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...
by phillipw | Jun 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Lyric Greece: a Sonnet Sequence Part Two Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Daedalus and Icarus Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem...
by phillipw | Jun 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Lyric Greece: a Sonnet Sequence Part One Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse The first reader of “Lyric Greece” (a scientist, novelist, and poet) said he was...
by phillipw | May 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Encased in Silk — a Sonnet Sequence introduced by a Villanelle En Liberté Conditionnelle “La parole nous été donnée pour déguiser notre pensée.” [“We were given speech to hide our thoughts.” ~ Talleyrand] Napoleon reckoned Talleyrand was...
