by phillipw | Dec 14, 2019 | EN, PH
After the Promise is Fulfilled Eternity is dawn forever, dawn Across a sky without horizons: light Is never tinged by night or darkness. Fawn Eyes deepen in their beauty and their sight Among immortal branches, bringing new, Fresh...
by phillipw | Nov 26, 2019 | PH
Exposure A young man’s face half-hidden from the lens (By black hat, shadow or the hang of head Like guilt) commands my eyes in some slick “men’s” Designer/fashion magazine. I shed Clichés as macho scales desert my eyes; I...
by phillipw | Oct 31, 2019 | PH
Unthinkable in Philosophy (Certainly not Heidegger) Imagine a philosopher who writes In language clearer than the stars above Antarctic wastes, but warmly like the nights Scheherazade told tales in( to make love Last long enough to be true love). Her thought Would...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | ON, PH
Ontological Problem Solved We bless the darkness first, if we are true To life. We come from darkness in the womb. We live in darkness half our lives. The blue Stars in the sky above us speak of doom Because, like us, they spend their essence far Too fast. In...
by phillipw | Oct 3, 2019 | BL, PH
No Volcanoes of Bleak Lava Anywhere No single thing pours darkness into space, Not one. All bodies give off heat or light, Or store, absorb them, never spray a mace Of blackness whether they are specks in flight Around a nucleus or clustered group Of galaxies around...
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...
