by phillipw | Feb 13, 2020 | LO, RO
My Third Grade Teacher Taught that Blue & Brown Don’t Go Together Well I would make blue orbs to look at you, Blue orbs of crystal or of clearer cool. My own blue fronted orbs, each iris blue For looking for perfection, for the jewel Perfection of your browner...
by phillipw | Feb 12, 2020 | RO
All in Good Times: Two Sonnets on “Love is Blind” Let’s live in darkness, you and I, and fail To see each other as we are. Let’s start By touching, reading one another’s Braille With fingertips, and mouths, and tongues (each part Most sensitive to love). Let’s...
by phillipw | Feb 11, 2020 | AS, BI, LO, RO, ST, TW
SR PW Two stars that give off light unlike the light Of other stars, so different from their rays That creatures on far distant planets, bright As it might be, cannot hope to see our blaze, We circle in our gravity around Each other, close, so close...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
The Greats Among the great “there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love” ~ Sir Francis Bacon Not Yezid with Habiba, Abelard With Heloise, not Alexander great With love for silk Bagoas, the king’s hard Imperial thrusts...
by phillipw | Feb 9, 2020 | AD, DA, JO, LO, RO, UN
When I Wake Up, I am Absent from Thee ‘As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.’ 2 Corinthians 1:7 Two continents and long tides far away You live alone now and we sleep apart. The beauties of my high spec life hold sway,...
by phillipw | Feb 7, 2020 | LO, RO
A Toxic Spirit like HIV in Me An incubus or succubus is in My chest—too hard to tell if it is male Or female. It injects a mix of sin And sexuality. My heart is frail With stupid love and so it takes the dose As if it were prescribed for endless joy. That spirit...
