by phillipw | Apr 13, 2026 | OX, PA, SY
Ultimate Black Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The water’s sound turns black – more dark – black, black, The black of night before the thought of stars Occurred, the dark before all light,...
by phillipw | Apr 7, 2026 | OX, PA
Pasts Go into Present Living Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our past goes into present, living, past And living both combined, combined as one, Continuous from primal first to last Divided not and...
by phillipw | Jan 29, 2026 | OX, PA, SU
More Sacred than Surrealism Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When sun and shadow blend and do not nix Each other; when the smile and frown are one; When symphonies are silence and their mix Is utter — and...
by phillipw | Jul 7, 2024 | CA, DE, OX, PA, PR
Shade The quiet, silent things send echoes through Each other. Rosebush leaves above the tom That naps beneath them are more quiet, strew Their silence down, reverberating calm On nearly silent breathing through his two Pink nostrils held by...
by phillipw | Dec 31, 2023 | NE, OX, PA, TI
Noxymoron The paradox of New Year’s midnight Eves Is ever new and ever old because The endless carries on. The moment cleaves The past from present in unchanging laws And also causes pasts and presents to Cleave hard together changelessly the...
by phillipw | Jul 26, 2021 | CH, OX, PA
Changed, Remained, Unaltered A midday moon high up above a bird That sings from nowhere, everywhere, will soon Become a paleness in the blue, half slurred In slighter blue of evening’s later sky. That afternoon another songbird tied The time between the noon...
