by phillipw | Apr 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Watson & Crick, Thank God At any moment revelation comes Perhaps not like a flash of light that blinds And leaves us prostrate on the road. Life’s crumbs Are not all; often though they fill our minds As if sublimity does not exist. Yet even crumbs might do the...
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...
