by phillipw | Jan 14, 2025 | FE, MA, Uncategorized
Curves with Weight “and Adam knew Eve” Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pixabay The beauty in a woman shows the etch Of curves. Those hips are not just there as on That early man. They forced the Christ to stretch Them in His universe at...
by phillipw | Dec 31, 2024 | Uncategorized
“The silent stars go by” ~ Phillips Brooks The stars are silent, always silent, though If one soars through another auraed star, A roar must sound. Their particles must go Right through coronas. Each hot haar must scar The other but the silence, once profound, Turns...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Thorny, Growing Things Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A sonnet wants to go somewhere, not just Within itself. It travels in its thought And themes. It wants a wider wanderlust Perhaps of...
by phillipw | Dec 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Grasping Your Soil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The acrid root of love has gilding on It. Wrinkles on it are not hidden by The gold. They look like shrivels that are drawn By greed. ...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Though ’Twere 10,000 Waves Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If you were near a distant loch, away The miles from England where I dream of you, Dream daydreams of the hair on you, Strathspey Between us,...
by phillipw | Dec 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
Olympus and Mount Helicon Inside Us Always Our singing starts when mind and heart awake A pen or tongue. The singing might be notes Or words, composer or the poet. Blake Or Brahms begins inside us. Singing floats Out from our fingers or our mouths. The lips Then...
