by phillipw | Nov 11, 2025 | DO, TR, Uncategorized, WH
Boy’s Daydreams Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem If Don had toys, they wouldn’t be those ships In bottles. Toys for him would not be horse Or soldier, or those game computer chips Of...
by phillipw | Oct 29, 2025 | BR, CO, DE, DI, MA, WH
Stepping Into the Ambulance that Would Take Her to the Thames Valley Hospice Margaret Arbuckle Paterson Graham Whidden When I love thee not, Chaos is come again. ~ Shakespeare, Othello “Courage is life, living. Life is change; change is suffering; the will to...
by phillipw | Oct 12, 2025 | CO, PH, SE, WH
http://www.phillipwhidden.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Phillip-and-Shakespeare-sonnets-WhatsApp-Video-2025-08-19-at-22.14.39_23e1182e.mp4 Someone Like the Christ Who Cleansed the Temple Speaks from the Tomb When I am gone, dead gone, have left behind My scribblings,...
by phillipw | Sep 15, 2025 | EL, SA, WH
The Scuttlebutt Door Prophecy Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem At least Saint Ellen only held a book Aloft, impossibly, and didn’t claim To feel her total quaking body shook By angel penetrations. In this...
by phillipw | Aug 29, 2025 | BO, BR, CH, FL, HE, WH, WO
PerpetualPerpetualPerpetualPerpetual Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem “little unremembered acts of kindness and love” ~ William Wordsworth The blessing of the morning sun on lochs And bens is like a...
by phillipw | Aug 2, 2025 | LE, LO, MA, PA, SH, WH
Shiva Mahadeva Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The warrior, Mahadeva, holds his love Upon his thighs, and nearby on a pond The lotuses bloom, pink. Nearby, above Them in a Hindu heaven space,...
