by phillipw | May 22, 2020 | FO, LO, LU, PO, PR
Words without Song: a Sonnet [This sonnet sticks to all the rules for a sonnet except that it is laid out on the page as if it were five paragraphs of prose.] Is love a spate of rhyming in the veins? Or is it even less, a bit of plot (inside a thousand paperbacks)...
by phillipw | May 21, 2020 | BO, MU, PO
World Book Is there a book which you would choose to be The World when this one is destroyed, say, slim Selections of this earth’s best poetry On silk imprinted and with gilded trim? Or would you choose an ivory book of runes Encrypting lost religions...
by phillipw | May 21, 2020 | AN, FO, PO
Two Sides of One Channel, Sea, or Ocean Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A strand, another strand, two banks of one Wide river separate — but offer more. Exotic poetry entails a sun Unseen until the...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | CO, PO, TI, TS, VO
The Legends and the Gods, the Victors and Obliterations Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The flow of cosmic history through this mote We call the world has always been a rush, Not slow like muddy...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | AN, CL, PO, TR
Once was Evil Enough The ancient tragedies of Athens played Upon that stage just once and then were rolled Around themselves in paper. They had made Impressions strong enough and so were scrolled Up, waiting … silently … for who knows what? For paper...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | AR, DE, GA, Ho, PA, PH, PO, RI, SA, VE
Verlaine Agonistes “for me Rimbaud is an ever-living reality, a sun aflame within me, a sun that will not suffer eclipse” ~ Paul Verlaine long after Arthur’s death The Philistines bored out the strongman’s eyes With iron-cold...
