by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | AB, HE, LE, LI, RO
Petals Fall Around Monticello’s Garden By a collapsed house A pear tree blooming. Here a Battle was fought. ~ Shiki At Gettysburg we walked across the fields. Not far away from there a pear tree bloomed. In Arlington Lee’s mansion has no...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized
Night in a D.C. Suburb and Pressed Against a Car by a Drug Addict Flowers of rapeseed fields… No whale approaches. Darkness Spreads over the sea. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2025 | AP, CU, RO, SE, UN
Love, the Little God Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When love, that little god, is worshiped, he (Or she, not they) hits back with arrows tipped With gold or lead. The gold tips set you free To love the...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2025 | HA, RO, UN
Decades Later in an Unstained Bed Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dream erupted in the morning night As nightdreams do. It brought with it a beast, A simulacrum made to give a fright. So long...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2025 | BO, GU, LO, RO
A Valley of Vapor Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The lover thinks he loves the doings of One man inside this home, Sevillan space, Piano, kitchen, cooking, songs of love On keyboard, playing Spanish...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2025 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
Plumbing Love He thinks no Scottish loch can reach as far As love or be as deep, though deep enough For monsters, deep enough because of scar Gouged out by deeper ice that made this clough Before the glacier went away. The death Of love, the life of love wait...
