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 | Apr 5, 2023 | BR, PA
The Indian Tribes Never Imagined Apollo and Artemis The dry dune grass that grows along this beach, Brevard’s broad beaches, waves in salt-wind breeze Like gods with brush wind movements as they reach To dream of sky. They dream of shores on seas, On distant...
by phillipw | Jan 2, 2023 | FO, PA
Stone-crafted Cyphers of Fact The earliest of flowers of course were doomed As flowers have always been and always will Be, destined for their petal deaths, each groomed By drought, or flood, or mold. They wait until A fire comes by and kills them, butterflies As...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2022 | EV, PA, SU
“Proud as the evening sky” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem While fading on the breeze of thought from one Lost memory to yet another lost, From time before our sleeping, lost or won, A notion...
by phillipw | Aug 22, 2022 | CR, PA
Occam’s Razor Answers the Question of Creation … ’Tis the Gift to be Simple and Sophisticated The ship, complex, is yet not like a whale With all its DNA. The many bits, The hull, the rudder, engine, or a sail, Together move across the sea that hits The bow...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2022 | AR, LE, LU, PA, RI, RO, VE
Verlaine, Rimbaud, Lucien Létinois Verlaine’s emotions are too distant, far Removed and cleft from violets of verse He filled French veins with, each line a devoir Of sorrow, since his feelings were as terse As AK-47 rounds. His lines Were written out like blade...
