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...
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...
