by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | CO, PO, SA, Uncategorized
Self-inducing Cyphers Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Great lines not self-fulfilled will seldom come. If lines to do not fulfill themselves, no life Will fill them. Circumstance may make them...
by phillipw | Aug 23, 2025 | AS, FO, PR, SA, Uncategorized
It Is as If Giotto Knows the Utter Truth “A man becomes a monk and after several years he gets satori, but what has happened to his common sense? Without common sense it is impossible to please God.” R. H. Blyth, vol. 5, p. 21 There’s ignorance and then...
by phillipw | Aug 6, 2025 | AS, DN, MY, SA, TI, Uncategorized
The Lightning of Sinai and the Thundering Silence Under the Bodhi Tree Belong Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemp orary poem No dark divides the union of the world With man and woman. Separation sighs Away upon...
by phillipw | Jul 17, 2025 | BR, SA
“The Foolishness of Unbreeching” ~ San Polo; Stigmatization Leading to Stigmata on Naked Torso and Hands and Feet Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Saint Francis gave his father’s clothes straight back To...
by phillipw | Jun 19, 2025 | BU, SA
Sacred Blah Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The pain, the pain, the pain caused Buddha to Withdraw from lfe, the tawdriness of rows Of shops in nowhere tows, the pious queue To plead...
by phillipw | Jun 16, 2025 | EN, HA, SA
Perfect Poem’s Paradox Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The scholars say that haiku does not aim For hugeness and eternity; ideal Perfection; or divinity’s pale flame — In fact three lines hope only...