by phillipw | Dec 15, 2025 | AP, PO, VE
Docility Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The statues of the heroes and the gods Stare straight. Immortal marble makes them stare. Though they were painted once against the odds Of transience, the...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | MY, PO, RE
Gold, Frankincense and Blur Ambivalence is what it’s all about. The certainties that you were taught with kids Around you in the Sunday School, now shout As ambiguities., our sleds on skids. The certainties have turned to shades of gray, Those things once colorful...
by phillipw | Nov 2, 2025 | AM, DE, PO
Poetry Means Irradiated Mist and Not Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The point of poetry is mist inside The mind. The poetry itself is not A smog but poetry requires its bride To wear a veil. What...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2025 | FI, NE, PO, ST
“To Unpathed Waters, Undreamed Shores”: My Hauling Work Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if you pull upon a net And bring up starfish—and . . . with them the stars, The Pleiades, the seven stars...
by phillipw | Oct 21, 2025 | PO, SI
Fish Hauled in as Galaxies Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A poem casts its net, spreads wide across Much more than sea, across the oceans, wide Across the cosmos, snags the Southern Cross And nebulae,...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2025 | AN, GL, PO
The Poem Ne Plus Ultra Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We want a poem that obliterates The poet — and all poetry — , that sings In music ears will never hear. The gates Of heaven made of...
