by phillipw | May 25, 2026 | PE, RO, Sonnet
Imagination Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We build up fancies in our minds too much, Like sonnets in a sequence, or a plot Inside a Mills and Boon romance. A touch Of madness like divine ideas is...
by phillipw | May 18, 2026 | RO, Uncategorized
More Like Exoplanets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The planets, Saturn, Jupiter and those Beyond we know about, a bit; but slight Our grasp of them. We know them like the floes Of Arctic ice, but...
by phillipw | May 10, 2026 | CH, RO, ST
Charles Randall Stanfield in a Friday Evening, Sacred Singing’s Sabbath Service Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “The kindliest symptom, yet the most alarming crisis in the ticklish state of youth” ~...
by phillipw | May 4, 2026 | BL, MY, RO, WI, WO
Blake District Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem What Wordsworth felt about the rocks is just About as crucial as the way that they Regarded him. If they cried out in dust About the lakes and hills,...
by phillipw | May 3, 2026 | MO, RO, TO
There is No God Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Our loves go on. Mosquitoes come and go But mostly come as faithful as the saints Who hug their holiness as martyrs, slow To give up. They avoid...
by phillipw | Apr 24, 2026 | MA, PA, RO
The Moth for the Testosterone Star Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One truth that adolescence taught you hard Is loving is far better than the love You get. Both tall and sharper than the Shard In...
