by phillipw | Nov 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
Paired sonnets ‘“Instant Gratification Isn’t Quick Enough”’ ~ attributed to a Dollywood starlet/harlot’ and “Atlantics and Pacifics Stacked on Top of One Another”’ Decide upon the way that you will drown. Decide to drown in knowledge and in books And in this AI age...
by phillipw | Nov 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bletchley Betrayer Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The moon is like a sickle reptile found In one of Satan’s prayerbooks, Books of Hours, Books of spells. The sickle makes no sound, A hiss unworthy...
by phillipw | Nov 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
di Chirico’s “Conversation Among the Ruins”: Courtly Love in the Twentieth Century after Freud For once a male paints woman, man and hills But showing not her body or her face, Not even showing flanks and butt for thrills Of drooling eyes. A platform in a space...
by phillipw | Nov 13, 2025 | ME, Uncategorized
Prayerbooks, Missals and Books of Hours Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The monks had visions they were putting wings Of angels in their quills. The page of gold; Sweet lapis lazuli; vermillion . . ....
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Crippled Musical Moments Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Forget the spiralling melody, lark In ever rising circles in the day. Remember, though, the mourning in the dark Of nightingales. Their broken...
by phillipw | Nov 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
And She Didn’t Have a Clue about His Super Seed They walked together through a cityscape, A present-day, a Tuesday city, towers Of Wednesday windows…not a pretty scape Of Tidal Basin cherry trees and flowers, But not bizarre, surrealistic, awed Like toadstool...
