by phillipw | Feb 7, 2025 | AE, OL, RO
God Turned Night to Light, but . . . Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He knew his instincts and he knew them right, As right as when Jehovah ordered space And time, as when His beard proclaimed the light...
by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | AI, BO, ED, GA, LO, RO
On Wings of Longing In future I will fly to Spain to find . . . And find. I hope to find a long-lost past With someone in it, long in heart and mind Of meetings, Edinburgh, Aix . . . memories vast For me, as long as forty years and more. This one I hope to...
by phillipw | Dec 14, 2024 | AN, BA, EP, LE, LO, PO, RO
The Loss of the Louvre Imagine that the world of pictures died And words alone were left. The Instagram And TikTok types would all want suicide. Then poetry would rule; this oriflamme Of language would replace nought one, nought one Of photographs and...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2024 | DE, FA, LO, RO
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reflecting_cavern_lake.jpg Combination Subterranean Fates Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Your blood cells taste of tight infinities When swallowed by my...
by phillipw | Dec 7, 2024 | RO
Breastbone and Thigh with Color of a Manly Love The ivory letters I would set in bones Of love would nearly be invisible Since ivory is too close in paler tones To thigh and breast bone. Indivisible Those colors are in love from me to you. The ivory would be deep,...
by phillipw | Nov 24, 2024 | AB, LO, RO, SE, YA
Lush Blackness Outside and Inside “with false compare” ~ Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 The eyes wait black, the eyebrows, too. The hair On top waves black, thick black. These blacks all teach That black is lovelier than yellow. Swear By black since it is...
