by phillipw | May 10, 2020 | HE, MO, ST
Unknown Words Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I have a stash of postcards that I got For sending to my mother. She had had A gruesome stroke and so had lost the lot Of all her language. Well, not...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | IS, MO, RE, SP
God Spoke Today I stumbled down the hill to buy some food For Prospero. He does not know that I Had been knocked flat by an extremely rude Disease. In fact he doesn’t know I buy His salmon flakes. He only knows that they Are spooned for him by me. Their...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | EL, JU, MA, MO, Ta
Cleopatras Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, won The love of Roman rulers. Mythic in Her force to ravish first the older one And then seduce the younger man,...
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...
