by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | CO, PO, SA, Uncategorized
Self-inducing Cyphers Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Great lines not self-fulfilled will seldom come. If lines to do not fulfill themselves, no life Will fill them. Circumstance may make them...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2025 | BY, IN, LO, PO
Enola Gay and Heart Attacks Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poemFOR “where burning Sappho loved and sung” for Donald Anthony Whidden The duty of the poet is to turn The mild surprise, the...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2025 | PO, TR, Uncategorized
“rule them with a rod of iron” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem FIRST WITCH Where the place? SECOND WITCH Upon the heath. The mistiness that many readers think That poets and their mountains should...
by phillipw | Jun 10, 2025 | AE, ES, ID, PE, PO, Uncategorized
The Alchemists Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Man errs, till he has ceased to strive. ~ Goethe, Doctor Faustus The perfect poets, if there be such things, Want lines condensing life...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | AS, IN, PO, SU
The Music of Throbbed Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A poem comes from inner space — and not. The regions round the ribs are where it comes From, or, from in soul’s sun, its mind, a spot...
by phillipw | May 29, 2025 | AE, AR, PO, Uncategorized
“What Is the Price of Those Chintz Curtains?” For most, true poetry seems too like art, Those other arts. The artifice is not What weakens it. They don’t object to heart In verse. The problem is that it is nought (Or less than) in its power to make things change...
