by phillipw | Aug 2, 2025 | LE, LO, MA, PA, SH, WH
Shiva Mahadeva Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The warrior, Mahadeva, holds his love Upon his thighs, and nearby on a pond The lotuses bloom, pink. Nearby, above Them in a Hindu heaven space,...
by phillipw | May 21, 2025 | FE, PA
Parastalks Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem [Obon, The Festival of the Dead in Japan] When pink, a perfect pink, becomes the tint Of death, you know that you are taken to . . ....
by phillipw | May 17, 2025 | PA
Paraclocks The present is so strong, the past has gone To nothing, hovering empty ghost, is lost, As lost as every future with a dawn That never happens. There’s no Pentecost Because we do not need one. I have you. A shoulder that I love is...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2025 | BO, GA, GU, LO, PA, RO, SC
The Lochs, Coldness, Love Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Large lochs move far away and farther. So It seems at least without you near in space And time, in eons time, or nearly slow As that without...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | LO, PA, RO
Roberto Far, far in Costa Rica, far away My friend reads sonnets/villanelles by me. He reads so closely what these poems say That, apprehending, he reveals that he Reads deeply like a CT scan, or like An X-ray — or electron microscopes. If lines...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2024 | MY, PA, SA
Absolute Whole Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Illusion and Enlightenment are one. Illusion and Enlightenment are two. Both dream and firefly fluttering each shun Full grasp, but floating,...
