by phillipw | Jul 11, 2021 | AL, AP, Uncategorized
Lack of Olive Oil for Cooking and Cleaning Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Alexander’s men learned they were out Of olive oil, or nearly out, they stopped. They halted. They began to soldier...
by phillipw | May 25, 2021 | CH, Uncategorized
I Don’t Need Charitable Thoughts from Other Men after Shopping in Oxfam Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For Henry Who doesn’t like a bargain and great style In dressing? Well, perhaps most men don’t...
by phillipw | May 13, 2021 | NE, Uncategorized
Ceaseless Becoming Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Things do not begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop; there is simply ceaseless becoming.” R. H. Blyth For Bonnie...
by phillipw | Apr 20, 2021 | BI, HU, OS, PH, Uncategorized, WH, WI
Hyperthymesia, , William Louis Hunter V, SRA Reading Lab, and Oscar Wilde Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bill is in the white cardigan. I’m in the dark sweater in the center. My boyhood...
by phillipw | Apr 19, 2021 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
Both Sad and Calm On the back of a post card I quoted from The Queen of the Damned: “The morning would come and he would be sad but calm.” Both sad and calm cathedral beauties are. The picture on the card of Salisbury glows With stillness. It was taken from...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Present and Past When walking through the white rows of the blooms Behind my bungalow, I see the sgùrr [1] Across the Great Rift Valley. In my rooms I have my huddled books. No smell of myrrh Is brought to breathing from those pages, yet They resurrect the...
