by phillipw | Aug 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
God was Made for Michaelangelo to Carve in his Closet God never smiles. God never weeps. In art God waits in Time outside of time, that Time We call Eternity. God does not have a heart In sculpture. God never does chat time. God does not do a FaceTime session or A...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | Uncategorized
Images, Images, Images Help Us Forget the Holocaust Today we cannot pity long ago Lost soldiers, lost Patroklus, Lancelot Or stake-burned saints. We simply do not know A way to do that since we now are caught Up willy nilly in the onslaught on Our screens. We see...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | GR, ST, Uncategorized
The Motto at Dephi Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Escape the feudal clamps upon your soul, The Marxist ones in Cuba, moneyed ones At Mar a Lago. Leave your begging bowl If you are like the...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | CO, PO, SA, Uncategorized
Self-inducing Cyphers Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Great lines not self-fulfilled will seldom come. If lines to do not fulfill themselves, no life Will fill them. Circumstance may make them...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
When East Melds West Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Eastern Realms of Zen want light to be The goal, satori’s glow, Enlightenment. They want the temple nuns and monks to see The Bodhi in...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2025 | DR, NI, SE, Uncategorized
Against the Tide Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He always had an undertow beneath His skin, but as in nightmares he did not Know what it meant. It was like a sheath Around his member holding...
