by phillipw | May 17, 2020 | AD, DE, Ta
Beautiful Beyond Your Lips Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem An apple high above, up on a limb Where dawn can see it earlier than you Will ever know, awaits. The tree may brim With other fruit but still...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | IG, MI, SP, Ta
Pathetic Skin, Flesh, “Brain” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Today already, twice, I’ve seen two pics Of tattoos with dickhead spelling mistakes. One says . . . “Musle Healing.” The dopy dicks Who...
by phillipw | May 6, 2020 | EL, JU, MA, MO, Ta
Cleopatras Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Queen of Egypt, Cleopatra, won The love of Roman rulers. Mythic in Her force to ravish first the older one And then seduce the younger man,...
by phillipw | Jan 8, 2020 | Ta
Madame de la Châtre, Ally of the Duc d’Orleans “Her virtue wasn’t of the sort that men Found depressing.” In the oil portrait by Vigée Le Brun no hint of Magdalene The sinner smears the oils. No winking, sly Insinuation that madame was like The bishop of Autun,...
by phillipw | Dec 27, 2019 | Ta, VU
Chenille On trips to Georgia mother bought chenille. Swirling counterpanes, curves of peacock tails, Are what come back to me. The ground was “real Bright blue.” She meant enough like neon, trails Of darker cotton fur for spread-tail sweeps...
by phillipw | Dec 16, 2019 | Ta
Victor “and he limped like the devil himself” ~ Victor Hugo This spitefulness arises in a man When meeting someone larger than himself, When he encounters someone greater than His own capacities; makes him an elf— Or Quasimodo—in comparison, But...
