by phillipw | Oct 15, 2026 | CH, ST
Sabbath Evening Love Feast Becomes a Fresher Pentecost White peonies bloom: It seems no other blossoms Spread petals near them. ~ Kitchi [Englished by Phillip Whidden] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” ~ John Keats This truth is higher than this April youth. He holds...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2026 | CH, SE, ST
The Feed The willow leans, bends Her darkening bosom over Anther of the bloom. ~ Basho [Englished by Phillip Whidden] We hesitate to think how many breasts Of women bent above his heart to take Him in below, how many begging chests With bobbling nipples then began to...
by phillipw | Oct 11, 2026 | CH, ST
Scarface “In the image of God created he him” I will knock at your Gate in the darkness where white Petals disappear. ~ Kyorai [Englished by Phillip Whidden] I wish I had a scar across my face, A scar to force me always to recall You, hardness of your profile,...
by phillipw | Oct 8, 2026 | CH, ST
“almost mad with ecstasy” ~ Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation A man of limbs, a man of limbs and limbs Who cut through limbs and cut through life, appeared As if theophany, he requiring hymns. Not quite theophany he disappeared In lightning’s flash, slashed in...
by phillipw | Oct 7, 2026 | CH, MY, ST
Saint Teresa of Avila Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His thoughts were as a mystic dreams alone And maybe, thus, a pure validity. His loves were like a many legged, high throne That rules a cosmos of...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2026 | CH, DR, FR, MA, NI, Sonnet, ST
To Sleep Above the Sky Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I’m never quite sure my thoughts will take me. All I can do is follow them.” ~ Michel de Montaigne “A thought went up my mind today” ~ Emily...
