by phillipw | Jul 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Don’t let the silent moment pass. Reach out And grab it, with the fist your mind can make. Reach deep and seize time. Hold it. Make it shout Its sermon or its...
by phillipw | Jun 29, 2024 | AM, Uncategorized
Lacrimae Rerum Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “Lacrimae rerum” (“tears of things”) ~ Virgil, The Aeneid, Book I, line 462 “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity”; and “The main...
by phillipw | Jun 28, 2024 | Uncategorized
Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? ~ Jeremiah 17: 9 If all our poetry could face the stars, Would that cause roots of...
by phillipw | Jun 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Ultimate Dome-like Ceiling Called Mendelssohn’s Melody Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto in E Minor, II. Andante (youtube.com) The apogee of music came when two Men...
by phillipw | Jun 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
A Rejection of Stigmata Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The peony in April sun feels light Upon its petals. That is shining weight Unfelt. The pink embraces springtime, slight As...
by phillipw | Jun 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Cut Out My Shadow; Cut Out My Shadow Revisited — Two sonnets paired “Cut out my shadow.” ~ Lorca, “Song of the Barren Orange Tree” (“Canción del Naranjo seco”) Some readers want each sonnet to omit The truth. They want a shadowless report On life. They do not...
