by phillipw | Jan 1, 2020 | PE
Imperfect Peaks El Pico Viejo’s unrhythmic name Turns raggedy this sonnet’s scansion line. Don’t use the crater’s damaged ledge to blame The mountain too much, though. To define Ideal exquisiteness do not allege That everything must be perfection. High...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2019 | PE
One Peony One peony has blossomed late. To hold Her globe of fragrance up in bravery Is what she wants. Those petals would enfold The smiles of other pinks and there would be The others’ laughter, if she had her way. Alone she meets the sunshine,...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2019 | AE, BE, DE, ES, PE
Easter Peonies Pink peonies are dying. Only those Most hidden in the shades from one near bush Hold on to sturdy hope, to lingering rose Determination not to wilt. These push With frilled resistance, blowse-like guimpes, against That insubstantial...
by phillipw | Dec 25, 2019 | PE
Princesses Rose peonies in darkness do not lose Their glories. They become those Persian, veiled, And silken houris, held in carved screens, whose Dusked satin beauty is both crimped and waled, With nature’s pinking shears and golden edge. Their frilly...
by phillipw | Dec 19, 2019 | CE, GR, PE
Père Lachaise: Four Sonnets in a Sequence– A Visit to the Tomb of Frédéric Chopin; A Visit to the Tomb of Oscar Wilde; A Visit to the Tomb Abelard and Heloïse; A Message from the Grave of Jim Morrison A Visit to the Tomb of Frédéric Chopin Perhaps the worst...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | DE, PE
Glowing Fur I call up all my sleeping pets, ones who’ve Left me, hairy ones especially. I Embrace them in a special, drowsy groove Of dreams and daydreams where these loved ones lie As baskers in a happy sun of bliss Beyond the ones they knew in...
