by phillipw | Mar 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Day before the Great God’s Sabbath Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “By meer playing go to Heaven” ~ Henry Vaughan (April 17, 1621 – April 23, 1695) My brothers, cousins (I, too) went...
by phillipw | Mar 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
Stalking My Prospero does not need Plato’s thought Or Jesus’s. No Buddha is required. My cat ignores the mouse that he just caught, Walks past it where it, crumpled, lies expired, Ignores it since it isn’t any fun Once crushed. It isn’t that he...
by phillipw | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
Small Carved Ivory Spheres Inside of Small Carved Ivory Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I’m fearful for I’m coming to the last Crammed pages in my last book by the man Who long...
by phillipw | Mar 9, 2024 | FI, Uncategorized
Remember Life and Death Are Indivisible — and That Means One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem First poems — and the last — let each one seize. If it’s the first, make sure...
by phillipw | Mar 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Secular Satori Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “a chance to live in the eternal world now, in ‘Eternity’s glad sunrise.’ ” R. H. Blyth, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics p....
by phillipw | Mar 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Fringe Benefits I Called Him for the White Fuzz Decorations on the Edges of Black Ears Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In garden ground there just behind my house Is where we buried Bene in a box...
