by phillipw | Aug 31, 2026 | SU
Dracula Eating Lunch with Victims Impaled around his Feast; a Hairshirt on a Evening Martyr; Murderer’s Garotte in Darkened Alleys; a Postulant’s Pure Innocence the Color of Unopened Morning Pearls Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2026 | AM, FR, IN, JU, PO, SU, UN
Conclusionless Moments Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A present that does not contain the past And future weights as falsity, a rose Of toilet paper. Time contains a vast Uncertainty if prophecy lacks...
by phillipw | Aug 30, 2026 | KA, SU
Ink that Becomes Disappearing Calligraphic Letters Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Why waves are so distraught that they commit White suicides survives as mystery. What makes them angry as they hit the...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2026 | FL, OR, Sonnet, SU
Memory Better than Sunny Daydream’s Ocean Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “And by mere playing go to heaven” ~ Henry Vaughan, “Childhood” in Silex Scintillans (1655) It is as if the river has submerged My...
by phillipw | Aug 14, 2026 | CR, SU, TH
A Universal Indian Fate Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Please let me sing when I am dead above My body. Let me hover there in song And sing above the little shread of love That flesh remembers as I...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2026 | GO, HA, IM, LO, SU, VE
After Xanadu the Muteness of My Heart Crying for Lucifer Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “If only,” says the lover, “I could dream Again the words of reverie in sleep, If I could capture in my chest the...
