by phillipw | May 11, 2025 | SO, SU
Academic Naffdom He had a nightmare, sort of. He was charged With setting up a new department of Some sort of sociology. Enlarged It might become Surreal, a Dalí* dove (Because so mild and boring, useless, doomed Because not science) filled with footnotes...
by phillipw | May 4, 2025 | DA, SU
Surrealism and Whatnot Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Painters are not the legislators of the world. They are the prestidigitators of the swirled.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley The silver of the rose...
by phillipw | Mar 30, 2025 | DR, OE, SU, UN
Inside Our Brains and Otherwise Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem We lie in darkness with our souls agog, The midnight hours and those beyond, until We wake to ho hum stuff. We rise as mog And not as...
by phillipw | Jan 1, 2025 | NO, OR, RE, SU
Red Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The red around us means STOP, DANGER, NO If it is human-made. Perhaps it hints Some other code in nature. In the glow Of skies at sunset,...
by phillipw | Aug 17, 2024 | MA, SU
Prescription Aforethought Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It is as if he is an injured pulse Inside a ghost, assuming that a ghost Is more than vacuum. His veins convulse Despair. He thinks he...
by phillipw | Aug 12, 2024 | CH, CO, FR, KN, RE, RO, SA, SU
Compostela or Knock — Wherever Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The saints are dressed in all their silks and gems As never in their holy lives before Their martyrdoms or whatever. The hems Below...
