by phillipw | Jan 18, 2026 | AS, PH, Uncategorized
The Yum Under Wordsworth’s Words “Swallowing is nature’s quest.” ~ Phillip Whidden The barley field is straight, its edges straight And they are not. Its rows are straight and not, Not really. Truth in nature is its hate Of straightness, strictness. Those are items...
by phillipw | Dec 26, 2025 | AS, MY, OR, PH, RE, Uncategorized
The Citrus Grove Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “root and all” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson If you can see a perfect orange bloom, As most such blossoms are, and see them on Their darkling orange branch, and...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2025 | MU, PH, PO, RE
Post-meaningism in Seventeenth-century Japan, Never Mind the Pythia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Do not follow in the footsteps of the Ancients; seek what they sought.” ~ Bashô If no one follows...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | BR, DO, FL, IV, LO, PH, RO, SI, SU, TI, TO, Uncategorized, WE, WO
Lone Ranger Sunshine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some buttered beams of light assured him that His world was not just treacly tombstone jewels. The shafts were shining from a cowboy hat Of boyhood...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | AN, GR, PA, PH, ZE
Zeno of Elea “It is true greatness to have in one, the frailty of a man and the security of a god.” ~ Seneca as quoted by Bacon in Of Adversity Just one reality exists. The rest Subsists in falsity. A paradox Occurs in other thoughts, their falseness best...
by phillipw | Oct 12, 2025 | CO, PH, SE, WH
http://www.phillipwhidden.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Phillip-and-Shakespeare-sonnets-WhatsApp-Video-2025-08-19-at-22.14.39_23e1182e.mp4 Someone Like the Christ Who Cleansed the Temple Speaks from the Tomb When I am gone, dead gone, have left behind My scribblings,...
