by phillipw | Jan 24, 2024 | MO
Unending Length and Strength Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If Buddha be correct that everything Is One, the universe, the cosmos, Soul, That all be unity and all these sing In unison, not harmony,...
by phillipw | Jan 13, 2024 | AE, AR, BE, CH, ES, MO, underarm hair
Microbes’ Excretion in the Priests’ Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I ask you, what’s the use of beauty if It’s undermined by nuns and monks at prayer, Their hands unknown to you that have a whiff...
by phillipw | Nov 30, 2023 | MO
Bound No dirty atom or electron can Exist. No dirty god can reign supreme Since that would not be deity. A man Cuts off another person’s leg. Does gleam Of goodness come from that, or bad Come pulsing from it? What if he has cut It as...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2023 | CH, LO, MO, Uncategorized
More Lovely than a Golden Spiral Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The chambered nautilus propels his shell Through nighttime waves. He sails much longer than His cousins, octopus and squid. The swell...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2023 | IN, MA, MO
Helen as Pathetic 1950s Florence Nightingale A mother nearly stumbles in beside The beds, each boy in misery of flu As if in torture chambers. They have cried Themselves to whimpering sleep like kittens mew When dying. Husband also mashed down, slammed In fever,...
by phillipw | Jun 28, 2023 | MO, TR
The Poetry of the Triune God: a Cord of Three Strands Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.” tttttt Eternal gyres together one times three. The...
