by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | AD, AU, BO, CA, JO, JU, MA, NA
Modern Improvements I find it faintly droll that Caesar had No clue about Napoleon and Hitler, that Augustus never knew how ultra bad That Mao and Josef Stalin were. How flat Those Caesars would have felt if only they Had known how pipsqueak they would seem compared...
by phillipw | May 3, 2020 | BE, LO, MA, NA, SE
Narcissus Was the Perfect Lover in the Heights of Maleness, Leaping, and Diving Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Narcissus did not know. He came to love His own clean image, glossy, bright, and pure,...
by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | AR, DA, NA, PR
Appearances I go to choral evensong and sit In regal beauty in the queen’s own free Saint George’s Chapel. I have used my spit To cut the pain a corn has caused to me When I put on my snakeskin shoes, the blue ………. Ones, Hugo Boss. ...
by phillipw | Feb 18, 2020 | NA, PS
The End of the Cretaceous in Nazi Germany At times our ids rise upward and become A sort of luminescent threat like prints Upon the shore of dinosaurs. A dumb Impression haunts us. The three-clawed track glints With something previous to evil. This Trail,...
by phillipw | Feb 16, 2020 | NA
His Soul Grips Him from the Depths Narcissus’ soul reached up just high enough From depths of water to invoke his love. His image seized him. Its embrace was rough, More like a rape. His beauty was above, Two times, upon the surface of the pool, And higher still...
by phillipw | Nov 17, 2019 | NA
Ugly Beauty You might want to read this sarcastic version of the Greek myth http://www.shmoop.com/echo-narcissus/summary.html before you read the sonnet. The music comes from speakers. Radio 3 broadcasts strains and sounds. They’re more like...
