by phillipw | Dec 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Masterful Music modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If I were forced … rubato-like … to choose, I’d scrap the faster movements, salvage slow, I lento, largo… e … grave...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2020 | LO, RO, SE, Uncategorized, WR
Obliterations A world can disappear. If it is one That you created on the purity Of pages white as Jesus’ diamond sun, This world can shrink to an obscurity Wiped out by fact. Another world you built Upon the shock of beauty from blue eyes A woman...
by phillipw | Aug 9, 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. II Back in Bleu Paris 19 Mixing It “Come, dear great soul, you are awaited, you Are...
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...
