by phillipw | Sep 3, 2026 | OD, PO, PT
Sacred Stanzas of Assassination Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Gods—Odin, Bragi—gruesomeness, give lines To bards as shamans. Shame lacks any ruth. Their stanzas grow strict dinosauric spines For...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2026 | BR, NO, OD
Gods of Poetry Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The glint that grows to poetry from gods Glares out to glisten on the tongue of one God, Odin. On the tongue of Bragi lauds Of luminescence of the wars men...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2026 | GA, OD, TE, TV, Uncategorized
Split Screen Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Americans can’t stand an ugly mug In newsrooms. Anchors and reporters must Be gorgeous, male and female, beauty smug In telegenic strength. The...
by phillipw | Jul 29, 2024 | OD, QU
Possibilities as Exotic as Zanzibar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem These things I might have been: streaked tourmaline Stone baked and crushed in lava, or stringed pearls So ancient that they...
by phillipw | Dec 28, 2020 | DE, HE, IM, OD, TE, UL
His Beautiful Son Does Not Have the Brains Odysseus decides he will not die. This glares as clear to him as April light On Ithaca. He knows this is awry So he will have to trick the gods. Some sleight Of mental hand will come to him in time. He guesses he will have...
by phillipw | Jul 16, 2020 | CO, GO, JA, ME, OD, PE, SA, SO, WI
The Big Exceptions The women move in caged in places both In life and plays. In poetry they are Curtailed to Sappho and Corinna. Troth Constricts Penelope. It hems. No spar To take her seas away, she sits at loom, Is trapped at night unpicking her trapped work,...
