by phillipw | Jun 6, 2026 | BE, LO, SE, WO
Venus Has No Moons Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Now speak to me, my beauty, with the voice Of love. Speak love to me as if a globe, A moon of Venus, might make love rejoice Inside my sternum. Lift...
by phillipw | May 30, 2026 | RO, SE
Holiness in a Tennessee Dim Dusk in a Hollow Grove Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The light of life glows, coolness, and is light Within the firefly, life within its tail. This little greenness flashes...
by phillipw | May 25, 2026 | CO, MA, ON, PE, SE, TE, TH
Him to Hymn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I am driven to a fine extremity; this limb of mine is mine own.” ~ Merry Wives of Windsor, III, sc. 5 His Him parts cause the hymn. You...
by phillipw | May 5, 2026 | FA, FI, PR, SE
Brothers with Single Lenses or with Multiple Lenses Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I had three. Two of them were dragonflies, And one a flitting butterfly. The two Sat down with certainty; each found...
by phillipw | May 2, 2026 | ME, SE
It All Comes Out Wrong in the Wash Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Mosquitoes in the daytime; Buddha hides Them, dark behind him.” Fantasizing such, The poet Issa, sentimental, glides To sacred...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2026 | EA, Ho, NE, RA, SE
Down Near the Earlier Mediterranean Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One hundred thousand years long gone in holes In southern Europe men and women chipped Out arrowheads. Long, long before first scrolls...
