male one, coming through The trees. Excited like a trumpet but A deeper tone, its beauty like a blue And gold cock pheasant with a macho strut, The noise brings fierceness to my ears. I lean Towards it hoping I will hear its...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2020 | HA, LO, MA, PA
Hawaii Teaches Us the Truth The thought of love as a manicured lawn Is more a maniac’s idea than real. This explicates why marriage rules are drawn Up mincingly by gods and men who feel That actualities must be ignored. These legislators manicure the turf And tamp...
