by phillipw | Mar 19, 2026 | FO, MA, ME, MO, PA
Marriage Carried On in a Morgue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Sometimes you feel that you are like corpse A necrophiliac ignores. He mounts You more as if it were his duty, warps The meaning of the...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2026 | MA, MO, RO
The French Oscar Wilde Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His soul is cancer’s breath, gray groaning, screams Of falsity. His sleeping slickened snores Of evil fill the room like lava streams In hell, an...
by phillipw | Mar 14, 2026 | CA, MA, MO, RO, SU, SY
Presiding Higher than Priesthood Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you could be a purple pinion’s prayer, What words and incantations would you sing, What syllables would lift you into air Beyond — where...
by phillipw | Mar 7, 2026 | AR, GR, HE, JA, MA
Love’s Labors Cost Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I read that Jacqueline took money from Onassis for her clothes as part of her A Look Back at Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis’s Wedding...
by phillipw | Mar 7, 2026 | AR, BR, EL, MA, MI, MO, Ta, Uncategorized
Beauties and the Beasts Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Jean-Paul Belmondo, Barbra Streisand, such As these hold up the hope that ugly folk Can be attractive, sexy just as much As Doris Day and Rock. An...
by phillipw | Mar 2, 2026 | LO, MA
Families Loathe Fervor A scarlet man, his most important parts Cut deep, cut off, his throat and windpipe cut, His manliness removed: his corpse imparts The scarlet truth of love. His eyes would shut Before the blood goes hard like crimson. He Has her beside...
