by phillipw | Sep 18, 2026 | BL, CH, LO, NA, SP, SU
Loveliness Despite the Difficulty of the Long Word “Logarithmic” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood vast and tiny The spiral of the...
by phillipw | Sep 11, 2026 | 9/11, IS, MU, SE, SU, TW
Before the Fall of Would-be Corpses Numbers 35:33 KJV Isaiah 47:11 KJV An English lesson of the sort he gave In ordinary secondary schools Left students (and himself) not zinged — not grave With stunning revelations. Grammar rules And Blake could be oppressive in...
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...
