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,...
by phillipw | May 3, 2025 | WH, WO
He Declaimed Poetry “What sought they thus afar?” The places that my father knew are gone — Or worse. They change to billboard ads of hype Though he was looking farther up, upon The realms that matter . . . to some archetype About the death of beauty that...
by phillipw | Mar 12, 2025 | DO, WH
Donald, the Man Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem For reasons that I do not understand, Society requires that men should show Themselves quite plain in clothes, not seem too grand. I think this...
by phillipw | Mar 6, 2025 | BR, CA, MA, WH
Miracle of Modern Medicine and Demonic Itching It crept along inside her like a long- Lost angel Jesus couldn’t cure. The wretch At worst had withered wings and lost its song. Inside her breast the devil couldn’t stretch And couldn’t fledge its arrows. They could...
