by phillipw | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Siegfried and Wilfred Composing Poetry at Craiglockhart Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Margaret Since music always has a blackness set Around it and beyond, its notes are gold Encased in something...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wide-eyed Fur among the Roses A spoiled westerner decided he Would have a restaurant meal delivered to His home, a spicy Indian one with ghee Or maybe just a pizza baked with goo All over it. A speeding senseless van Ate up the street and killed my Bene,...
by phillipw | Jul 31, 2022 | Uncategorized
We Break the Law Together We break the law together for the sake Of beauty. Beauty turns our sin to love. The love is sacred and is full of ache And space, yes constellations far above Mere moons and decalogues. We break the law Because the body and the soul...
by phillipw | Jul 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dayspring The morning moon is setting. It is still And not. The light is light and fading but Not fading. Dawn is hovering in the chill Of lunar death that is not death. Life is cut From death as if a sliver of a far Lost moon, though cryogenic in...
by phillipw | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ravishing Poetry True poetry is not just beauties, thoughts Or feelings. It is something other, more. It listens more like complicated knots Awaiting Alexanders for its roar To be released. The poem, once unloosed Inside the non-Platonic cavern of...
by phillipw | May 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Immaculate Conception Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Though nature hovers in our minds and spans The spaces far beyond the Hubble eye, Though poetry, a telescope that scans The universe, can take...
