by phillipw | Oct 7, 2019 | PA, ST
What’s the Good of Good? “Stylops parasitize divers other insects such as leaf hoppers, ants, bees, and wasps. The female spend her entire life inside the body of her host, with only the tip of her bean- shaped body protruding. She is a formless lump, having...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | CH, ST
The Immortal Death The undead feelings, vampire-like, pierce deep Into my neck. So steep these fangs, they breach My heart and suck its chambers straight. Screams seep Out through the punctures but numb passions leach The sounds to dust. The sleeping corpse of love...
by phillipw | Oct 6, 2019 | CH, CR, MA, ST
He Never Came to Travel in the Coach Past Regal Fields with Me ‘A chain was provided to bind him to the stake, and after it had tightly encircled him, fire was put to the fuel, and the flames began soon to ascend. Then were the glorious sentiments of the martyr made...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2019 | CH, LO, MO, ST
The Lock of Hair Under my Pillow: The owl-land of dreams is your new kingdom Perhaps around the borderland of dreams Is where you are now. Painful daydreams rise Inside me when a lovely memory streams From pasts that you can never touch. Your eyes Are blanker...
by phillipw | Sep 24, 2019 | BE, SA, ST
St. George’s Chapel, Windsor— The Hallowed in the Holy of Holies Perfection is permitted in the Quire Beyond the nave within the chapel of The Queen, but this is not because the fire From anthems flames up from a godly love In splendid lines of singing and of...
by phillipw | Sep 23, 2019 | CH, ST
Jehovah as Tree Surgeon The early color in the autumn leaves Reminds of love. Each hot and hotter hue Brands deeply on my heart, but none deceives Me even for one moment that bright you Will ever shine against the blue of fall, Of fall’s high heaven once again. ...