by phillipw | Sep 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Resonating Through The part of truth that matters is not part, But whole. A part of truth is goodness, yet That’s like a lovely body lacking heart, More like a corpse, a mango seeping blet. If truth has beauty in it, that is not Enough, the way that...
by phillipw | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
“soft, gentle and low” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The time of Lear, a darkness like the piths Of blackness in the innards of those oaks Unopened for four hundred years, the myths He lived in...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Glass Scratching Repeatedly on Glass Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Modernists conspired for music, art And poetry to be reduced right down, Reduced from evening primrose to a fart, Reduced till all...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2025 | CO, NE, TW, Uncategorized
“And the fiery heart of youth” I dreamed I had a twin up north, more twin Than not, not quite conjoined but closely same, Identical in soul, New England spin Inside us both. A pheasant’s breast aflame With afternoon’s Connecticut light rays Revealed this relative...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
He Wishes for the Dreams of Heaven Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem His mistiness in thought has changed to brass, Chinese the heartlessness, more heartless like The universe. What once had been like...
by phillipw | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Harmina Burana She met composer Orff before she woke This morning. It was he her nightmare said. This nightmare man seemed quite a clashing bloke With pizza skin and pimples, nosely spread Across his modern music mug. She tried Escaping, as one does,...
