by phillipw | Mar 25, 2026 | RO
This Much You Can Bet On Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If youth and beauty are the only things Worth having, much above all others, then You know what you must do. You find their wings Outside yourself...
by phillipw | Mar 25, 2026 | MA, RO, WE
Romeo and Juliet, Those Innocents Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The big mistake they make was not in love. The massive error was in thinking they Should rush to marriage in unthinking shove. This pair...
by phillipw | Mar 22, 2026 | HE, MO, RO
Pox-marked Identical Twin Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My heart is like the moon, the cratered sphere, The fissured moon so badly damaged that It wanders looking for itself both there and here In...
by phillipw | Mar 21, 2026 | BI, BL, FR, LO, MA, RO
Blended Blood Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I want your blood inside my heart. I want My blood inside your auricles, your Enlarging ventricles. I want to haunt Them all with scarlet love. I want...
by phillipw | Mar 16, 2026 | MA, MO, RO
The French Oscar Wilde Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His soul is cancer’s breath, gray groaning, screams Of falsity. His sleeping slickened snores Of evil fill the room like lava streams In hell, an...
by phillipw | Mar 15, 2026 | AZ, HU, RO, SA, Uncategorized
Et Tu, Romantic Love? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You know caress and cramming force combined. You know exactly what is meant. The flight Arises from caress. Cramming does the grind That causes...
