by phillipw | Jul 16, 2020 | AP, ET, IM, OR, SW
Stretching the Eternal Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “the soul’s survival and residual divinity” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 23 The followers of Orpheus, if not The man himself, desired...
by phillipw | May 14, 2020 | DE, PI, SW
Wonder Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you had never seen a swan before And suddenly one glided into view, That instant would be like an open door To white and winged epiphany. The true...
by phillipw | Dec 30, 2019 | SW
Consider the Swan after Sunset Consider how the swan lifts up his wings Above his pinion shape while gliding on The River Thames at Windsor. Athelings Were never quite so handsome in the dawn Of England’s whiteless history (so full Of scarlet slaughter). Not that...
by phillipw | Oct 17, 2019 | AL, SW
Plutarch on the Perfume of Alexander’s Skin “Aristoxenus in his Memoirs tells us that a most agreeable odour exhaled from his skin, and that his breath and body all over was so fragrant as to perfume the clothes which he wore next him” ...
by phillipw | Aug 23, 2019 | BE, SW
Consider How the Swan Lifts Up His Wings Consider how the swan lifts up his wings Above his pinion shape while gliding on The River Thames at Windsor. Athelings Were never quite so handsome in the dawn Of England’s whiteless history (so full Of scarlet...
by phillipw | Aug 13, 2019 | SW
The Thames at Windsor this Sunset The evening sunlight shines unevenly Upon the floating water and the swan. His neck receives the lovely force we see Along its curving back like cream chiffon In candlelight. He moves away from west To east just while the sun is...
