by phillipw | Jan 2, 2023 | DE, PO, RE, RO, SU
Heart Disease Men think to use gold, trivialities, To turn their superstitions, nonsense of Their so-called thought, to firm realities. They pile up symbols of agape love, Like golden crucifixes, golden rings And gilded crosses all around a snap Of...
by phillipw | Sep 20, 2022 | EV, PA, SU
“Proud as the evening sky” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem While fading on the breeze of thought from one Lost memory to yet another lost, From time before our sleeping, lost or won, A notion...
by phillipw | Oct 24, 2021 | AD, AN, GR, JO, KE, LA, ME, OV, SI, SU
On First Looking into Ovid’s Metamorphoses For Adam Meister and Suyash Singh His hand was heart. His heart was hand. The hand Was heart and more. This hand was soul and mind. He learned that there are more than Sabbaths, bland And filled with trifling things like...
by phillipw | Sep 6, 2021 | OB, RO, SU
Manfred Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Byron thing is what unthinking minds Presume is the Romantic core, that rot. The self, whatever that is, veils and blindstt...
by phillipw | Aug 22, 2021 | DA, SU
The Sun Sets Out Its Triumphs Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sun sets out across the coast. The mist And sea entice it. Morning sun is caught In haar and depths. The noon-time’s...
by phillipw | Aug 17, 2021 | AQ, SA, ST, SU, TH
The Wealth of Logic and of Knowledge For Brian who has a mathematical mind A wealthy heather robes the royal fields. That purple is presented wide and high On hills. They take the flowering as it wields Its majesty then upward to the sky As Thomas raised theology...