by phillipw | Dec 22, 2025 | AS, DE, FA, RE
Nothing is Cleaner Gone Than Yesterdays Slower days passing— Gathering up—distant Are things of the past. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] Not anything comes slower than the past. The distance of all yesterdays is huge, More distant than the Milky Way is...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2025 | MU, PH, PO, RE
Post-meaningism in Seventeenth-century Japan, Never Mind the Pythia Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Do not follow in the footsteps of the Ancients; seek what they sought.” ~ Bashô If no one follows...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2025 | DA, FA, RE
Nagging Life Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “laugh and go” ~ “I Meant to Do My Work Today,” Richard Le Gallienne Life feels the force of fact and right behind It follows fantasy. 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 26, 2025 | FA, RE, TR
Over the Rainbow “The Godhead is effective in the living and not in the dead, in the becoming and changing, not in the become* and set-fast, and therefore, similarly, the reason (Vernunft) is concerned only to strive to the divine through the becoming and the living,...
by phillipw | Nov 3, 2025 | RE
In Sum Religion is a deaf and dumb and blind Predicter. It pretends — but that is all. Its walking cane is white and red. Its mind Sees less than canes, its hearing aid too small To hear beyond the grave. Religion speaks. That’s true, but backward like an...
