by phillipw | Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The First Sonnet Sequence in English: Anne Locke’s “A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner” It makes perverted sense that first of all This sonnet sequence is a set of pleas Pathetic as confession in a crawl Up Roman steps, the grovelling done on knees And in each sicko...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Team of Losers Decided to Destroy the Rules Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Modernists implied a doctrine from Not paradox but contradiction: Form {“Form is emptiness” ~ Takuan} Is...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2025 | KN, PH, RE, SE, Uncategorized, WI
Behold, I Give You One COMMANDMENT* LOVE FIRST THYSELF. Forget about the love Of God and others; thinkers everywhere Have reached this one conclusion. Far above Religions, which are every one a snare, Decry this love. This first rule first implies, As streams...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Weeping Willow or Burning Bush Yield to the willow The loathing, all the desire Of your inmost heart. ~ Basho The various religions posit you Can win with weakness. It is just a strength Dressed up as yielding, either with a view Towards God (in Islam) or in...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Spectrum of Orthodoxy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem One blush of peonies comes out as pink, A pink Jehovah dreamed of long ago. It flourished there in eons. Then a chink In his subconscious...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Eight Legs Can Never Seem Completely Parallel, Especially with a Person with a Soul Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The octopus lives trapped inside a tank, That life a brief one at its best. No...
