by phillipw | Jul 20, 2021 | HU, MA, PR
Jeff and Richard Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When males are born, they have the chance to be Men, toiling on a farm in sweat and muck, Or fishing in the roiling waves the sea Throws...
by phillipw | Jun 21, 2021 | CA, CH, FA, IN, PI, PR, RE, RO, SU
Miraculous Bunkum The minds of pilgrims plod along because They lack the gifts required to see without A relic. Hunkered there inside its gauze Of cloth of gold as if in holy pout, It waits for priests to open up its box Or gate, the reliquary encrusted with ...
by phillipw | May 30, 2021 | BR, DE, HE, MA, PR, VI
The Bridegroom Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He wakes up in the bridal bed. The sheets Are white but crumpled. She is slumped beside Him in a different sleep. Her throat pulse...
by phillipw | May 1, 2021 | LA, PR, RE
Perverse Psychology Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I keep on losing arguments with me. I don’t like losing them with anyone But it’s far worse (a serendipity Unwanted) to face up to...
by phillipw | Apr 26, 2021 | JO, MA, PR
Implacable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The sea is as deepe in a calme as in a storme.” ~ John Donne, Sermons, Mundus Mari “If hypothetically Mount Everest were placed into the trench at this...
by phillipw | Mar 29, 2021 | AN, OB, PR
Eons Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The centuries long committed to the sound Of silence have forgotten colors too. We cannot know these times. They are a mound, That opened, offers...
