by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | ME, RE
Renaissance Confusion Leading on to Shelley http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/harris/StudentProjects/Laset/DefenNotes.htm Though poetry is not divine, some minds, Awakening centuries’ minds, turn Plato’s views To make that claim. A lonely scholar winds The esthetician’s...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2020 | MY, RE, TH
Moses, Saint Francis, Saint Teresa ….. Gods used to come. We felt a sudden gust. A moment came, somewhere, somehow, at dawn Or in the twilight. Daybreak caused a thrust Of deepest recognition, then withdrawn. A twilight apparition might remain A fraction longer...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | RE
Seventy Times Seven We never do forgive the dreamers. They Are forced to drink the hemlock. Logic leads Them to the high conclusions. Yes, we pray To some of them because they planted seeds In minds that generations cannot root Out. Still we crucify such...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | MA, RE
Loving Freely If I misunderstand you, and if you Don’t understand me, then we are in love. At least that seems the only way for true Love’s husbandry in marriage. High above Mere passion is the need for mystery. A man whose partner has him figured out...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2020 | EA, RE
Hollow Splendor The hollow Easter bunnies and hollow Metallic, glossy Easter eggs in foil Are brownly easy enough to swallow, Milk chocolate being what it is. Smooth voile On tongue, as light and pleasant to the taste, They seem to be denials of the thing...
by phillipw | Mar 3, 2020 | RE
Just A little girl just old enough to be Still in a pushchair reaches up and clings To father’s trousers pocket. It’s just that she Wants reassurance. Papa bends and sings A ditty, almost tuneless. That’s enough. Along the way a little boy desires...
