by phillipw | Feb 2, 2026 | UN
Moons and Hermits Have No Wings The scent and color Of pale wistaria seems Distant from the moon. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden The moth has now rejected petals of The cherry tree and wants instead a sky With evening crescent moon. Desire and love Are far...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2026 | AN, AR, BO, UN
Do angels have some hair beneath the arm? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Do angels have some hair beneath the arm Or wing? If so, just where? Beneath the wing Would make the hairs seem heavenly. No...
by phillipw | Dec 28, 2025 | UN
The Escapeless Religion Forget about the pleasantness of love. You know the loving that hearts mean when they Are hopeless, holding dreaminess above The hormones that produce escapeless sway, Those hormones like addiction. You adhere To it as if hot heroin,...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized
Night in a D.C. Suburb and Pressed Against a Car by a Drug Addict Flowers of rapeseed fields… No whale approaches. Darkness Spreads over the sea. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2025 | AP, CU, RO, SE, UN
Love, the Little God Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When love, that little god, is worshiped, he (Or she, not they) hits back with arrows tipped With gold or lead. The gold tips set you free To love the...
