by phillipw | May 13, 2020 | BR, LU, SE
Gilded Scales Hanging from a Limb Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem http://www.photopedagogy.com/uploads/5/0/0/9/50097419/6978873_orig.jpg “Beauty will be CONVULSIVE or will not be at all.” ~ André...
by phillipw | May 12, 2020 | AN, AR, CH, HE, LO, PA, SE
Lucifer and the Other Multi-winged Ones, Seraphim and Cherubim “The deep lunges, forehead pressed to forehead, witnesses to rise and fall of chest and ever expanding wings.” ~ Jaime Mathis, “Blood Blister,” It Rises and Falls Those angels making love before the fall,...
by phillipw | May 12, 2020 | MA, SE
Hardness Goes Something Like Eternal and Liquid Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Time stutters in your arms. It expands, diaphragm pushing down and out to make room for seconds smoothing into hours.”...
by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | AD, AN, AP, AR, HE, IN, MA, MY, SE, VE, VU
Primitive Sophisticated Truth Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem ………. When Greeks believed that nature’s aspects moved As gods and goddesses, as wind and fire, Then Bóreas came...
by phillipw | May 9, 2020 | EL, MA, PR, QU, SE
H.R.H. Prince Philip His limbs have shrunk. The skin is slack And wrinkled like his balls have always been Though it is paler, thinner than that sack. The hairs that used to stick out from each shin Evaporated years ago and yet She still remembers him hunching...
by phillipw | May 7, 2020 | AD, MA, SE
Médecins Sans Frontières …. Now even doctors for a charity Must be sexed up. They go to help in war Zones, in the broken bone severity Of mass catastrophe, but requests for Donations now require the sex appeal That permeates our whole society. The patient lifts...
