by phillipw | Jun 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Haiku Aims at Contemplation A “person” like Caligula or Trump Might want his spaces filled with gold (or gilt On everything), turn elegance to dump Of tastelessness and never know core guilt. He thinks that poetry is lyrics from A rock song, if he thinks at all....
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2025 | PO, TR, Uncategorized
“rule them with a rod of iron” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem FIRST WITCH Where the place? SECOND WITCH Upon the heath. The mistiness that many readers think That poets and their mountains should...
by phillipw | Jun 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
“the quiet of a loving eye” ~ Lord Byron In Zen’s “the quiet of a loving eye” The stress is on the quiet. Loving slips To second place or lower. In the sky Of Zen the moon sails silent, though love’s hips Are in its realm. A haiku doesn’t see The lips of geishas...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2025 | AE, BU, ES, IM, SA, Uncategorized
Sabi and “Kubla Khan” Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “withered the health and the spirits of his bride” ~ Edgar Allen Poe, “The Oval Portrait” The poet left his lines unfinished—and Unfinished it...
by phillipw | Jun 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
What Escapes Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem It’s not so much a thought that disappeared Before you caught it, like a butterfly That flew away, or like a love that sheered Away, that...
by phillipw | Jun 12, 2025 | RE, SO, Uncategorized
Sonnets as Black Holes with Auras Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. ~...
