by phillipw | Jan 20, 2024 | AG, CE, SA
Love Makes All Things Equal Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem My wants are arms alone. My rest is war; My bed long lasting woes, Sleep unending vigil. Don Quixote, first part, chapter II Suppose we do...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2024 | CA, FA, SA
Insatiable Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Insatiable, your death creates a hole That sucks, a vacuum, a vortex made Of solar wind without a sun. No coal Was ever black as this. No...
by phillipw | Dec 20, 2023 | MY, SA
Jesus Smashes Saul to Blindness with Vision Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the only pure mystics are brutes” ~ George Santayana One mystic that I know who lives with me Is Prospero. He...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2023 | JA, SA, Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Japan has gods. They know their place. Their place Lies set in leaves and flowers, in anger’s sea. These gods all know one law of Stoic face And steel, as rigid as those...
by phillipw | Sep 27, 2023 | CO, GA, LO, PI, RO, SA, SI, ST, TE, Uncategorized
Harlequin in Guise of Tuberculosis Hovering When love is played in luscious settings, clowns Are needed. Sad or comic they can be But never tragic, really, dressed in gowns That do not give the game away. We see Them loving like doom’s humans, threatening clown Just...
by phillipw | Sep 14, 2023 | JO, KE, SA, SI, ST, TE
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “…very witty and intelligent and divinely beautiful….But, alas, very fragile.” Siegfried Sassoon writing to Henry Festing-Jones...
