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...
by phillipw | Oct 1, 2025 | BU, MA, Uncategorized
Needy Men Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The love inside a man needs rest though not Inside a woman, maybe. He must turn To other things or he will be too fraught Perhaps like baited bull. The...
by phillipw | Sep 21, 2025 | BE, MA, Uncategorized
God, Christ and Adam First of All Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A place that never saw the beauty of A man, the beauty, masculinity— The beauty of his manhood—cannot love The truth of God’s and Christ’s...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2025 | MA
How Men Dress Most men don’t care about their dress except They want to say, “I’m male.” Now that’s OK Except it’s boring. Women are not swept Away by zinging clothes. Gals’ butts may sway In fashion gay designers make for hips For men to stare at...
