by phillipw | Dec 31, 2025 | NE
New Year Muddled Catawampus This New Year’s morning; There’s nothing good or bad, just Us human beings. ~ Shiki [Englished by Phillip Whidden who suggests this title for it: “Myopic”] The poet says that New Year’s Day provides Him neither good nor bad, just...
by phillipw | Dec 20, 2025 | MA, ME, NE
Apple Blossoms and a Massachusetts Vista Beyond Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Heaven more distant Than the young man’s past, he dreams. Buddha does not help. ~ Phillip Whidden New England waits, my...
by phillipw | Dec 18, 2025 | BR, FL, Ho, NE, OR, PO
They More Royal than Her Majesty Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The orange grove is far from shrouded with The fragrance of the orange blooms. They Are wrapped in rhapsody of bees. The myth Is nectar,...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2025 | LO, NE, RO
In the Arteries Inside the Artesian Chest Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Artesian arteries are filled with hosts Of angels. They go flowing from the heart, Are heaved along by love, replacing ghosts In...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Sep 7, 2025 | CO, NE, TW, Uncategorized
The Connecticut Twin Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I dreamed I had a twin up north, more twin Than not, not quite conjoined and not the same; . . . Identical in soul. Loves underpin Our...
