by phillipw | Aug 1, 2021 | BI, MU, RA, SK
Invisible Music Made Opaque The rain falls down as if in chords, as if A symphony in quietness, playing on The quietest of instruments as stiff As thin percussion ones with brushes drawn Across them, metal brushes on a drum. The only notes we hear as notes...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2021 | BE, BI, MU
Through a Skylark “Things more true and deep” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The skylark rises up, up, up as straight As winds allow. Straight, straight, straight, straight his air As well except that its bright curling spate Is ever changing like all...
by phillipw | Jun 3, 2021 | MU, PE, PY, SY, TC
Outside the Painted Cave Before men thought of poetry, they fell In love with paintings on a petal’s tongue. It started ringing in its silent bell So utter they could almost hear it. Swung From it came colors so much like a song They almost gave men melody, at...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2021 | CO, MU, SO, SY
The Music for Saints’ Ears The snow is like two perfect music realms. It came in perfect purest notes as flakes All night and now the vision overwhelms. In dark it manifested white as lakes Turned first to ice, then covered with true white. High symphonies first...
by phillipw | Mar 28, 2021 | CO, KO, MU, SI
“in music out of sight” Korean courts heard music long ago And watched silk dancing, swirrrrrƏls of silk sleeves. These musics and these patterns were aglow In royal eyes and ears beneath tiled eaves Of palaces but now the motions, notes, And melodies are so far...
by phillipw | Mar 1, 2021 | GI, IL, ME, MU, PH, SY
lluminated Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The secret bird refuses to be known. Its color is a flavor still unnamed, More like a smell than scarlet, a tone, Shennai in voice perhaps. It...
