by phillipw | Sep 26, 2019 | BE, PA, PO, VE
A Wan Jesus Levitating on His Cross “a poet of melancholy and shadows, of a fragile and intensely personal Catholicism, and of the springtime of love” ~ Edmund White on Paul Verlaine Petite the pieces and emotions, shades And tones—the minor mode prevailing—verse For...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2019 | PH, PL, PO
Corydon and Pastorell: The Poets Paint their Pictures of Unsmelly Shepherds Daydreaming on Perfect Hillsides of Unsmelly Shepherdesses and Tending Unsmelly Sheep Your lies are what we do not want, he said To poets. Plato said imitation Of real things ain’t enough...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PR
“All His Biddings are Enablings ”* — The Higher View Jehovah is in charge. There’s nothing in Our universe outside His widest strength. He works mysteriously to counter sin; No agency, no matter to what length And what extremes it goes, escapes that reach. Negation of...
by phillipw | May 30, 2019 | PO
Seldom Pure and Never Simple: Fawlty Thoughts There’s freedom in the speaking of the truth. I know we’re not supposed to think that such A thing exists. It’s fashionably uncouth, Post-Modernism says, to use the crutch Of common sense. Too many minds have come With far...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2018 | P, PO
Poetry is Not the Lever and Fulcrum of Archimedes “The full-flowering Scottish tradition of Henryson, Dunbar and Douglas was defeated when Scotland was defeated.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The Story of Poetry War changes poetry. Old English verse Had reached an apogee of...
