by phillipw | May 29, 2025 | AE, AR, PO, Uncategorized
“What Is the Price of Those Chintz Curtains?” For most, true poetry seems too like art, Those other arts. The artifice is not What weakens it. They don’t object to heart In verse. The problem is that it is nought (Or less than) in its power to make things change...
by phillipw | May 28, 2025 | AB, MU, NO, Uncategorized
Hard Produces Hard and Soft The poet is just plain peculiar if He opposes cosmic law. Unique Is what that law requires. If there’s a whiff Of uniformity, a tiny tweak Is DNA-deployed. This law insists On freaks. No perfect copy is allowed. There always have...
by phillipw | May 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
Consequential Contradiction Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Spring’s wind has disappeared. The petals fall, Continue falling, pink in mystery Still falling. Mystery still sends its call. The abbot...
by phillipw | May 26, 2025 | SU, Uncategorized
Flouting Celestial Spheres Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Wherever waters are, wherever their Waves flow, the sun strikes towards their surface, towards Their depths. The moon and...
by phillipw | May 24, 2025 | BR, FL, Uncategorized
Late Spring and Early Autumn Before palmettos flourish out in flower (In starburst blooms above the sand below), The coral-colored citrus has its hour In globes like giant orange pearls on show In Florida. They hardly seem to be Within the same dimension,...
by phillipw | May 23, 2025 | BU, EN, EY, SA, Ta, TR, Uncategorized, ZE
Zen and Lucas Samaras’s Inner Mirror Cube Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Note: If you step into this cube and the entry door is then closed, you will understand this sonnet… and perhaps much else about...
