by phillipw | Jan 19, 2025 | CH, SE
Perversion to Uncouth When families shun their sons, religion kills Whatever it can find. What faiths love best Entails the worst, Jesuitical skills To shunt the highest laws to sidelines, wrest Those laws away from central truths, and shrug Those principles...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2024 | LO, SE
Brown and Pink Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bracken. Public domain. The bracken, just like life, turns back to rust. They make their way up through it, rustling through The brown. They...
by phillipw | Dec 10, 2024 | SE, TR, Uncategorized
“As all the Heavens were a [Hollow] Bell” the music of the spheres If I could fall forever through a space We can’t imagine, through the space where spheres Are less than spirit, where mere physics’ place Is less than we can see, through...
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...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2024 | AN, MA, RO, SE
Antelope Canyon, Valentine Cavern Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The caves of love, romantic love, each old Like stone they carve through, wait inside the chests Of boys and men. Each curving...
by phillipw | Aug 12, 2024 | SE, Uncategorized
Moon Garden in Kenya The half-moon had a nightmare. Lovebirds bashed Around inside their cage set up beside The Great Rift Valley. Thorns of roses slashed The air despite their pure white blooms. A bride (That dark-haired spider) ate her husband fresh From...
