by phillipw | Sep 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
White, White, White “For whatsoever is born of God overcometh” He wore a diadem of frost, a ring Of snowstorm. Both of them protected from The little thing called love. They meant he’d cling To more important things. To overcome The little trash of love a...
by phillipw | Sep 3, 2024 | DE, Uncategorized
Gravity Bends Galaxies’ Light Even on Curly Black Hair Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Because you slipped forever into death, A sleep forever darker than mere sleep, An ebony more black than stone, no...
by phillipw | Aug 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The tears from cavern ice spears slide down, more Like snow, that brief. The entrance where they drip As saltless weeping is like melting hoar Frost caused by...
by phillipw | Aug 27, 2024 | Uncategorized
Like Laocoön and his Offspring Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He sculpts a statue where the brow of stone Is filled with something more than words or lines, Much more than marble poetry, more groan Than...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2024 | PA, Uncategorized
Paradox of Coleridge’s Liberty “the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.” ~Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” “Art submits itself to law in order that freedom may be brought out by contrast.” ~...
by phillipw | Aug 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
Henry David Thoreau as an American Philosopher on Poetry Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “As naturally as an oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, the man bears a poem, spoken or done.” ~...
