by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | DR, MA
We Wake and Find our Lives were Dreaming Our dreaming makes reality unreal— The dreaming makes the universe more dream Than actuality. Then daydreams feel More vibrant than our lives and make them seem A vanishing mirage, pastel and pale, Like watercolors spread...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | LO, MA
Force and the Angels Not Thrown Out from Heaven The lover loving you will die but not The love. His adoration, like a soul, Is made of immortality and wrought Like Jesus, Who, eternal, God and whole Man, wholly man, cannot be killed by death But lived unconquered...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | AE, BE, ES, MA
The Right Register: Ecclesiastes and the Sub-continental Indian Christian at Choral Evensong, St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | CH, CR, MA, ST
He Never Came to Travel in the Coach Past Regal Fields with Me ‘A chain was provided to bind him to the stake, and after it had tightly encircled him, fire was put to the fuel, and the flames began soon to ascend. Then were the glorious sentiments of the martyr made...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | BE, MA
Imperfections He stares out, haughtiness implied in brows Here blackly burned above uneven eyes. That large, uneven nose might just arouse Distrust. Unevenly an eyebrow lies Distorted at the nose as if it grew More chest hairs there like those revealed inside His...
by phillipw | Sep 29, 2019 | LO, MA
Testosterone “live long life in little space” ~ John Keats To live long life in little space, to live And love within the boundaries allowed Are manly limitations. We forgive The universe, in fact are scarlet proud To...
