by phillipw | Jan 4, 2026 | PA, RA, WH
Small and Great Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A rat in Bracken Lane runs straight across My path and all of living meaning fills The world. We do not need a plane to cross The seas. Safaris with their...
by phillipw | Jan 4, 2026 | JU, NO, PA
Julian the Apostate was Proclaimed Emperor in What are Now the Precints of Notre Dame de Paris When Julian the emperor became The master of the realm, his men proclaimed His highness. Then the giant changes came. This heir of Constantine thought he had shamed The...
by phillipw | Dec 28, 2025 | PA
The New Year, the New Sabbath Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel The sameness comes again. The sameness comes As difference. Paradox dwells...
by phillipw | Dec 28, 2025 | PA
The New Year, the New Sabbath Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel The sameness comes again. The sameness comes As difference. Paradox dwells...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | NO, PA
Nonko, a Seventeenth-century Ceramicist Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The black bat makes its sounds beyond my ears, A pitch too high for human nerves to hear, But, is there, like ultraviolet tears From...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AN, GR, PA, PH, ZE
Zeno of Elea “It is true greatness to have in one, the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” ~ Seneca as quoted by Bacon in Of Adversity Just one reality exists. The rest Subsists in falsity. A paradox Occurs in other thoughts, their falseness best...