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...
by phillipw | Sep 16, 2019 | EL, PH
A 0.000000000000000000000000001cm Deviation ‘Perfect Round: The electron is almost a perfect sphere, a study has found. The elementary particle—a basic building block of matter—deviates from absolute roundness by less than 0.00000000000000000000000001cm. If the...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2019 | PH
The Guys Who Hated Poetry in School In 28 cramped pages dark matters Of physics are reduced to theories With names that almost no one knows, splatters Of equations and answers to queries That none of us had asked. The eye trembles While traveling at the speed of...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2019 | LO, PH, WH
An Affair with Sonnets . . . For Eternity “Eternity in an Hour” ~ William Blake If kisses were less mortal and could last As long as death, your lips would lead to realms Inhabited by gods—and even past Nirvanas since your hot mouth overwhelms Awed...
