by phillipw | May 25, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Last Rose of December The last rose open looks up towards the sky. The sky does not look down but only spreads Itself. The flower unspeaking asks for dry December breezes. Fallen, other heads Speak silently from death and ground to say The coolness...
by phillipw | May 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem He spent too many winter evenings with Her, drinking tea and cocoa at the best. The bedroom moments proved the myth Of marriage...
by phillipw | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
DIRT Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The wind blew towards me on my back. It hissed, “The past is there. It never goes away.” Those deaths are there. That time those two lips kissed Your mouth and...
by phillipw | May 23, 2024 | Uncategorized
Father and Son Untouching Orbits Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem . I knew my father only in two parts Of life (his life), his summer and his fall. His spring was long before me. Both our hearts Had...
by phillipw | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Musica Universalis The music of the ancient earth is not The music of the spheres. It is instead The sound of earthquakes and volcanoes, hot Bing Videos With lava and destruction. Hear the dread In seal pups when a killer whale appears. The music is of...
by phillipw | May 21, 2024 | BA, Uncategorized
Rudolph Nureyev and Dame Joan Fonteyne Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Bing Videos The arts endeavor lifting high The heart in beauty or in anger, woe Or joy as though a wizard with a sly Baton is waving...