by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Woman Contributed Cleanliness but Not What He Craved Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You are like a Delphic Sibyl — but made Of marble like the temple pillars. You Are like a moveless oracle of jade,...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Whacko Mum, the Desired Dementia Inspired by Sylvia Plath’s “Morning in the Hospital Solarium,” classified as part of her juvenilia and by the actual experience of the wife of Alan in the sonnet. “hoping for some incredible dark man To assault the scene and make...
by phillipw | Dec 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Parallax Perspective Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Seen railroad tracks converge but never meet. Their logic, unavoidable, still fails. Philosophers of love leave incomplete The definition. Thought...
by phillipw | Dec 4, 2025 | FR, LO, Uncategorized
Bulging Truth Do not allow a man to enter through Your private door, not even if you know Him well as Christ friend Peter knew. Christ knew Him well, though not quite well enough to know That he alone would swear he did not Know Jesus. That of course was...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gods as Valentine-ish Charybdis Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Greek and Roman gods know truer truths Than Plato and his lot. Gods love the tight, Hot holes they hump for pleasure. They love...
by phillipw | Dec 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Certitude in Stony Sockets Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Greek and Roman statues, not the late Ones, stare so certain first because the truth Fills up their marble and their bronze. They hate Decay...
