by phillipw | Jun 1, 2021 | CI, CO, HE, TH, VE
“Resistance to Government,” the Tract that Wrested India from Britain and Led Martin Luther King, Jr., to the Lincoln Memorial Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Maine A natural Sabbath brings a...
by phillipw | May 26, 2021 | CH, ST, TH
Dixieland Death in the Shenandoah I sleep each night with Charles in my bed. Not quite the whole of Charles’, but his hair Lies underneath my pillow near my head And not so near my heart. A sad affair You might well think, and that is true, except A beauty lingers...
by phillipw | Apr 12, 2021 | ME, PS, SA, SE, TH
Saint Sebastian Sans the Sacred Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Most memories cannot be kept close, not near, Not near enough to scar, unless the scar Is of a tribal kind gouged in by fear Appearing...
by phillipw | Mar 31, 2021 | CH, GA, ST, TH, WO
The Brief Gate into Ecstasy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He raised his hands and wrists to Christ and all The world was changed. The evening worship paused As if no God existed. I, like...
by phillipw | Mar 27, 2021 | PA, TH
Wakes and Contrails Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Away, Far, far behind, is all that they can say. ~ Arthur Hugh Clough, “Where Lies...
by phillipw | Mar 19, 2021 | CR, LO, QU, SE, TH
Queen Mary Had Only a Tumor as her Phantom Pregnancy We all know what the phoenix is about. It glories in the flame like Dido burned Upon that throne. That passion has a clout. It has its flame, it is the flame, flame turned Upon itself, flame causing us to die And...
