by phillipw | Dec 20, 2025 | MA, ME, NE
Apple Blossoms and a Massachusetts Vista Beyond Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Heaven more distant Than the young man’s past, he dreams. Buddha does not help. ~ Phillip Whidden New England waits, my...
by phillipw | Dec 12, 2025 | MA, WI
Told by an Idiot . . . Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem And signifying nothing; . . .but . . . so what? So what if that is true? Remember, though, The villain mouthing that. He is a butt At best, a...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2025 | MA
Farewell “Look thy last on all things lovely,/ Every hour.” ~ Walter de la Mare, “Fare Well” She turns and looks for one last time upon The neighborhood she leaves. The asphalt where The ambulance is waiting isn’t dawn. She turns to see the roses where they blare In...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2025 | MA, WH
Alleluja Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem She carried daisies (marguerites), the flowers Of Chaucer’s love though “showers sweet” refrained From hurting her or wedding light. Those showers Were...
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...
