by phillipw | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
A Black and Curly Male Head Leads I like this image since it shows he cares More for his lyre than for his wife. He holds It forward. Clearly future unsung airs And poetry, as lovely as the folds In robes behind him and the graceful wife, Are more important than the...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Stunned, Stung with Esthetic Tears “When it reaches Alexandria, poetry comes in out of the sun, retires to the library . . . And so it [poetry] survives in a world where the vulgar tongue is not Greek.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 19 At Florida Technological U...
by phillipw | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Scorn “Enargeîs is the technical term ‘for divine epiphany: a word that contains the dazzle of “white,” argós, which comes to designate a pure, unquestionable “conspicuous-ness” ’ ”. ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 19 I wonder if perhaps we moderns know This...
by phillipw | Apr 15, 2020 | AE, BE, ES, Uncategorized
Ancient Art “the ancients had not that conception of beauty separated from goodness which forms the basis and aim of aesthetics in our time” ~ Leo Tolstoy A moral pillar rises from the base Of ancient poetry and art. The stone Is hard and white. It helps...
by phillipw | Apr 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Poetry Down to Earth The picture shows the severed head and neck Of Orpheus beside a stream. No doubt https://artaccordingtome.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/100_0665.jpg Eyes being closed implies this muscled wreck Of pulsings struggled, suffered, and cried out While...
by phillipw | Apr 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Golden Opposite of Grave Beauty The Buddhist, Yuezun, saw light like gold Above the blistering sands. The desert blight Of Taklamakan gained no stranglehold On shimmering beauty. There above cliff height A thousand golden Buddhas sang and danced With heavenly maids,...
