by phillipw | May 22, 2020 | AR, GA, HE, Ho, HY, JA, JO, LE, ST
Herakles, the Greatest Greek Hero, Outshone His Junior, Jason (a Bright Star), in All Majestic Ways John Keats perverts the “bright star” image. First An ancient poet wrote that Jason shone, “A bright star,” such as one that brides would thirst For, brides-to-be,...
by phillipw | May 21, 2020 | CH, ST, UN
Made Unique by God the Father and Son Almighty: the First Day and the Sixth He had a head so full of dawns that God Must clearly have been there when it was made. Another reason was that he was odd. That also showed divinity had played A kneeling part in his creation...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | CH, DI, GO, ST
TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I passed again that notice board today, The one displaying clever Christian quips That used to make me want to...
by phillipw | May 20, 2020 | CH, LO, OR, RO, ST
Orlando Sanford International Airport Not just the eyes, but lashes too: the young One there behind the check-in desk has hearts- Stopping eyes and lashes, black, highly strung Sublimity of beauty to launch hard parts Of anyone who yearns for grace, launched to...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | AS, GA, ST
Light Killing Light The Milky Way is one prolonged hot sigh Of birth and life and dying. Whites and blues And yellows, splayed across an iron sky, Explode, implode, imbibe each other, fuse Their destinies together, cannibals Of cousins who mistakenly drift near,...
by phillipw | May 18, 2020 | CH, ST
Years of Daydreams while Far Away Withered How plants quite disappear when they have lost Their petals and perfume is like the way You faded from my life. As if a frost, A full and lengthy one, attacked in May, You devastated beauty with your drugs And drink. I came...
