by phillipw | Apr 18, 2025 | BR, HE, MA, WE
Till B-r-e-a-d-t-h Do Us Part A tinsel throne is what the world provides For women on each wedding day. While they Are dressed for it in satin silk, the brides Are treated like a princess’s bouquet Held up for admiration. But then life Takes over. Mother of...
by phillipw | Oct 1, 2024 | CH, RO, ST, WE
All Muddled Up as if a Nightmare, Us Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem In dreamland you returned to me from death. Because our dreams are strange, strange, strange without Compassion, colorless as Arctic...
by phillipw | Aug 26, 2021 | GA, JA, MA, WE
Wesley Marley Had the Third Largest Private Collection of Jazz Recordings in the World and Played Them on a Huge Stereophonic Sound System He knew a charismatic peace inside His mother’s living room and in between The ganging giant speakers there beside His shoulders...
by phillipw | Apr 30, 2021 | OX, PA, ST, WE
Disclosure of Might in Slackness “The tree manifests the bodily power of the wind; The wave exhibits the spiritual nature of the moon.” The tree is strong but not quite strong enough. Its lack of strength unveils the power of wind. This tree thus weak reveals that...
by phillipw | Nov 11, 2020 | AR, CH, DE, MO, PA, ST, WE
Painting as False Prophet in Acrylic Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The image in the bedroom looks out through The window, artwork gazing out As if a seer. It does not see blue Of...
by phillipw | Jul 28, 2020 | BR, CO, PO, ST, TE, WE
Dagger-like and Sword-like Will Notwithstanding The tears do not comply with lines in skin. They course along outside the ditches, rude Though silent in belligerence. These thin Trails cannot hold the pain when it is skewed Away from tracks that time has dug. ...
