by phillipw | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Some readers may find parts of this sonnet sequence about Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine offensive. If you think you may be offended, please do not read it. Thanks. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem...
by phillipw | Aug 4, 2020 | BE, EA, LI, MU, OR, PH, PO, SO, Uncategorized
Initiations “Every word was once a poem” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, “The Poet” “A single letter was a matter of life and death.” ~ Anne Michaels The alphabets came late, like virgins to A wedding feast. The clauses, words, and grunts Of love were...
by phillipw | Jul 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Robotic Super Zero That killing machine, Achilles, hero Extraordinaire, was worshiped by the men Of old who didn’t work out that zero Was Zeus’s son’s level of courage. When A boy is made invulnerable by Divinities (except for that one heel), Then maybe Greeks...
by phillipw | Jul 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Enough Trouble Caused When we began to put the gods in myth And language of the poets, transcendence Died. This literature became the smith That pounded, flat, godly ascendance To make them jewellery foil for our minds. They used to be so coolly far above Us that...
by phillipw | Jun 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
I Have Looked upon the Face of Jolliness The ancient Greeks in poetry were lewd As limericks, playful, silly as a stand Up joker on a comic’s platform, rude And crude, yep, far more rude than Russell Brand. Emitted from these ancient rhythmic throats Were poems...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2020 | IN, PH, PO, Uncategorized
Brain Matter or Bone Marrow Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse “Stefan Büttner (‘Inspiration and Inspired Poets in Plato’s Dialogues’) acknowledges the frequency with which Plato accepts the possibility of inspiration and admires its...
