by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | EL, MA, PR, QU, SE
H.R.H. Prince Philip His limbs have shrunk. The skin is slack And wrinkled like his balls have always been Though it is paler, thinner than that sack. The hairs that used to stick out from each shin Evaporated years ago and yet She still remembers him hunching...
by phillipw | May 8, 2020 | CA, PR
Food Vincit Omnia Today as Prospero came bounding in When he was called for breakfast, his black tail Was whanged out wide. He clearly thought a sin Had been committed, that some other male Had dared to enter our cat’s little patch Of territory, or...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | AL, PA, PE, PR, RO, SE
Zip, Zap, Slap Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem That oops-ish, Oh My Gosh-ish feeling comes https://www.bwpawards.org/winners2017#&gid=1&pid=1 Sometimes, yes even to an amphipod It seems. The...
by phillipw | May 2, 2020 | AR, DA, NA, PR
Appearances I go to choral evensong and sit In regal beauty in the queen’s own free Saint George’s Chapel. I have used my spit To cut the pain a corn has caused to me When I put on my snakeskin shoes, the blue ………. Ones, Hugo Boss. ...
by phillipw | Apr 27, 2020 | AN, IN, PR
Disc World: Soapstone Discs Found Thousands of Years Later in a Dried Up Watercourse Millennia ago, before CDs And DVDs, artistic discs were made In India with carved motifs to please Their owners. Birds were set into a braid With animals around the edges. ...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | CH, PR, RO
Unmasked I never dreamed I’d be a drag queen on God’s Grand Canal, a golden-nylon-haired One with the face of Princess Di, a swan That Dalí would be proud of, if he dared. I never dreamed I’d be impregnated By Charles, the Prince of Wales, while riding...
