by phillipw | Oct 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Know Thyself Alone Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The dream was heaving like a nightmare, more Like being drowned beneath an iceberg set To sail forever where there is no shove. The dream was like...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Bitter Brown Sugar Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you could twirl his heart, you would, or spin It like a moon knocked out of orbit, wound It in the process like an angel’s sin Beside the throne of...
by phillipw | Oct 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
With Hair as Curly as a Fugue Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Singing is a lover’s thing.” ~ Saint Augustine A face more beautiful than choiring songs, More beautiful than singing in the choir, A...
by phillipw | Oct 16, 2025 | LO, RO, UN, Uncategorized
Night in a D.C. Suburb and Pressed Against a Car by a Drug Addict Flowers of rapeseed fields… No whale approaches. Darkness Spreads over the sea. ~ Buson [Englished by Phillip Whidden] A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it...
by phillipw | Oct 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Deeper than Mercutio’s Well Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When love has shallows, think about the hope Of depths. They matter more and we can find Them if we wait. The shores of phalarope And wading...
by phillipw | Oct 13, 2025 | LO, RO, Uncategorized
Plumbing Love He thinks no Scottish loch can reach as far As love or be as deep, though deep enough For monsters, deep enough because of scar Gouged out by deeper ice that made this clough Before the glacier went away. The death Of love, the life of love wait...
