by phillipw | Apr 8, 2020 | LO, LU, RO
Atheism “The lyric had functions in religious and other terms.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 10 So what has changed? Nothing really, except We now make lust itself a god, divine Without the need of Venus. We have swept The gods...
by phillipw | Apr 3, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
Like Casanova and St. Francis of Assisi His attitude to love is like a sore He dressed in velvet. He endures the stain Because he likes its dirtiness. What’s more, He thinks that love should leave a softened pain. He nurtures loves, so called, as if he were A...
by phillipw | Apr 2, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
The Virus: Innoculation against Sentimentality The best fact of romance is that it cures You of romance. You fall in love with man Or woman, girl or boy, and that secures Protection from this illness. That will ban It from your later years. It’s best in youth,...
by phillipw | Apr 1, 2020 | LO, RO
Air Perfumed with Smouldering Frankincense Comes Ashore Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II The way that Paris floats around inside The heart and levitates around my mind, The way gold-trimmed, though black, gondolas glide So near my lungs and try...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2020 | Ho, IS, LO, LU, RO
Testosterone Trumps Religions “Pleasure is the most insolent of all things; and … in amatory enjoyments, which are said to be the most powerful of all, even perjury has been pardoned by the Gods, as if pleasure was like a child, incapable of...
by phillipw | Mar 26, 2020 | LO, RO, SE
Why It Is Not Good to be a Small Brown Butterfly A found poem from The Physiology of Love by Paolo Mantegazza and the book The Natural History of Love by Morton Hunt Caressing fondly with their wings, they reach The wing of one the other in a kiss. The silk and velvet...
