by phillipw | May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Aloof and Regal in Their Snow Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Greek mountains seem to jostle up against Each other. They do not. When seen afar Their ranges, stacked up, seem to look condensed And...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Gulab, Plato, Moses, the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammad I met a man who, just as silly in His thinking as is Plato when he talks On poetry (who claims that it is sin And godly both at once and therefore balks At being logical), was all mixed up. This Eastern man denied...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Disc World: Soapstone Discs Found Thousands of Years Later in a Dried Up Watercourse Millennia ago, before CDs And DVDs, artistic discs were made In India with carved motifs to please Their owners. Birds were set there in a braid With animals around the edges. Bloom...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Royal Daydreams Far back in sultry climates of the past, The humid distances of time, a prince Might have a childish inkling of the vast Preoccupations of a king, might wince At thoughts of heads that he would lop off for The sake of empire, and might understand In...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
His Majesty in Bed Like a Stalagmite of Flame The mother dreams before his birth. She dreams That she prefers to note her face as seen Within the polished and the sharpened gleams Upon a sword—not a mirror. This queen Foresees from this that he will be a king Of...
by phillipw | Apr 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Like a Voice from the Cave of Delphi “S[ocrates; known as Suqrat in Muslim literature] professes to be dismayed to find that the poets whom he questioned were quite incapable of explaining the meaning of their poetry, and concludes that they compose not wisdom …...
