by phillipw | Jul 21, 2025 | CH, HE, RI, Uncategorized, VE, WA
Rimbaud and Verlaine Wrote a Sonnet Praising the Male Asshole, Each Writing Every Other Line Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.” ~ Shakespeare writing as a...
by phillipw | May 28, 2025 | RI
The Truest Stone Will Cry Out Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you were water stored inside a stone, What should your color be? Would blood choose blue, A brilliant blue, a blue that God would own As...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2024 | IN, RI
Apprehension Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You think that you are seeing him because You see his face and hair. Of course you know That other parts are hidden like the laws Of physics...
by phillipw | Jul 14, 2024 | RI, WA
Wagner After Cosmetic Surgery Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem There’s nothing wrong with Wagner opera that Some major surgery would not improve. Declamatory singing from the fat Voiced tenors, fat...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2022 | AR, LE, LU, PA, RI, RO, VE
Verlaine, Rimbaud, Lucien Létinois Verlaine’s emotions are too distant, far Removed and cleft from violets of verse He filled French veins with, each line a devoir Of sorrow, since his feelings were as terse As AK-47 rounds. His lines Were written out like blade...
by phillipw | Feb 21, 2022 | CH, JU, RE, RI, SO
Inner, not Outer Rightness 12 Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them … , with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and...
