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...
by phillipw | Oct 14, 2025 | HA, RO, UN
Decades Later in an Unstained Bed Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dream erupted in the morning night As nightdreams do. It brought with it a beast, A simulacrum made to give a fright. So long...
by phillipw | Sep 8, 2025 | DO, LO, UN, Uncategorized
Or Tied to the Mast You know the meaning of the paradise Of love. You sailed there with the ocean realm Around it, deep. You lost the map that eyes Provided, Paul’s or Pearl’s. The wheel and helm Were yours—you thought. Since heart sailed there before,...
