by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Gate to Lucifer’s Paradise Lighting one candle With another man’s candle˸ An evening in spring. ~ Buson Instead of all those candles at the Gate’s Love Feast, white wax, flamed wicks among the fruit, And challah bread implying mystic states (Agape love), I spied a...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
A Greedy Black Hole Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.” ~ William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act I, scene 1 She often whined to ears beside...
by phillipw | Oct 26, 2025 | BR, DO, FL, IV, LO, PH, RO, SI, SU, TI, TO, Uncategorized, WE, WO
Lone Ranger Sunshine Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Some buttered beams of light assured him that His world was not just treacly tombstone jewels. The shafts were shining from a cowboy hat Of boyhood...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
Indivisible Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In Eastern though a person’s loneliness Is linked with all the creatures in the world. Denying this just worsens loneliness. Your loneliness means you are...
by phillipw | Oct 23, 2025 | CH, GA, JI, KI, KY, RO, SC, SE, ST, UN, Uncategorized
G., C., A., and G. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He has an echo bone inside his chest. It sends its slight reverberations when His heart remembers, with a slight arrest Of breathing, kisses in...
by phillipw | Oct 22, 2025 | BI, FA, HU, Uncategorized
“New Year’s Day”; and “Poet Paradox Pushes away Opposition”—Two Unrelated Sonnets This is the 4,000th post of sonnets by Phillip Whidden on this website. Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem New Year’s Day...
