by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | MO, PO
Modernism’s and Post Modernism’s Mobs Let’s wreck the things of beauty just because We’re bored and new. Let’s wreck the lovely old Things out of jealousy. Let’s break their laws Lest we learn we are lousy. Let’s be bold, Destroy the music, art, and writing if We...
by phillipw | Apr 25, 2020 | AN, MA, MO
Who Gives a Fuck about Who the Mother of Mohammad Was? “Buddhist texts do not think it necessary to give her a stable name.” ~ Nayanjot Lahiri, Ashoka in Ancient India If you are destined for a Cheops place In history, your mother does not need A chiselled name. Men...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | CH, FR, MO, ST
Saint Julien-le-Pauvre, August 25, 2017, Dusk The icon held in holy dark behind The altar has a sacred candle lit In front of gilded beauty. Meaning lined Up from the flame agrees there on the armpit Of Christ in blessing. Steinway black and white Sends Chopin glory...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | CA, MO, RO
Meaning through Cosmic Hush like Unheard Throat Singing ‘If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss gazes into you.’ ~ Friedrich Nietzsche The positive and negative commune. The cloven orange canyon strata yell In silence, paralyzed agony hewn And made of...
by phillipw | Apr 9, 2020 | DE, MO, PO
Centuries before Sappho Praised Men and Women Pre-echoes of that verse, ancient Greek In poetry, go back so far that lost Verbs, Indo-European ones, can almost squeak Through Sappho. It is like they are embossed Behind her blond papyrus. Her inked lines Were written...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | EA, MO
Void What gives the Easter Island statues worth? Their meaning is beyond us. Since the faith That raised them died, is it their height, or girth, Or weight, or eeriness? Each stony wraith Of that religion is so foreign to Us now that it is less...
