by phillipw | Aug 30, 2026 | ME, PS, TH
Yum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You take the couch. The doctor draws out truth. Your truth turns out to be a universe Of hiding guts, your viscera, uncouth Like sewers clogged, a clot of devils,...
by phillipw | Aug 14, 2026 | CR, SU, TH
A Universal Indian Fate Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Please let me sing when I am dead above My body. Let me hover there in song And sing above the little shread of love That flesh remembers as I...
by phillipw | Jun 27, 2026 | EM, HE, TH, WA, WH
Eyes for Seeing The curse, the pang with which they died, Had never passed away; I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor lift them up to pray. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Their eyes still stare through death that you and I Cannot...
by phillipw | May 25, 2026 | CO, MA, ON, PE, SE, TE, TH
Him to Hymn Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “I am driven to a fine extremity; this limb of mine is mine own.” ~ Merry Wives of Windsor, III, sc. 5 His Him parts cause the hymn. You...
by phillipw | Apr 22, 2026 | AE, AP, BE, MI, PR, TH
Apasra Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I met Miss Universe one night. Online The pics of her are not as beautiful As she herself was. She deserved a shrine. A royal woman she was dutiful About...
by phillipw | Jan 26, 2026 | AL, DI, IG, KN, SC, TH
The Crannied Wall Without God Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The sun would scorch, but what if there is no One there to suffer? Sunsets stun away The light, yet what if no one sees that glow? Electron...
